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Concerts & Tours

Mr. Big to Reunite

“It’s like getting back with an old girlfriend, but because you want to, not because you have to.” This is how bassist and group founder Billy Sheehan describes the upcoming Mr. Big reunion tour. Last fall the original members got together and rocked out the House of Blues in LA. According to Sheehan, the chemistry they shared at that one...

Concerts & Tours

Tony Levin touring updates

Tony Levin is currently performing a four night stand in NYC with L’Image, then heading south of the border with Peter Gabriel. L’Image (Mike Mainieri/vibes, Warren Bernheart/piano, David Spinozza/guitar, Steve Gadd/drums) recently completed recording on an album first conceived by the group about thirty years ago. They hope to release the CD any day now. They will record a live...

Events

Charles Mingus Tribute at Manhattan School of Music

The 1st annual celebration of the life and works of Charles Mingus will be held February 20-22 at the Manhattan School of Music. The weekend is centered around the 1st Annual Charles Mingus High School Competition. Other festivities will include keynote speakers, a panel discussion, and performances by Manhattan School jazz ensembles as well as the Mingus Dynasty. Boris Kozlav...

Player News

Korn bassist releasing memoir

Korn’s bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu has written a memoir, according to a news release by the band. Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn is a look at Fieldy’s years as bassist of Korn, with the “extreme highes and drug-and-booze-fueledlows of the biggest heavy metal band of our era”. The book will be available on March...

Concerts & Tours

Deftones to play Bamboozle Left

The Deftones are preparing their first appearance since bassist Chi Cheng went into a coma after a car accident in November, 2008. Former Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega, who filled in briefly for Cheng in 1999, will perform with the band in the Bamboozle Left festival on April 5th, 2009. The band issued this statement: Our fallen comrade has not made...

Events

David Ellefson signing sessions

Current F5 and former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson will be at WonderCon in San Francisco for signing sessions from February 27th through March 1st. Location: Moscone Center South 747 Howard Street San Francisco, CA Schedule: February 27 at 12pm February 28 at 12pm March 1 at 12pm

News

Leo Fender honored by the Recording Academy

The Recording Academy has honored the late Clarence “Leo” Fender with the Technical Grammy Award, created to acknowledge “contributions of outstanding technical signifcance to the recording field.” The award was presented during a ceremony on February 7th, and during the February 8th Grammys. While Fender didn’t invent the electric guitar as many believed, he did perfect it in terms of...

Gig Announcements

Featured bass gigs

Orange County, California: Melodic Metalcore band needs bass player and drummer (more bass gigs in Orange County) Denver, Colorado: Bass Player Needed (no blues or punk). I’m looking to expand my existing live act to be more full and cohesive with extra burst of fire. (more bass gigs in Denver) West Carleton, Ontario, Canada: No egos,easy going attitude and be...

Events

Jerry Jemmott Workshop

Jerry Jemmott, aka “The Groove Master” is holding a half-day workshop at the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The workshop will be held on February 21 at 1 p.m. and is open to all musicians. Jemmott is one of the most recorded and influential bassists of all time, having recorded with B.B....

Quintin Berry: Bass and Drum Jam
Bass Videos

Quintin Berry: Bass and Drum Jam

We first heard this jam and then saw it. Quintin Berry‘s unusual style really caught us off guard, so we looked around to find out more. Quintin’s style has been called an “unusual underhanded technique, catchy fingerstyle and funky sound.” We can’t think of a better way to put it, and showing it is even better.

Events

Victor Wooten set to open Wooten Woods

Since 2000, Victor Wooten has been running his Bass/Nature camp, and dreaming of having his own location. In 2008, Wooten and his wife purchased about 150 acres of land near Nashville, Tennessee to serve as the new home for the camp. Since April 2008, the camp has been under construction, and the first “Wooten Woods Weekend” will officially kick off...

News

Geddy Lee talks Grammys

USA Today has a feature on the prospects of Rush ever getting a Grammy, or entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Marco R. della Cava’s lead says it all: “Let’s be honest. When you write 20-minute songs that spin futuristic tales of cruel priests ruling from the mythical Temples of Syrinx — cue up Rush’s seminal 1976 album...