Bass Player: J Clifton Mayhugh This one came in as a request on Talkbass and Bilbo had not heard the track before (nor heard of the bass player). It is a track called ‘Adidas In Heat’ from the Adrian Belew album ‘Lone Rhino’. A funky little tune with some great lines and that wonderful ‘left…

Bass Player: Alphonso Johnson The tune ‘Behind The Lines’ was originall featured on the 1980 Genesis album ‘Duke’. A Banks/Rutherford/Collins composition, the tune was re-arranged by Collins who created a much funkier version with horns and a great bass line from former Weather Report stalwart, Alphonso Johnson. Johnson was the bass player who preceded Jaco…

Bass Player: John Giblin Another lovely John Giblin part from the 1981 Phil Collins solo album ‘Face Value’. A simple root note part in the main but with some sweet little fills. Bilbo says, ‘I remember when this album came out and the Genesis fans were outraged at the Motown, Funk and balld influences that…

Bass Player: Dave Myles From the 1979 Max Webster album, ‘A Million Vacations’, this is a tanscription of the Dave Myles bass part to the single ‘Paradise Skies’. Some weird things happening in bar lengths and we arwe not sure whether the shart has the 2:4 bars in the right place every time but, as…

Bass Player: John Giblin A bit of nonsense really. This is John Giblin’s bass part for the Phil COllins classic ‘In The Air TOnight’ from the 1981 album ‘Face Value’. The part doesn’t come in until after THE drum break and is only four bars long, reapeating until the tune fades. A short transcription but…

Bass Player: John Giblin From the first Phil Collins solo album, ‘Face Value’ (1981), the track ‘Thunder and Lightning’ features some tasteful bass work from John Giblin, a session ace who had worked with Collins in Brand X and who woudl also work with Chris De Burgh, Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel, John MArtyn, Elkie Brooks,…

Bass Player: Chuck Rainey Steely Dan and it’s constituent composers have a reputation for engaging some of the greatest session bassists in history including Tom Barney, Marcus Miller, Anthony Jackson and WIll Lee. One of their most consistent employees is session legend Chuck Rainey whose lines are featured across many Dan albums throughtout their history.…

Bass Player: Roger Glover One from Bilbo’s early Rock years when he was still learning tunes off records on an old Amstrad stereo he bought as a teenager. From the LP ‘Deep Purple In Rock’, Roger Glover’s bass part for the tune ‘Bloodsucker’

Bass Player: Dick Nolan When It Bites hit in 1986, they caused something of a stir with their Prog/Rock/Pop hybrid and the album ‘The Big Lad In The Windmill’ features strong compositions and strong playing from all four band members including guitarist Francis Dunnery, with his Allan Holdsworthesque lines and expressive vocals, and keyboard monster,…

Bass Player: Dave Holland From the 1987 ECM album, ‘The Razor’s Edge’, the transcription is the eight bar sequence that underpins much of the tune. The piece is essentially in 3:4 but the last of weach 8 bar sequence is one bar of 4:4. The imprtant thing to executing this chart, from a reading perspective,…