Recent content by A.K.

No, it's Bill Wyman with his homemade bass cut from an original Dallas Tuxedo.

He is the peak of rock bass in my opinion. I love playing Going for the One as a warm up when I'm playing. I'm going to try to find an isolated bass track for Gates of Delirium. Cool story about meeting them! Steve Howe has looked like he's the Crypt Keeper since he was about 25, but he still...

Just found it when looking for high quality Isolated tracks for the song on YouTube.

Can't believe it's been 10 years. To me, there are many great bass players, but Chris Squire is in a class all his own.

Half-brother.

It's not just in rock and pop. The bass parts in most orchestral and chamber music were generally simple, sometimes surprisingly so. Bass parts got more complicated after Beethoven's Ninth, and there is some very tricky stuff in Mahler and Richard Strauss.

It takes a toll on the right wrist to do it like Cliff, but that's the only way to play it if you want to nail his style. (Just like you need to stay on the hi-hat at all times if you want to play the drums like Phil.) I can't imagine doing it for 2+ hours every night on tour for months. I can't...

Jimmy, how well would you say they nailed Phil and Cliff's parts? I hope the guy was doing all downstrokes with palm muting!

Why do you think a Grammy for classical music is a better metric of merit than a Grammy for pop? Just curious, not trying to start an argument.

You don't really take a Grammy nomination or the winning of a Grammy as an actual indication of merit, do you?

Nard taught Nile how chuckin' works on the guitar. According to Nile's memoirs, he spent the rest of the night practicing it and knew funk guitar was his thing.

Weird but true story: I found out about Nard's death while at sea on the USS Alaska, an Ohio-class submarine. We used to get radiograms that sometimes included random news items. One of them was about Nard dying in Japan. I was shocked, but no one had any idea who he was.