Bass Player: Herbie Flowers The second transcription from Jeff Waynes Musical Version of The War of The Worlds. ‘Horsell Common and The Heat Ray’. Those of us who were young enough to be impressed by such things in the late 70s can recall the sound of the cylinder unscrewing. Great theatre but THAT bass line…

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers ‘No-one would have believed, in the last days of 2020, that a transcribers affairs were being watched from the timeless whirls of the internet’. Herbie Flowers was a renowned session player in the 1970s and, amongst his many appearances, he recorded with David Bowie, T. Rex, Lou Reed, Petula Clark, Bryan…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Another tune from the 1980 Rush album ‘Permanent Waves’, this transcription features Geddy Lee’s bass part for the tune ‘Freewill’. A real Prog fest with time signature changes on almost every bar!! 6:4, 7:4, 4:4, 3:4 – it’s all in there. Much easier to read if you know the track!

Bass Player: Mark Egan Previously credited in error to Jaco Pastorius, further research and a damn good thrashing on BAsschat has revealed that the player on this track is former Pastorius student, Mark Egan. Egan was the original bass player with the Pat Metheny Group and has performed with a myriad of other players across…

Bass Player: Jaco Pastorius When Jaco first hit the scene in around 1976, his influence was pretty universal and everyone wanted a piece of the magic. Jaco was appearing on individual tracks in all sorts of strange places, not as a band member but as a featured sideman or session player, weaving a little bit…

Bass Player: Tom Fowler Born in Slat LAke City, Utah, in 1951, Tom Fowler has played with It’s A Beautiful Day, Frank Zappa, The Mothers OF Invention, Jean-uc Ponty, Ray Charles, Steve Hackett and many others. The transcription attached features his very measured part for the Jean-Luc Ponty tune ‘Aurora Pt. 1’ from the 1976…

Bass Player: Tony Reeves Very much an underrated player, Tony Reeves was the original bass player for UK Jazz Rock pioneers Colosseum and also the bass player on the first three Greenslade albums, ‘Greenslade’, ‘Spyglass Guest’ and ‘Bedside Manners Are Extra’. These three albums feature some exquisite playing and any of the three will provide…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A lovely ballad from the 1997 Jeff Berlin album, ‘Taking Notes’, this is a full transcription of the tune ‘Sean En La Madrugada’ (Sean in the morning? We understand that Sean is one of Jeff’s children). The performance uses the entirity of the neck so is way up in the Gods…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee From the 1981 Rush album, ‘Moving Pictures’, this is full Geedy Lee bass part to the closing tune on the record, ‘Vital Signs’. This was the first sign of the 1980s ‘reggae’ period, where Rush, clearly influenced by the success of The Police, started experimenting with the faux-reggae grooves that would…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin From the 2009 Jeff Berlin album ‘In Harmony’s Way’, this is a great little tune called ‘Emeril Kicks It Up’. A shuffle tune with an edge. Jeff’s comopositions always go in interesting directions and, despite the simplicity of the groove, this one has a really engaging melodic themes. The ‘breakdown’ later…