New influences, a change in production methods, and moving away from thrash led to the pair switching up their tandem ...

Bassist Jon Modell looks back onthe band’s early days – and the influence guitarist Greg Kubacki has had on his sound ...

The revered bassist is battling focal dystonia – a neurological movement disorder that causes his fretting fingers to curl up ...

Eric Clapton reportedly joined thinking it would be a blues trio similar to Buddy Guy’s. Jack Bruce considered the act a jazz ...

In March, Pixies announced that Emma Richardson had joined the alt-rock outfit as their new bass guitar player following the departure of low-end stalwart Paz Lenchantin. Since her appointment ...

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.

Revel In Red band members are remembering their beloved bass player Pete Ramsey, who passed away earlier this month, and are ...

Jet took to the double bass, making his own upright to begin with, playing in jazz clubs and joining a band called Tony Crombie’s Rockets that had one eye on the rock’n’roll explosion.

If you are an experienced bass player, you've probably already made all sorts of less-is-more realizations, but a technique refresher can never hurt. As for the rest, hone your technique now ...

Of course, the great bass parts didn’t stop with the end of The Beatles in 1970, but Paul McCartney's playing on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band pointed the way forward to a whole new ...

He was leaving them, so I auditioned and joined up. Later he heard about me, swapped his bass player for me, and I went on the road with them." Despite everything, Jet seemed unstoppable.