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Larry Graham on when you really need to use a 5-string bass
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSinger Larry Graham performs on stage during the 2016 Essence Festival Prince Tribute at the...
How Larry Graham invented slap bass
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 1 month agoBassist Larry Graham of the psychedelic soul group 'Sly And The Family Stone' plays a Vox electric bass as he works on an album for the 'Spaulding Wood...
The 20 greatest slap bass songs of all time
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPortrait of Danish musician Ida Nielsen. Mark King, lead singer and bassist of the band Level 42. Photo of Victor WOOTEN. American Jazz composer and...
"If you’re overplaying, you’re under-listening": Rocco Prestia on 50 years with Tower of Power
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrancis Rocco Prestia, circa 2000 Like B.B. King’s string bends, Chuck Berry’s two-note chords, and...
“A Lot of Cats Don’t Work on Their Rhythm Enough…The Next Thing Is Pitch”: Prince Shares Some...
Guitar Player via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPrince during Prince "Musicology" Tour Hits United States - "Schools In" at El Rey Theater in Los...
10 Albums Blu DeTiger Thinks Every Bass Player Should Own
Consequence of Sound via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDeTiger selects records featuring bass work from Bernard Edwards, Larry Graham, Meshell Ndegeocello....
The Joy of Slap
GQ via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMichael Houtz Steely Dan didn’t want slapping on “Peg.” In 1976 and ‘77, when the jazz-rock group was making Aja, its classic sixth album, disco’s...
“If I overplayed behind a singer, there’d be a guy waiting for me with a knife!” Marcus Miller looks...
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 1 month agoUS Marcus Miller, jazz composer and bass guitarist, and Belgium singer Selah Sue (L) perform on...
“Hearing Jaco Pastorius changed my life. I took the frets out of my first bass because of Jaco! He...
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOne of the bass guitar’s all-time greats on how Béla Fleck got him into Paul McCartney, the time...
Sly Stone lives to tell the tale of his lifelong journey to heaven, hell and back
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn November 1987, someone in Sly Stone’s camp thought it would be a grand idea to book a two-night stand at the Las Palmas Theatre in Hollywood. The erstwhile superstar, who had notched multiple ...
