Bass Player – Geddy Lee 1982 saw the release of Rush’s 9th studio album, ‘Signals’. This was the start of the band’s 1980s ‘synth’ era during which the band moved away from the guitar heavy compositions that they had been known for up until this point into an era defined by Geddy Lee’s synths, Neil…

Bass Player: Dave LaRue Another one of Steve Morse quasi-classical compositions, this is the tune ‘Delicate Balance’ from the 1996 Steve Morse Band album, ‘Stressfest’. Similarly to the transcription of ‘Busybodies’ published elsewhere on this website, the tune features LaRue playing a written counterpoint to Morse’s guitar melodies. Some really challenging jumps in here and…

Bass Player: Dave LaRue Steve Morse is renowned for his versatility not only as a guitar player but as a composer. His back catalogue of tunes with The Dixie Dregs and with his own trios shows a degree of mastery of Rock, Country, Progressive Rock, Jazz-Rock, Fusion and Classical forms. It is to the latter…

Bass Player: Dave LaRue A monster track from the 2000 Steve Morse album, ‘Major Impacts’, this is the complete Dave LaRue bass part to the tune ‘Derailleur Gears’ (a play on the Cream album title ‘Disraeli Gears’?). A fairly routine Rock groove in Am but there is a middle section that goes ‘out’ and will…

Bass Player: John Wetton John Wetton rose to fame initially fronting the bands King Crimson, U.K. and Asia but other gigs included stints with Family, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash. U.K. were a British Progressive Rock ‘supergroup’ formed by Wetton and former Yes/KingCrimson drummer, Bill Bruford and were originally active from 1977 to 1980.…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Al Di Meola’s 1982 album, ‘Electric Rendezvous’ was voted No. 3 in the Billboard Jazz album chart of the same year but is not one of the guitarists more successful albums and is only really ever mentioned as the album that introduced Di Meola and Paco De Lucia’s ‘hit single’ ‘Passion,…

Bass Player: Alphonso Johnson Another track requested by Staylow from Talkbass, this is Alphonso Johnson’s bass part to the tune ‘Elegant People’ from the 1976 Weather Report album ‘Black Market’. Some strange double stops it is hard to find but, otherwise, a nice funky tune to invest in.

Bass Player: Geddy Lee The 1996 ‘Test For Echo’ album was Rush’s last recording before a personal tragedy forced a 5 year hiatus on the band. The album was not one of the band’s most successful and a lot of the tracks have disappeared into obscurity. ‘Driven’ was the tune that was featured the most…

Bass Player: Alphonso Johnson A massively underrated player due to his proximity to the legendary Jaco Pastorius, Alphonso Johnson’s playing on the 1976 Weather Report album, ‘Black Market’ is entirely comparable to Jaco’s and this transcription shows a lot of lines that suggest that he was every bit as creative and inspirational as his successor.…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Bilbo remembers the 1982 Rush album ‘Signals’ because he was in the front row of the Wembley Arena on that tour, stood right at the feet of the maestro himself. The transcription here is a request that came in today and is a complete transcription of ‘The Analog Kid’ (shame they…