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Bass Player US Magazine April 2020 Back Issue

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22 Reviews   •  English   •   Music (Practical & Playing)
Billy Sheehan
Our Guest Editor Billy Sheehan looks back on 30 years since he starred on the front cover of the Premier Issue of Bass Player.
What’s changed since then, we ask, and what lies ahead for the great man? After we interviewed him, Mr S chose the bass player proiles for this issue, and we got to work...

It Was Thirty Years Ago Today...
Mike Brooks casts his eye back towards 1990, when all red-blooded bass players had an amp the size of a fridge freezer and sported a fetching mullet. Together with an eye-watering selection of images from the era, we celebrate three decades of musical and technological progress since those far-off days

Sir Paul McCartney
How could we omit the bass-playing knight of the realm in any discussion of Billy Sheehan’s inluence? Here, Joe Shooman pays tribute to the master

Tim Bogert
Hard rock bass-playing was never better than in the
hands of the mighty Tim Bogert, now retired after a career like few others. Alison Richter salutes the man who brought bass to Beck and beyond.
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April 2020 Billy Sheehan Our Guest Editor Billy Sheehan looks back on 30 years since he starred on the front cover of the Premier Issue of Bass Player. What’s changed since then, we ask, and what lies ahead for the great man? After we interviewed him, Mr S chose the bass player proiles for this issue, and we got to work... It Was Thirty Years Ago Today... Mike Brooks casts his eye back towards 1990, when all red-blooded bass players had an amp the size of a fridge freezer and sported a fetching mullet. Together with an eye-watering selection of images from the era, we celebrate three decades of musical and technological progress since those far-off days Sir Paul McCartney How could we omit the bass-playing knight of the realm in any discussion of Billy Sheehan’s inluence? Here, Joe Shooman pays tribute to the master Tim Bogert Hard rock bass-playing was never better than in the hands of the mighty Tim Bogert, now retired after a career like few others. Alison Richter salutes the man who brought bass to Beck and beyond.


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Billy Sheehan
Our Guest Editor Billy Sheehan looks back on 30 years since he starred on the front cover of the Premier Issue of Bass Player.
What’s changed since then, we ask, and what lies ahead for the great man? After we interviewed him, Mr S chose the bass player proiles for this issue, and we got to work...

It Was Thirty Years Ago Today...
Mike Brooks casts his eye back towards 1990, when all red-blooded bass players had an amp the size of a fridge freezer and sported a fetching mullet. Together with an eye-watering selection of images from the era, we celebrate three decades of musical and technological progress since those far-off days

Sir Paul McCartney
How could we omit the bass-playing knight of the realm in any discussion of Billy Sheehan’s inluence? Here, Joe Shooman pays tribute to the master

Tim Bogert
Hard rock bass-playing was never better than in the
hands of the mighty Tim Bogert, now retired after a career like few others. Alison Richter salutes the man who brought bass to Beck and beyond.
read more read less
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