Nowadays funk bass is faster and more technical than ... Now it's like ‘You play bass? Oh, cool!’ It's the thing now.” “It was a gradual thing – it didn't happen all of a sudden.

Bassists like Larry Graham come around maybe once a century. Widely credited as the man who invented thumping and plucking, ...

(funky music) Simple, right? But funk isn't just what you play, but it's how you play it. So, to help me break this all down, I called Nik West. She's an amazing bass player. She's worked with ...

Most people want to push music forward, but Peter Gabriel penned a song that managed to shift the entire world of bass ...

Just had the funk in him... ♪ but he also revolutionized funk music because he would play the bass on the synthesizer. Clinton: Which was a new sound that Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and King ...

Bass Week: Playing bass guitar in a metal band is easy ... Second, he’s an absolute monster bass player, powering through funk, rock and metal styles with ease. Third, he produced a documentary ...

Brown’s stripped-down music was filled with syncopated drums, propulsive bass lines and fiery ... White band that had a monster funk hit in 1976 called “Play That Funky Music.” ...

Meet the Biological Misfits, which perform "The Jam," a mix of soul, funk, hip-hop and acid jazz, the first Thursday of every month at Buteco in Grant Park.

Other influences include legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins ... those were the main people I knew when I was starting to play bass,” she says. “And also because I’ve known Victor Wooten ...

In Grand Funk, if there was a leader in the band ... I don’t know how we decided to put it out as a record, but I remember playing the bass part on a Minimoog that I just got.