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Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician.He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylum Records' artists that they became known as Asylum's de facto house band, [2] as those artists became iconic singer-songwriters of the 1970s.
Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music. Bass guitarists provide the low-pitched basslines and bass runs in many different styles of music ranging from rock and metal to blues and jazz. Bassists also use the bass guitar as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock ...
CMJ New Music called Watt a "seminal post-punk bass player". [3] Readers of NME voted Mike Watt one of the "40 Greatest Bassists of All Time" [4] and LA Weekly awarded him the number six spot in "The 20 Best Bassists of All Time". [5] In November 2008, Watt received the Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award, presented by Flea. [6]
Join us, then, on Pino’s 65th birthday, as we list the songs that prove he is a true bass genius. Pino Palladino, Roger Daltrey, and Zak Starkey of The Who perform at Arena at Gwinnett Center on ...
1965: Bass, Bass, Bass (re-issued in 1975 as the Stamps Quartet Present Their Dynamic Bass) 1968: The Many Moods of the Illustrious J. D. Sumner; 1969: The Heart of a Man (re-issued in 1982 as The Masters V Present Their Majestic Bass, J. D. Sumner) 1972: The Way It Sounds Down Low; 1984: Thank God for Kids; 1985: An American Trilogy
It contained covers of Yes songs, performed by artists such as Jon Davison, Patrick Moraz, Steve Porcaro, Steve Hackett, Tony Kaye, Dweezil Zappa and Candice Night. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 18th greatest bass player of all time. [68]
Writing in The Sunday Times in 2008, Dan Cairns had suggested: "many consider him to be one of the greatest bass players of all time." [43] Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick said, "There was a time when Jack Bruce was synonymous with the bass guitar in rock history, when he was widely revered as the best there was on four strings."
The bass singing voice has a vocal range that lies around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E 2 –E 4). [1] As with the contralto singing voice being the rarest female voice type, the bass voice is the rarest for males, and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. [2]