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…

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.…