Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Bassist Phil Lynott was one of a kind. If you're old enough to remember rock ...

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Sam Rivers, the bass player in the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday, according to ...

“Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” Limp Bizkit wrote on Instagram, “Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the ...

In fact, some steal the spotlight, and a handful even lead the band! These are the bass virtuosos who play to the beat of ...

We may earn a commission when you buy through our links. You may have heard the news a while back that Gibson was relaunching the legendary Tobias brand of basses. Founded in the late 1970s by Michael ...

Sam Rivers, the bass player for the metal band Limp Bizkit, has died, the band said on social media. He was 48. The band said Rivers died on Saturday but did not disclose where he died or the ...

Sam Rivers, the bass player in the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday, according to social media posts by his band mates. The band did not disclose where Rivers died or the circumstances, but ...