Key Points to Remember; Mastering bass lines is essential for novice bass players to grasp. Learning and practicing bass ...

Although they played together for less than a year, James Brown became somewhat of a father figure to bassist Bootsy Collins, ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco ...

Offering a "rare window into Bootsy's brief run with the Godfather of Soul", the Bootsy Collins Collection also features a $5 ...

Quatro’s decision to leave her sisters’ band and become an artist in her own right, came along after British producer, Mickie Most, saw them perform. That night she performed a song she wrote and ...

Something not looking for applause, yet more essential than any show-stopping riff. It’s the bass guitar of our lives: purpose. The bass guitar is a curious beast, isn’t it? It doesn’t clamor.

The Experience of Ecstasy, philiosopher Simon Critchley explains why the only proof of animism he knows is music ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.

Legacy Dallas artist Stefan Gonzalez has a new project, and it's as great as you'd expect it to be.

Phil brought immense joy to everyone around him and leaves behind a legacy of music and love ... Garcia invited him to join the band on bass guitar, an instrument Lesh had never played.

Composed of all Ohio University students with various majors and backgrounds, Lavandula brings a mix of talent to the Athens ...

Lesh had never played the bass guitar before. Garcia then asked ... “We were the spokes. And the music was the tread on the wheel.” But Lesh continued to keep the Dead alive, touring ...