Bassists.com Launches a New Way to Explore the Bass Universe
Corey Brown founded No Treble in 2009, but his dream of a website celebrating bassists dates back to 1999. Now, he’s brought his original idea to life with Bassists.com, a music discovery site built around the heroes of the low end.
Notable bass players are featured on dedicated pages, complete with biographies, genre links, lists of artists they worked with, discographies, performance videos, news stories (as provided by No Treble), and recommendations for other bassists. Each band and artist then has their own profile, allowing you to see all the bassists that have worked with them.
Central to Bassists.com is an interactive visual map that shows the connections among bassists, bands, and artists. You start with one bassist, then click to expand and watch the web of relationships grow. It’s a fantastic way to find unexpected connections and overlapping musical worlds that music fans will find addictive. That feeling of excitement and wonder goes back to Corey’s days of buying records.
“Before the web, I discovered music at the record store by flipping albums over and looking at who played on them,” he explains. “If I saw a musician I loved, I’d buy the record. Each purchase gave me more musicians to follow, and the cycle kept going. That’s what Bassists.com recreates. You pick a bassist, a band, or an album you love, and you follow the connections from there. Every click leads somewhere new.”
There’s already plenty to explore, but this is just the beginning.
“With just 100 bassists in the catalog, the site already has over 830 band and artist pages and more than 3,100 albums,” Corey says. “Every new bassist I add makes the whole site richer. New connections, new bands, new records to explore. The catalog is just getting started.”
Visit Bassists.com to start exploring the bass universe from a new perspective.
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
It says to contact you on the bassists.com website but there is no listed email address, no form to fill out, nothing. Makes it difficult to contact you.
Two wonderful bass players are missing. Bruce Thomas who had years with Elvis Costello and the Attractions, and Bob Mosley of Moby Grape and The Ducks. Please add both of these great players, two of my main influences.
Thanks,
Bud
Timothy B. Schmit and Randy Meisner should be in there as well.