Bass Player UK  |  July 2018
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: IDA NIELSEN
When Ida Nielsen picked up the phone in 2010 to hear Prince’s manager asking if she’d like to come and audition, a career began that included six years alongside the great man, playing bass in two of his bands, the New Power Generation and 3rd Eye Girl. Prince always knew his stuff when it came to picking phenomenal musicians, with Ida sadly one of the last in a prestigious line of bassists going as far back as Andre Cymone and Brown Mark, both of whom have appeared in BGM over the years. Prince died at the age of fifty eight in April 2016, twenty years before his time and with his life’s work far from complete; his last few years showed that he had plenty of creative capital in the bank. Nielsen fuelled his final works with immaculate bass playing. So in this exclusive interview, we sat down with Nielsen in order to find out how it feels to plug in and play at Paisley Park.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Bass Player UK July 2018.