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  Doug Wimbish HMV DIGITAL ダウンロード
Doug Wimbish was one of the 1980s' most versatile bassists, able to move from pop and mainstream rock session work to heavy metal, funk, and experimental music over the course of the decade; he continued in this vein through the 1990s before finally releasing his first solo album, Trippy Notes for Bass, in 1999.
Wimbish is perhaps best known as the bassist in the house band of the legendary rap label Sugar Hill, backing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on their epochal Message album, among many others.
Wimbish, guitarist Skip McDonald, and drummer Keith LeBlanc began working on a variety of projects with Sherwood, including backing ex-Pop Group member Mark Stewart on his solo recordings and issuing their own 12 singles under the name Fats Comet.
www.hmv.co.jp /digital/artist/000000000141874   (317 words)

  
  Doug Wimbish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doug Wimbish (born September 22, 1956) is a bass guitar player, primarily known for his studio work for the rap/hip hop label Sugarhill Records and his membership of the band Living Colour.
Wimbish is considered to be a pioneer in hip hop bass playing and in the use of effects with bass playing.
In 2000 Living Colour was reformed with Wimbish as the bass player and toured in the United States and in Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doug_Wimbish   (402 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Doug Wimbish
Together with Tackhead and as a session bassist, Wimbish found himself in demand as a bass player for many artists and was even asked by Mick Jagger to audition for membership of his group the Rolling Stones.
Wimbish joined Living Colour in 1992 to tour and record one album "Stain" not long after which the group was disbanded.
Wimbish is perhaps best known as the bassist in the house band of the legendary rap label Sugar Hill, backing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on their epochal Message album, among many others.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Doug-Wimbish   (513 words)

  
 Doug Wimbish from Living Colour - Interview
Wimbish has, for the record, been part of some of the most influential points in musical history, particularly as a permanent member of the Sugar Hill Gang, and yes, it is he who played that bass line on the now classic 'White Lines' by Grandmaster Flash.
Wimbish is reflective and philosophical, "Really, the band just needed to chill, probably before even I joined the band, they should have sat down and figured out exactly what they wanted to do.
Wimbish couldn't agree more, "It really was, man! For me, man, I come from a lot of different backgrounds, I've done a lot of music, man, Living Colour was just part of the chest at the time.
www.munkio.com /words/doug_wimbish.html   (1517 words)

  
 DOUG WIMBISH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Doug Wimbish è un giocatore basso del guitar, soprattutto conosciuto per il suo lavoro dell'studio per le annotazioni di Sugarhill dell'etichetta del luppolo di rap/hip ed il suo insieme dei membri del colore vivente della fascia.
Doug Wimbish iniziato a giocare guitar all'età di 12 e commutato al guitar basso all'età di 14.
Insieme a McDonald ed a LeBlanc, a Wimbish diretto a Londra in 1984 ed al funzionamento iniziato con il produttore Adrian Sherwood e formato il gruppo Tackhead.
www.facteri.com /wiki/it/do/Doug%20Wimbish.htm   (356 words)

  
 Living Colour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Doug hails from Hartford, Connecticut, but got his career started as many do: in New York City.
Wimbish, guitarist Skip McDonald, and drummer Keith LeBlanc began working on a variety of projects with Sherwood, including backing ex-Pop Group member Mark Stewart on his solo recordings and issuingtheir own 12" singles under the name Fats Comet.
Wimbish also reunited with Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun in the experimental funk/electronica trio Jungle Funk.
www.livingcolour.com /band/doug.htm   (492 words)

  
 Friedman, Kannenberg & Company, P.C. - News: Doug Wimbish
Bassist extraordinaire Doug Wimbish (also known as the "Stomp Box Guru") is the featured bassist in the June, 1999 issue of Bass Player magazine.
Doug has been the bass player for Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Seal, Carly Simon (just to name a few), is on last year's Rolling Stones "Bridges to Babylon" album.
Doug is currently on tour with Mos Def, Busta Rhymes and Living Colour, and is doing clinics with drummer and pal Will Cahoun in between tour dates.
www.fkco.com /nw-c07.html   (142 words)

