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1. Now then, this Canadian bass player is most famous for playing a Rickenbacker even though he has played a Fender Jazz longer and says he prefers it. Fender have even created a signature bass for him. I like his work on 'YYZ' and 'Freewill' best.
2. Bill Wyman is said to have made the first electric fretless bass, playing it as far back as 1961!
3. This bassist is a jazz player. He composed many famous jazz standards but is best remembered for 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat'.
4. Many great players have used Precision Basses as their axe of choice, particularly in rock - look at Steve Harris of Iron Maiden or Mike Dirnt of Green Day. You also have to remember that sixties / seventies bassists seemed to prefer the P Bass when going electric. This particular Stax star seemed to know his or her onions and it was all water off his or her back, so to speak. Who is this famous Don of the bass?
5. Sir Paul McCartney played bass with the Beatles and later with Wings. He is actually a multi instrumentalist and a wonderful songwriter. As a left handed player, he is most famous for playing what bass?
6. When it comes to playing Alembic basses, there is one Jazz Fusion bassist who always comes to mind. Yes, it is Stanley Clarke, although he is just as famous for playing an upright. Along with Chick Corea, Lenny White and Al DiMeola he played in arguably the most famous Fusion band of all time. What was it called?
7. Who was the very influential, fretless Fender Jazz bass playing member of Weather Report?
8. Jaco Pastorius never played the upright bass.
9. Another famous bass is the Fodera YinYang Bass. Who was this originally built for?
10. After Jaco left Weather Report in 1982, who replaced him?
11. Genesis drummer, vocalist and frontman, Phil Collins, started a Fusion side project called Brand X in 1975. This featured a fretless bass player sporting the fairly new Wal Bass and Frunt Amplification. Who was this Welsh bass player?
12. The bass player and brother of the vocalist / frontman in My Chemical Romance, since their forming in 2001, plays that rock favourite, a Fender Precision. What is his name?
13. So, when we listen to Cream, you can not help but admire the improvisational skill and creative genius of Jack Bruce. Although he played Gibson EB basses for years he converted to the woody, growly tones of which bass in the nineties?
14. We don't seem to be able to get away from Fender P-Basses. What is the name of the Pink Floyd frontman for many years, who wrote, sang and played bass for the band as well as being a founding member?
15. This giant of a bassist took the deep end responsibility for Nirvana. Most famously playing a Gibson Thunderbird he also plays Rippers and Ibanez Roadsters. Krist Novoselic has always experimented with his sound. Who makes his signature bass?
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