Bass Player: Anthony Jackson From the 1976 album ‘Land Of The Midnight Sun’ the transcription features the Anthony Jackson lines that underpin the opening track ‘The Wizard’. Bilbo tells us that this was the first fusion album he ever bought having been intrigued by the rhetoric around DiMeola’s playing in the guitar magazines he was…

Bass Players: Dave Myles/Geddy Lee A bit of a Heath Robinson job this one as the distortion on both basses and the guitars make it almost impossible to work out what is bass, what is guitar and which bass player is playing which part. A request from a Talkbass forum member, this is the mash…

Bass Player: Dick Nolan Another tune from the It Bites album ‘Big Lad In The WIndmill’. This is the tune ‘All In Red’. Some great riffs and some interesting reading challenges.

Bass Player: Dick Nolan Another strong bass performance from Dick Nolan of Prog legends ‘It Bites’. The tune is the opener from the 1986 album ‘Big Lad In The Windmill’ and is called ‘I’ve Got You Eating Out Of My Hand’. Some great accapella vocals too!

Bass Player: Sara Lee The B52s always seemed to us to be Talking Heads with with a sense of humour. The tune ‘Love Shack’ is undoubtedly their signature tune and is a guaranteed floor filler at gigs and discos alike. What is less widely acknowledged is how important Sara Lee’s bass line is in the…

Bass Player: Juan Calleros From the 1999 Santana album ‘Supernatural’, the transcription features the bass playing of Mexican Maestro Juan Calleros on the tune ‘Corazon Espinado’. An easy read but a great line with that wonderful Latin push, where the emphasis is on the off beats not the first beat of the bar.

Bass Player: Dave Holland From the 1990 album ‘Question And ANswer’, featuring guitarist Pat Metheny in trio with Dave Holland (b) and Roy Haynes (d), this is a transcription of Dave Holland’s bass solo on the balled ‘Old Folks’. Watch the phrasing on this one as there are a couple of passages where it sounds…

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…