“If it wasn't for Jet Harris," Paul McCartney once said, "I would never have picked up a bass guitar.” A founder member of The Shadows, and a solo star for a short period in the 60s, Jet Harris was ...

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The post The Consequence Bassist Survey: 34 Bass Players on Their Favorite Bassists of All Time appeared first on Consequence. Consequence’s Bass Week couldn’t have come to fruition without the help ...

The Hard Quartet bass guitar player Stephen Malkmus has raised eyebrows by using a bass string as a guitar strap onstage with his new supergroup, with his band calling the move “a first in the history ...

Andy Rourke, the bass guitar player for influential British band The Smiths, has died at 59, according to his representatives and former bandmate Johnny Marr. Rourke died from pancreatic cancer after ...

Marcus Miller was a teenager when he decided to break free of what’s expected from a bass guitar player, a role not always associated with being the driving force or center of attention. The two-time ...

Hollywood actors-turned-musicians are nothing new. It's not uncommon that we see a budding celebrity pull out an acoustic guitar to play some rudimentary chords in an effort to swoon their audience.

For the past few years, 10-year-old Ellen Alaverdyan has charmed millions of viewers with her phenomenal, funky bass playing and her infectious smile. Fostered by her father Hovak, also a musician, ...

Known mostly in the rock and pop music world for her skillful bass guitar-playing, Gail Ann Dorsey has a career of her own with solo albums and other projects. Although she’s also performed with ...

The bass is crucial. In many ways, it leads the band. Talk to any bass player and they’ll tell you, if he or she changes up the bass line or rhythm, the group will follow along almost hypnotically, ...

British musician Andy Rourke, best known as the bass player for The Smiths, has died at the age of 59. Rourke’s school friend and former bandmate, guitarist Johnny Marr, confirmed his death in a ...

Now, if you're anything like us – or a beginner on the instrument – the thought of working on your bass guitar technique might be a bit off-putting. We know: rocking out on stage is often more ...