  
 Dougwimbishnews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wimbish is scheduled to present on October 8, 2005.
Doug said that some of the material for the upcoming CD was recorded in Brussels and SKIP MCDONALD played an active role in the making of the CD scheduled for release on ENJA Records.
Doug Wimbish, in his quest for Premium Amplification, has journeyed once again to the wall, where power and clarity is defined - Trace Elliot.
www.lionelcrawford.com /dougwimbishnewspage.html   (947 words)

  
 tackhead.com: Doug Wimbish's solo album out now
Doug Wimbish's long awaited solo album 'Trippy Notes for Bass' has finally been released (on cd and double vinyl).
Doug Wimbish's solo-album has been announced years ago, but it never was released.
As said before, it's not the Doug Wimbish you would expect remembering his bas bombardments with Tackhead and the steaming funk he's making with Jungle Funk, although Doug's one man band in Just another minute (1:15) is very impressive.
www.tackhead.com /news/article/64   (388 words)

  
 tackhead.com: doug wimbish
Doug Wimbish grew up listening to the sounds of 60's and 70's music.
Given his first guitar at the age of 12, Doug initially played both guitar and bass, but at the age of 17 he discovered that the bass was where his passion lived.
Doug Wimbish released his first solo album, Trippy Notes for Bass, in 1999, apart from projects such as Jungle Funk and Black Jack Johnson (Mos Def, Bernie Worrell), that involve Living Colour mate Will Calhoun.
www.tackhead.com /soloheads/dougwimbish   (627 words)

  
 On-U Sound In The Area - Doug Wimbish discography
As well as his solo product and group releases as a 'leading-artist' listed here, Doug was the bass player on a large number of other Tackhead / Fats Comet productions.
Thought to be a demo-only release that, amongst other things, showcased some of the material later to gain full release on an album of the same name.
Features Doug Wimbish in collaboration with Vinx and Will Calhoun from Living Colour.
www.skysaw.org /onu/discography/dougwimbishdiscog.html   (493 words)

  
 Bassplaza.com/Basslinks.nl Forums - Famous - Doug Wimbish - Powered by BassPlaza-BB
Bloomfield born and raised, a suburb of Hartford.
Doug holds a special place in the world of Rap music that many people are unaware of.
Doug's done great stuff with Annie Lennox, Carly Simon, the late Michael Hutchence, Mick Jagger, Seal, and Madonna.
www.basslinks.nl /xmb/viewthread.php?tid=347   (291 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Doug Wimbish - HARTFORD, Connecticut - Dub / Drum & Bass / Electronica - www.myspace.com/dougwimbish
Doug hails from Bloomfield, CT, and it was there that he began playing guitar and bass.
Doug grew up to the sounds of the 60’s and 70’s and was inspired to play music by the sounds of Miles Davis, George Clinton, and Sly & the Family Stone.
Doug also co-wrote and played bass on a song that was written and produced by Kanye West and featured on the movie soundtrack for Brown Sugar starring Taye Diggs and Mos Def.
www.myspace.com /dougwimbish   (2999 words)

  
 Doug Wimbish in Bass Inside Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
To the public, one of his more high profile gigs for Doug has been his time with Living Colour after Muzz Skillings, their first bassist, chose to leave the band.
Doug has set his sites upon using his studio to give the kids some of these options, some courses and education for groups of kids at different ages, 5, 8, young teenagers up to 18-19 to show them how a studio works, how to engineer, record, make music.
More stuff than most music stores stock!) Doug is obviously in a period of high creativity and with a lot of irons in the fire.
www.bassinside.com /2003/march/doug.htm   (2175 words)

  
 Living Colour Web Blog: December 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sacred Ground see’s Doug Wimbish making all kinds of weird noises on electronic pads and it has to be said he was a revelation tonight.
It also highlighted the talents of bassist Doug Wimbish who, with all of his toys and gadgets, is one of the most interesting and innovative bass players around.
Wimbish, a long in-demand bassist who has performed on record and stage with everyone from the Rolling Stones to Madonna to Annie Lennox, released his solo set, "Trippy Notes for Bass," in 1999, and formed a pair of bands with drummer Will Calhoun, Headfake and Jungle Funk.
livingcolour.blogspot.com /2003_12_01_livingcolour_archive.html   (9446 words)

  
 Buy Rock House New Dimensions for Bass Featuring Doug Wimbish (DVD) online
Learn the basic rudiments that make up Doug Wimbish's one-of-a-kind sound and style-his personal warmups, right-hand variations, dynamics, false harmonics, and his famous "Flamingo Slap." He'll show you how to construct bass lines for any style of music.
Doug Wimbish's career spans more than 20 years as an innovator, collaborator, and explorer of a multitude of music genres including rap, hip-hop, rock, metal, funk, jam, disco, and dance.
Doug Wimbish is the man. He's the best bassist I know.
www.guitarcenter.com /shop/product/buy_rock_house_new_dimensions_for_bass_featuring_doug_wimbish_dvd?full_sku=103304366   (490 words)

  
 Keith Leblanc: Doug and Keith recording
Doug Wimbish is recording with former Lenny Kravitz drummer Cindy Blackman and he and Will Calhoun participate in the American tv show 'Studio Jams'.
Doug is working with Jimi Hendrix's engineer Eddie Cramer on Cindy Blackman's new album in Electric Lady Land Studios.
Doug announces the first album by Black Jack Johnson, the band in which he cooperates with Mos Def, Will Calhoun, Bernie Worrell and Dr. Know, for September, just after the release of the new Mos Def album, featuring of course Doug Wimbish on bass on at least one track.
www.keithleblanc.com /news/article/70   (224 words)

