Billy "Bass" Nelson, the founding bassist of Funkadelic, passed away at the age of 75 in Plainfield. Nelson's distinctive bass playing was a cornerstone of Parliament-Funkadelic's early, ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson Jr., whose bass playing helped define the revolutionary funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic, died Saturday, Parade reports. He was 75, passing away days after his birthday ...

In commercial music, few relationships are as fundamental to the success of a track as the bass and kick drum. The bass, whether acoustic, electric or synthetic, provides a harmonic foundation, as ...

Follow this step-by-step DIY tutorial as we build a bass guitar body! Compare traditional handcrafting techniques with modern CNC methods and see which one delivers the best results. #DIYGuitar ...

Learn how to craft a bass guitar neck from scratch! This step-by-step tutorial covers shaping, fretting, and essential tips for DIY guitar builders. #DIYGuitar #BassGuitarBuild #GuitarNeckTutorial ...

In most instances, John McVie had no problem coming up with bass parts for Fleetwood Mac songs. The iconic riff in “The Chain,” for example, was all his doing. “I butted heads [with] Lindsey ...

Like James Jamerson and Bernard Edwards before him, the late Robert Wilson (who succumbed to a heart attack at age 53 on August 15, 2010) is well on the path to receiving long-overdue accolades and ...

Bootsy Collins and his star-shaped Space Bass rocketed into the funk-soul universe, first with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and later with his own Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He'll be on hand Aug.

Chris “Freekbass” Sherman is such a talented musician that you could drop him in the middle of the Midwest with only his bass guitar, his phone, and the clothes on his back and he’d figure out a way ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This fascinating and enjoyable reissue from 1974 presents Charles Rouse, longtime saxophonist with Thelonious ...