When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Bassist Dave ‘Phoenix Farrell is used to being the cornerstone. His band, ...

Bass Week: Playing bass guitar in a metal band is easy. You carefully copy whatever riff the guitarist plays, wave horn signs at the leather-clad crowd and then go home. There's little room for ...

ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis—that’s who. The ZZ Top bass player broke one out at the band’s show in Huntsville, Alabama earlier this week on November 5. The musician played the odd-looking instrument when ...

Out of all the essential instruments that are played in popular music, the bass guitar is almost always the least renowned. Lead singers, guitar players, drummers, even keyboard players—they are all ...

ZZ Top's Elwood Francis has become a key part of the band's live lineup, but he has one major regret about his performances. That would be having introduced the gigantic bright yellow 17-string bass ...

*For more than 50 years, bass player Rustee Allen has been “all funked up,” playing and recording with some of the most legendary singers and bands in the world of rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and gospel ...

KISS' Gene Simmons thinks playing a bass guitar with a pick is better than playing one with fingers. The topic of finger-picking is a divisive one amongst all types of guitar and bass players, with ...

The best bass guitars come with a wide variety of features and options, suited to particular genres and individual styles—there are endless variations on what you can do with low end. Are you planning ...

September 7, 2022 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google I’ve been playing music games for the past 10 years and playing music-music for longer than that, and I’m ...