Latest articles by Ellen O'Reilly
Guy Pratt reveals the gear he uses to replicate vintage Pink Floyd tones with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets
The session great walks through some of the incredible bass gear that his current world tour with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets requires. Be warned, your mind may be blown...
Slash bassist Todd Kerns: “Guns N’ Roses’ music was in my DNA, so when I met Slash, it was like, ‘What are we doing? Nightrain? Okay!’ I just knew the songs”
Kerns is on a mission to deliver the very best bass – and vocal harmonies – he can, and leaves us some valuable nuggets of career advice
Holly Montgomery: “Playing John Paul Jones’s basslines and singing Robert Plant’s lyrics is no joke”
Running two bands on opposite sides of America is all in a day’s work for Holly Montgomery, who tells us “I have a little bit of a strange career right now.”
Rush’s Geddy Lee on A Farewell To Kings, Les Claypool the bassist, and what he thinks of Primus playing the album live in its entirety
Playing A Farewell To Kings in full is not for the fainthearted. Even Geddy Lee, the man who recorded it, thought Les Claypool “was a little bit nuts” for attempting it
Les Claypool: “Singing Geddy Lee parts and playing bass, or just singing Geddy Lee parts period, is f**king hard, because it’s up in the upper stratosphere”
Primus are currently on the road, playing the Rush album A Farewell To Kings in its entirety. We ask Claypool what made him embark on such a mad endeavor
John Myung dishes on his new signature bass amp, practice regime and whether he ever screws up
The Dream Theater bassist checks in to talk gear, tone and technique following the release of A View From the Top of the World
Phil Thornalley recalls playing bass on The Cure's Love Cats: “I’m sure jazz players feel like crying whenever they hear that line!”
We speak to the man behind one of the most memorable bass parts of the '80s, and hear about his remarkable career as a “bass manipulator” with the likes of Bryan Adams and Natalie Imbruglia
Bill Gould: “I learned to play by writing songs. To me, it’s more about feeling and passion than technical playing”
The Faith No More bassist may not be back on the road as soon as he’d like, but he still has tons of bass wisdom to share...
Tal Wilkenfeld: “Take improvising one step at a time. Don’t think too far ahead, otherwise it’s not genuinely reacting to the moment”
The Australian bass sensation on how stand-up comedy can inform your playing and approach to songwriting
