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It was hard core funk! Already a seasoned musician at 17, an audition call for a bass player reached Gary’s ears. He went, he played, he got the gig. His instructions were to learn the songs, rehearse and prepare to leave on tour in a few weeks. The band was Cameo. Larry Blackmon was the leader, mentor, and friend.
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- Jaco Pastorius. Jaco Pastorius used every minute of the short time he had to expand the technical and dramatic possibilities of the bass, giving his various clients – Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, and even Ian Hunter – more than they bargained for.
- Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney made a trademark out of the supple, lyrical bassline more than any rock player before or since, and that’s on “Paperback Writer” alone.
- Carol Kaye. Putting the bottom end into The Wrecking Crew, Carol Kaye played the indelible parts on “Midnight Confessions,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and an estimated 10,000 other tracks.
- Stanley Clarke. Stanley Clarke was a bass virtuoso with a canny sense of riffs and grooves, plus a few great tricks like that finger-strum trademark.
- James Jamerson. The most important and influential bass guitarist in the 66-year history of the Fender Precision he played, South Carolina-born, Detroit-raised James Jamerson wrote the bible on bass line construction and development, feel, syncopation, tone, touch, and phrasing, while raising the artistry of improvised bass playing in popular music to zenith levels.
- Jaco Pastorius. It's sobering to realize just how drastically Jaco Pastorius changed our world in the short time he was here. In seven years, between 1975 and 1982, Jaco’s staggering contributions to discs by Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, and Weather Report radically upended our expectations of electric bass, and he further cemented his legend on records by Herbie Hancock, Albert Mangelsdorff, Michel Colombier, Al Di Meola, and others.
- Paul McCartney. While Jamerson and Jaco were changing the electric bass in their own way, Paul McCartney was doing it with extreme visibility, front-and-center with the Beatles.
- Larry Graham. The story goes that as a teenager gigging with his mother, Larry Graham played organ pedals and guitar alongside a drummer. When the organ broke, he switched to bass until the organ could be fixed—and then the drummer left the band.
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Gary Dow. Profile: Bassist. Member of Cameo from 1977 to 1978. In Groups: Cameo. Variations: Viewing All | Gary Dow. G. Dow, Down, Gary Dowe.
Giuseppe Henry "Pino" Palladino (born 17 October 1957) is a Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer. A prolific session bassist, he has played bass for a number of acts such as the Who , [1] the John Mayer Trio , Gary Numan , Paul Young , Don Henley , David Gilmour , Go West , Tears for Fears , Nine Inch Nails , Jeff Beck , Adele and D ...
Richard G. Dow, 70, died peacefully Tuesday evening, September 22, 2020 at his home in Windsor, VT. He was born September 12, 1950 in Windsor, VT the son of William Earl and Charlotte (Lowery) Dow. Richard lived his whole life in Windsor, where he attended elementary school and graduated from Windsor High School in...
Feb 5, 2024 · February 5, 2024. We lost a good friend recently. Our beloved Bass Player Gary Fountaine died of cancer on Dec 28, 2023, at the age of 66. Gary was just a kid when we first met him, thirteen or fourteen. He already knew he wanted to be a bass player, but he didn’t have his own bass yet.
