Bass Player

Founded in 1989 as quarterly, brought by founding editor Jim Roberts to a monthly. In 2018, Future Publishing acquired Bass Player and the UK magazine Bass Guitar. Both magazines were published in parallel under their own names with the same content, starting with Bass Player issue #375 November 2018. Bass Player continued to be published until October 2022.

1997 March

Scott Thunes. Requiem For A Heavyweight?
By Thomas Wictor

If you've never heard Scott Thunes play the bass, you can't appreciate how far the instrument can be taken. Thunes will dispute that notion, of course-he takes issue with the idea he's a great bassist. The former Frank Zappa sideman (whose surname is pronounced TOOness) is a contrarian of the highest order. He disagrees with almost any statement of a declarative nature, at least when it concerns his role in music and his approach to the bass. He' s of the opinion that much of the brilliant live work he recorded with Zappa is riddled with mistakes, each of which he's apt to point out in exacting detail. (read more)