Bass Guitar Players

The second album from San Diego’s Three Mile Pilot gets the occasional listen over the years since acquiring the record in the 90s. There’s some thoughts penned here on the band’s sound as well as the totally unique style of the band’s bass player, Zach Smith.

This track from the band’s 1981 self-titled début (of which there’s two versions) offers a strong fusion of post-punk, Aussie pub rock, DIY percussion underpinned by rhythmic structuring more aligned with electronic dance music.

A look at this track from the 1991 Fugazi album Steady Diet Of Nothing, from a band that is for me one of the most important in terms of influence and direction in my musical history.

“Themes For Great Cities” by one of my faves from that era, Glasgow’s Simple Minds, opens 1981’s Sister Feelings Call… or Sons And Fascination?

The holiday season is here and for various reasons I sort of singled out Mick Karn‘s 1982 album Titles as one to soundtrack the festive period.

A look at the details of the track “Doomsday” by post-(insert term here) “supergroup” June Of 44 from their 1998 album Four Great Points.