We often give glory to the soaring guitar solos or the powerhouse vocals, but the true heartbeat of any great track lives in the low end. The bass line bridges rhythm and melody, grounding the song ...

Musician-and-inventor Paul Tutmarc of Seattle, Washington, developed the first modern fretted electric bass guitar in 1936. And it just so happens another Seattle native, Guns N' Roses very own Duff ...

BASS EXPO 2014: For the most part the bass guitar is not a solo instrument, but players like Stanley Clarke and Jaco Pastorius, and more recently, Victor Wooten and Michael Manring, have carved a ...

Bassist John Entwistle of the rock and roll band "The Who" performs onstage in February 1975. John Entwistle, affectionately nicknamed ‘The Ox’ for his stoic onstage profile, revolutionised the role ...

A friend of mine posted this video the other day, and I feel compelled to share it with you, if only to purge the image from my mind. The video features Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, performing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musician-and-inventor Paul Tutmarc of Seattle, Washington, developed the first modern fretted electric bass guitar in 1936. And it ...