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The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. 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 ...
These include friends and family of the group, the band's entourage, and numerous session musicians. Original members Pete Best (drums) and Stuart Sutcliffe (bass guitar) appeared on early recordings; the former on the group's recording of "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan, and both on various tracks released on Anthology 1.
He began to play bass guitar at the age of 13 in order to accompany friends who played the guitar. [2] Bedford attended William Ellis School in Kentish Town and met members of the North London Invaders at one of their gigs. He was asked to a band rehearsal and was impressed by the musicianship on display.
On his 65th birthday, we look back at Pino’s greatest 4-string moments
Nathan East plays a Yamaha SLB200 Silent Upright Bass with Fourplay at Knight Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 8, 2014. With Yamaha, East developed a custom 5-string bass guitar signature model, the BBNE (modeled after his early 1980s BB5000 5-string bass). The second signature bass, the BBNE2, was released in 2001. A limited ...
Lee was part of a succession of bands including top 40 bands with names like "Chances R”, "The Loving Kind", and "Green Cloud." Lee studied French horn for a year, then switched to a bass major. After classes, he worked on bass fundamentals listening to not only the Beatles, but also Stevie Wonder , Jimi Hendrix , Steve Miller , The Rascals ...
After more than 50 years, the Beatles legend has been reunited with the bass guitar he played on some of the Fab Four’s most famous early songs, including “Love Me Do”, “Twist and Shout ...
James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) [1] [a] was an American bassist.He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases until 1971), and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history.