Men in the Mirror: The Bassists of Michael Jackson How Alex Al And His Predecessors Pumped Up The King Of Pop

There's a revealing exchange about five minutes into This Is It, the documentary about the late Michael Jackson’s planned world tour, in which the Gloved One is encouraging his keyboardist to play the answer riff to the penetrating bass line of “Wanna Be Startin’ Something” funkier. “It’s not there yet,” he says gently, before singing the <More>

 
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Evan Marien: Between Worlds [Art of Life] : Youth will be served, the old saying goes, and 23- year-old Berklee graduate Evan Marien’s selfproduced solo debut Between Worlds serves notice that there’s a new bass monster in town. Armed with ridiculously fluid ,3/1/2010 1:00:00 AM

Converge: Axe to Fall [Epitaph] : From the opening punk metal, bass-and-drums, 5 4 runaway-train beat of “Dark Horse,” you know you’re in for a frightening ride from metalcore pioneers Converge. The band might not be typical BP Recommends fare, but Axe to ,3/1/2010 1:00:00 AM

Keb’ Mo’: Live & Mo [Yolabelle] : After winning multiple Grammy’s and other accolades, blues-based singer songwriter Keb’ Mo’ is at the point where you just know his records are going to be good. Live & Mo’ contains both live tracks— with Reggie McBride ,3/1/2010 1:00:00 AM

Anthony Jackson & Yiorgos Fakanas: Interspirit [Abstract Logix] : After 30 years of offers from producers (beginning with Quincy Jones in the late ’70s), Anthony Jackson has released what he is calling his solo debut. As expected from one of the bass guitar’s most original, uncompromising, ,3/1/2010 1:00:00 AM

Augury Fragmentary Evidence : Here’s a welcome development— as death metal turns ever more technical, the bass is becoming not just increasingly audible (there’s a start!), but more complex, counterpunctual, and essential to the actual song. That’s ,2/1/2010 3:45:00 AM

   
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The New Golden Age Of Metal, The Complete Interviews : Yes, there really is a cartoon character on the cover of the April 2010 issue of Bass Player. But that’s no ordinary animated dude; it’s William Murderface of the quantruple- platinum, über-brutal metal band Dethklok, an act so ,3/9/2010 1:05:00 PM

William Murderface Of Dethklok : You can’t put into words what I do. It’s like asking Robert DeNiro how to act, or why George Burns was a comedy genius. I mean, we’ve just got the goods. There’s no secret formula. And I’m sure all the sad struggling bassists ,3/9/2010 12:00:00 PM

Steve DiGiorgio, Extreme Metal Session Ace :  I just gradually became this “session player.” I love it. I don't care what it's called, I'm just so happy to just plug in and jam with somebody else. ‘Cause everyone has killer ideas, no matter what level of musician or what ,3/9/2010 11:45:00 AM

Sharlee D’angelo of Arch Enemy : I think it’s great actually that people are getting interested in musicianship as such again – especially the guitar players, you’d be amazed by how fast they are, and their technique and everything. And some of them, you give ,3/9/2010 11:30:00 AM

Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne :  It's the relationship. It's not about how good or how fast or how many inversions I can play. It's the relationship that my parts bear to the other things that are happening within the song and whether it's musical or not, ,3/9/2010 10:30:00 AM

   
 








 






 
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