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Bass Guitarists
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. Bass guitarists provide the low-pitched basslines and bass runs in many different styles of music ranging from rock and metal to blues and jazz. Bassists also use the bass guitar as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock styles. Musicians known mainly as guitarists are listed separately in the list of guitarists. For double bass players, see List of classical double bass players; List of jazz bassists, which includes both double bass and electric bass players; and List of double bassists in popular music, which includes blues, folk, country, etc. For females, see List of female bass guitarists A * Barry Adamson (Magazine, Visage, Nick C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaye Advert
Gaye Black (born 25 August 1956), known professionally as Gaye Advert, is an English punk rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ... musician, best known for being the bassist in The Adverts in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock music, rock celebrity, stars of the Punk subculture, punk rock movement, whom ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music'' called the "first female punk star." She was "one of punk's first female icons".; Dave Thompson (author), Dave Thompson wrote that her "photogenic" looks, "panda-eye make-up and omnipresent leather jacket defined the face of female punkdom until well into the next decade."; Life and career Gaye Black was born on 25 August 1956, in Bideford, a small coastal town in North Devon. She started playing bass in her r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reels
The Reels are an Australian rock music, rock band which formed in Dubbo, New South Wales in 1976. It disbanded in 1991, and reformed in 2007. Its 1981 song "Quasimodo's Dream (song), Quasimodo's Dream" was voted one of the APRA Top 30 Australian songs, top 10 Australian songs of all time by a 100-member panel from Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001. The Reels had top 10 Australian singles chart successes with cover versions, covers of Herb Alpert's "This Guy's in Love with You" (No. 7, 1982) and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising (song), Bad Moon Rising" (No. 11, 1986). Rock music history, music historian Ian McFarlane described the group as "one of the most original and invigorating pop bands to emerge from the Australian New wave music, new wave movement of the late 1970s."McFarlan'The Reels'entry. Retrieved 27 February 2010. Career 1976–1980: Early years Native Sons, consisting of John Bliss on drum kit, drums, Craig Hooper on lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Abrahams (musician)
Paul Abrahams (born 21 October 1958) is an Australian musician and bass player for the Reels Biography Abrahams joined the Reels in 1978 and recorded 2 albums and 1 EP between 1979 and 1981. The basses used on those recordings was a 1962 Fender VI and 1968 Fender Precision fretless, he currently plays a 4-string Tony Franklin Signature Fender Precision Bass. The Reels album Quasimodo's Dream and single of the same name was voted in 2001 by APRA in the Top Ten Most Influential Australian songs of the past 75 years. During the 1978–1981 period he worked as a session musician for MOJO Jimmy Sloggett with musician Tommy Emmanuel 1980–1981 – Art and music experiments with Brett Cabot Artist. 1984–1988 – Recording and writing at Kings Lane Studios with Chris Betro engineer. 1984 played Drums for a trio called 'Rat Tat Tat' with Peter Blakeley Vocals, Geoff Stapleton on Bass from The Aliens (Australian band) and GANGgajang. During the Kings Lane Studio years, Paul Abr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are a Rock music, rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by lead vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and German guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis (musician), Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey (all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica (United Kingdom), touring keyboardist/percussionist Larry Mullins (musician), Larry Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit (United States), and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). Described as "one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward", they have released eighteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours. The band was founded following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group The Birthday Party (band), the Birthday Party, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visage (band)
