british blues

Not necessarily mentioned as much as his contemporaries, his playing certainly went far beyond roots and fifths in almost a “lead bass” style, especially on that Five Live Yardbirds album with Clapton. But “Shapes Of Things” had some real inspiring lines, as the band prefigured the future with...

Unlike many guitarists who might have felt “demoted”, or that it was beneath them(or whatever), he embraced it. Like most American kids of a certain age, I had no idea he had an earlier career on guitar, and really enjoyed his bass playing on those first two Jeff Beck albums(let alone swipe some...