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He created a fretless electric bass guitar [10] by removing [11] the frets on a second hand UK-built Dallas Tuxedo bass [12] [13] and played this in a south London band, the Cliftons, in 1961. He legally changed his surname to Wyman in August 1964, taking the phonetic surname of a friend, Lee Whyman, with whom he had done national service in ...
Although Squire is usually associated with the Rickenbacker, he played many different models of bass guitar throughout his career, selecting each instrument according to the demands of the song and the approach of the time. In addition to four-string bass, he was an early pioneer of eight-string bass, occasionally played fretless bass, and had ...
The following is a list of notable electric bass guitar players. The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.
Allmusic.com and Rolling Stone magazine rated this album as one of the best singer/songwriter albums of the 1970s. In 1977, Levin joined Peter Gabriel's band. He had met Gabriel through producer Bob Ezrin with whom Levin had recorded Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare and Lou Reed's Berlin. Levin has been Gabriel's bass player of choice ...
Keith Richards – guitar, vocals, bass guitar; Bill Wyman – bass guitar, keyboards, percussion; Charlie Watts – drums, percussion; Ronnie Wood – guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals; Black and Blue (1976) Love You Live (1977) Some Girls (1978) Emotional Rescue (1980) Tattoo You (1981) Still Life (1982) Undercover (1983) Dirty Work (1986 ...
A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck lacks frets and thus is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the neck of an acoustic double bass. While the fretless bass is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them ...
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Jigsaw Puzzle" is one of the longer songs on the album.It comes in just ten seconds shorter than "Sympathy for the Devil".Parts of the recording sessions are available on the bootleg market, and on these recordings, Jagger is on acoustic guitar, Richards on electric slide guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Bill Wyman on bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano.
Writing in The Sunday Times in 2008, Dan Cairns had suggested: "many consider him to be one of the greatest bass players of all time." [43] Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick said, "There was a time when Jack Bruce was synonymous with the bass guitar in rock history, when he was widely revered as the best there was on four strings."