Visage were a British New wave music, new wave pop band formed in London in 1978. The band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romanticism, New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s, and are best known for their hit "Fade to Grey (Visage song), Fade to Grey" which was released in late 1980. In the UK, the band achieved two Top 20 albums (''Visage (Visage album), Visage'' and ''The Anvil (album), The Anvil'') and five Top 30 singles before the commercial failure of their third album (''Beat Boy'') led to their breakup in 1985. The band saw various line-up changes over the years, all fronted by vocalist Steve Strange, who resurrected the band name in the 2000s. In 2013, the final line-up of the band released ''Hearts and Knives'', the first new Visage album in 29 years. The band's fifth and final album, ''Demons to Diamonds (Visage album), Demons to Diamonds'', was released in 2015, nine months after Strange had died following a heart attack. History First incar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazine (band)
Magazine were a British Rock music, rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester in England by singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch. After leaving the Punk rock, punk group Buzzcocks in early 1977, Devoto decided to create a more progressive and less "traditional" rock band. The original lineup of Magazine was composed of Devoto, McGeoch, Barry Adamson on bass, Bob Dickinson on keyboards and Martin Jackson on drums. Their debut album, ''Real Life (Magazine album), Real Life'' (1978), was critically acclaimed and was one of the first post-punk albums. After releasing two other albums, ''Secondhand Daylight'' and ''The Correct Use of Soap'', McGeoch left the band in 1980 to join Siouxsie and the Banshees. Magazine released another studio album and disbanded in 1981. All four of their albums reached the top 40 on the UK Albums Chart. They reunited in 2009 for a UK tour with Noko on guitar. Magazine released an album of new material, ''No Thyself'', in October 2011, followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson (born 11 June 1958)Biography . Barryadamson.com. is an English pop and rock musician.Adamson, Barry (2021) ''Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars - Magazine, the Bad Seeds, into the Underworld and Beyond'', Omnibus Press, He came to prominence in the late 1970s as a member of the band and went on to work with Visage, Nick Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Female Bass Guitarists
This is a list of notable female bass guitarists. A * * Gaye Advert (from The Adverts) * Kianna Alarid (from Tilly and the Wall) * Chloe Alper (from Pure Reason Revolution) * Stephanie Ashworth (from Something for Kate) * Talena Atfield (formerly of Kittie) * Melissa Auf der Maur (formerly of Hole (band), Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins) * Carla Azar (from autolux) B * Laura Ballance (from Superchunk) * Jo Bench (from Bolt Thrower) * Christina Billotte (formerly of Autoclave (band), Autoclave) * Gina Birch (from The Raincoats) * Lori Black (from Melvins) * Victory Tischler-Blue, Vicki Blue (formerly of The Runaways) * Joanna Bolme (from Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks) * Butterfly Boucher * Fallon Bowman (formerly of Kittie) * Shanne Bradley (founding member of The Nips and The Men They Couldn't Hang) * Beverly Breckenridge (from Fifth Column (band), Fifth Column and Phono-Comb) * Rosemary Butler (singer), Rosemary Butler (formerly of The Daisy Chain (band), The Daisy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Double Bassists In Popular Music
This list of double bassists in popular music includes double bass performers from a range of genres, including rockabilly, psychobilly, Country music, country, blues, Folk music, folk, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, and other styles. In these styles, the instrument is often referred to as an upright bass or a standup bass. A * Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Mother Love Bone, and others) B * Victor Bailey (musician), Victor Bailey (various bands and artists) * Barry Bales (Alison Krauss) * Tom Barney (various artists and bands) * Max Bennett (musician), Max Bennett (The Wrecking Crew (music), The Wrecking Crew, Peggy Lee, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa) * Bill Black (Elvis Presley) * Joe Buck (musician), Joe Buck (Hank Williams III) C * Ron Carter (jazz) * Paul Chambers (jazz) * Les Claypool (Primus (band), Primus) * John Clayton (bassist), John Clayton (various artists and bands) * Ernest "Big" Crawford (Muddy Waters, Sunnyland Slim, Little Walter, Memphis Minnie, Jimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jazz Bassists
This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players. The most influential jazz double bassists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington band); Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960), who is considered by bassists and musicologists to be the first bebop bassist and the transitional link from the swing era to bebop. Ray Brown (1926–2002), known for backing a number of beboppers, including alto virtuoso Charlie Parker; Milt Hinton (1910–2000) and George Duvivier (1920–1985), who are the two most recorded bassists in jazz history, their respective careers spanning many eras and genres; a singular creative force was Wilbur Ware (1923–1979) legendary bassist with Monk and others, hard bop bassist Ron Carter (born 1937); and Paul Chambers (1935–1969), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