  
 DWB3 Doug Wimbish Signature Bass
First call New York City session man, Doug Wimbish (Living Colour, Mo Def) has a new groove for 2003.
Doug Wimbish Models DWB1 / DWB2 (Jan 28, 1999)
Doug Wimbish Featured on Rock House's New Instructional DVD (Apr 18, 2005)
namm.harmony-central.com /WNAMM03/Content/Ibanez/PR/DWB3.html   (363 words)

  
 Doug Wimbish: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Doug Wimbish: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
Those who know bassist Doug Wimbish from his work with Tackhead, Strange Parcels, and Jungle Funk may find his first solo album to be disconcertingly tame.
Where his playing in most previous contexts has been wild, funky, and sometimes anarchic, drawing freely on jazz, dub, and punk influences, here he's in an almost contemplative mood.
www.music.com /person/doug_wimbish/1   (440 words)

  
 alchemy design | Web Design: Doug Wimbish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
You've heard Doug Wimbish play the bass, but you probably don't know it.
From his early days with 'Sugarhill Records', Doug has gone on to perform live with and on albums by Madonna, Seal, The Rolling Stones, Living Colour, Mos Def, Paula Cole and many more.
When Doug moved back to his native Hartford, Connecticut, He met up with Alchemy and explained that he needed a website to reach his fans world-wide.
www.alchemywebdesign.com /web_dw.html   (109 words)

  
 tackhead.com: Doug Wimbish's own MySpace
Doug Wimbish has opened up his own page at MySpace.
Doug's page is loaded with info on the 'journey man bassplayer' and there are a couple of audiofiles.
Doug promises to put up some more goodies for the fans in the near future.
www.tackhead.com /news/article/197   (129 words)

  
 Doug Wimbish's 2nd Annual WIM-BASH - Hartford, CT (8/05/06)
I saw a local act called HUMP, a four-girl folk band that included a guitarist, bassist and percussionist…all the girls are singers and the performance included a performance by two additional people, a little 7-year-old girl named Nova Wimbish (Doug’s daughter) and a 13-year-old female guitar virtuoso.
Doug Wimbish in his psychotic, out-of-space bass romping!
Doug Wimbish came out with Wil Calhoun around 12:00 midnight, a keyboardist and a guitarist to perform a 20 minute set…it was a long jam that featured some of Doug’s nasty psychotic, mind-bending bass riffs (sometimes some hardcore slap-bass, sometimes more lead guitar-sounding, sometimes more like Bernie Worrell’s insane WOO sounds).
www.brookenstein.com /wimbash-080506.html   (576 words)

  
 Harmony Central®: Doug Wimbish Featured on Rock House's New Instructional DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Doug Wimbish's career spans more than 20 years as an innovator, collaborator and explorer of a multitude of music genres including Rap, Hip-Hop, Rock, Metal, Funk, Jam, Disco and Dance.
Doug Wimbish Featured on Rock House's New Instructional DVD (Apr 18, 2005)
Doug Wimbish Models DWB1 / DWB2 (Jan 28, 1999)
news.harmony-central.com /Newp/2005/New-Dimensions-for-Bass.html   (423 words)

  
 InnerViews
Doug Wimbish: Rock To Rap He's Banging The Bass
Most people know Vernon as Living Colour's  guitarist, standing stage left, from an audiance viewpoint,  crunching out rhythms and blazing through linear solo phrases on the opposite side of Doug Wimbish, right next to Corey Glover and sometimes right in front of Will Calhoun.
Well, he is still in that position, but as Living Colour 's  American, European and South American tours ended this year, Vernon hit the road with his latest project, Masque.
www.lionelcrawford.com /innerviews.html   (816 words)

  
 Ibanez DWB-35 BBL Doug Wimbish E-Bass inkl. Gigbag :J&M: bedeutende Freedom zufrieden
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 Doug Wimbish Discography and Music at CD Universe
Cole (pedal steel guitar); Doug Wimbish (bass); Keith LeBlanc, Gota Yashiki (drums); Danny Cummings, Victor Endrizzio, Jaki Liebezeit (percussion); Daniel Miller.
Accomplished and innovative bassist Doug Wimbish, who has played with legends like the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Living Colour, hosts this helpful 90-minute program, in which he shares invaluable tips and advice on variations, warm-ups, harmonics, style, bass line construction,...
Direct from the popular synth-pop band the Eurythmics, Annie Lennox spreads her artistic wings on DIVA.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Wimbish%2C+Doug/a/Doug+Wimbish.htm   (219 words)

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