MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG – NOTES FROM A BASS IMPOSTER
Affectionate account of making remarkable music.
Bill MacCormick IONA BOOKS
W
ithout a doubt, Quiet Sun’s
Mainstream,
Matching Mole’s
Little Red Record,
and Phil Manzanera’s
Diamond Head
all benefit from some of the most inventive bass work gracing the progressive music scene at the time. However, the man responsible for such bold and agile playing disagrees. As his engaging, informative and highly entertaining memoir makes clear, Bill MacCormick credits himself as an inspired amateur accidentally stumbling into the right place at the right time, an example of the selfdeprecating attitude permeating most of its 472 pages.