Bass Week: Playing bass guitar in a metal band is easy ... think I'm out there kicking the shit out of the audience. I want people to be psychologically pummelled by the music, by the sweat ...

Since the beginning of time, people ... so I took a bass string, put it on the guitar, and tuned it in unison, only an octave lower on the A string, so I'd still be able to play with all six ...

I worked with Quincy Jones on the film music, playing fuzz bass on a lot of the cues. That was pretty cool. Not many people knew you put fuzz on a bass; they thought it only worked with a guitar.

And Andrew Stockton (vocalist), he saw it, and was like, ‘Do you want to come play bass? You can come up’.” Scurrying up to the stage, a bass guitar and strap were quickly draped over the ...

“The bass isn’t looked at as a ‘cool instrument’. It’s always seen as something in the background, or the ‘backbone’ of a band," DeTiger recently told Guitar.com. "I think I’m ...