Bass Player: Paul McCartney Nearly two years into the Bilbo’s Bass Bites project and this is the first Paul McCartney chart. Appalling oversight. McCartney is an up and coming young bass player from Liverpool, Lancashire. He hasn’t much in the way of chops and probably won’t amount to much but we do like to encour0age…

Bass Player: Morten Strypet MEER started out as a duo in Hamar, Norway in 2008, and since then the duo has expanded considerably to become what it is today – an eight-piece eclectic collective whose music is a mix of orchestral pop, classical music and progressive rock. With their grandiose string arrangements and polyphonic vocals,…

Bass Player: Alain Caron Canada knows how to breed bassists. The youngest of 11 children, Caron started playing bass at age 11 and began pursuing Jazz at age 15. His musical skills were formalised by correspondence lessons with the jazz improvisation teacher Charlie Banacos, who also taught Jeff Berlin and Mike Stern, and by attending…

Bass Player: Phil Curtis Phillip Edwin Lionel Shutt (31 March 1951 – 14 March 2018), known professionally as Phil Curtis, was an English session musician and bass guitarist known for his work with Arthur Brown, Kiki Dee, Steve Gibbons, Larry Carlton, Chris Rea, Gilbert O’Sullivan, John Morgan, Denny Laine, Steve Marriott , The BAy City Rollers and many…

Bass Player: Chad Stocker A request from a Talkbass forum user, this is a chart for the band’s most widely known track, ‘The Luck You Got’, reportedly used as the theme to the US version of ‘Shameless’. The bass player is Chad Stocker. Some creative stuff going on and a straight through read will probably…

Bass Player: Glenn Tollett A brief internet search suggests that The Enid’s 1976 album, ‘In The Region Of The Summer Stars’ represents Glenn Tollett’s entire career as a professional musician, the young Tollett going on to make a life for himself as a dentist. Tollet was a member of The Enid for around two years…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee The ‘breakthrough’ album for Rush, the recording that took them from small struggling Canadian wannabes to one of the major players on the international Rock music scene. This is the complete set of pdfs for the whole of the 1976 Rush album, ‘2112’. Classic Geddy.

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Closing track from the 1976 |Rush album, ‘2112’, this is Geddy’s bass part for the tune ‘Something For Nothing’.

Bass Player: Geddy Lee First track on Side 2 of the original vinyl LP, this is Geddy Lee’s bass part to the tune ‘A Passage To Bangkok’. Some really interesting composing here. A monster riff but that rhythm section performance behind Alex Lifeson’s guitar solo is genius. Three bars of 4:4 plus one of 7:8.

Bass Player: Alphonso Johnson Known primarily for his work with Weather Report, bassist Alphonso Johnson also performed and recorded extensively with a range of other artists including Santana. Phil Collins, Billy Cobham, Chet Baker and Bob Weir (Grateful Dead). His fretless playing predated the innovations of Jaco Pastorius and his work on the Weather Report…