Walter “Shep” Cooke, the bass player for one of Tucson’s most promising 1960s bands and a member of Linda Ronstadt’s Stone Poneys band that launched her national career, died early Monday ...

Alongside Frank Zappa, Scott Thunes became a vital part of the genius innovator’s greatest work but has always kept the value ...

“But bass players aren't supposed to have ideas; they're supposed to be functionaries. If you're a bass player in a rock band, you are by definition a moron – because you are doing nothing except what ...

With roots in a Mount Vernon fife and drum corps band that once marched on King Street in the George Washington’s Birthday Parade, Bryan Howard, now the bass player of the rock band “Cracker ...

During the concert’s latter half, the bandleader welcomed 12-year-old guitar prodigy, Saxon Weiss, to riff on the Little Milton original, turned Jerry Garcia Band-associated cover ...

I can see this bass –– while not exactly ‘affordable' –– being a go-to for function band players who need to cover a lot of stylistic mileage. Similarly though, it’s got the ammo required for funk and ...

In fact, some steal the spotlight, and a handful even lead the band! These are the bass virtuosos who play to the beat of their own sound, boasting a unique style, technique, and musical dialect. So, ...

Along the way, he’d absorbed the ideas that players like Paul McCartney introduced in the days of Swinging London, freeing the bass to roam ... But whether the band was somersaulting through ...