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Blast Cult t-shirts available!

The Blast Cult just made some cool new t-shirts and they are available for sale! They are very high quality, fitted shirts and not...
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New video of Kevin Smith with Willie Nelson!

Great slap bass player (and member of The Art of Slap Bass forum) Kevin Smith plays with Willie Nelson's new Western Swing project that...
Chester Zardis, little bear, slaps his upright bass

Chester Zardis

An initial idea to write, now legendary, article New Orleans String Bass Pioneers, that came out in December 1990, Daniel Meyer had...
joe mauldin bass player for buddy holly dies

Joe Mauldin, bassist for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, dies February...

Joe B. Mauldin, the bassist for Buddy Holly's Crickets died from cancer in Nashville today. He was 74. Mauldin and fellow Crickets Allison, Sonny Curtis...
nicolas dubouche plays double bass in song willie dixons boogie for art of slap bass

Dubouchet’s video reaches 10.000 views!!!

Thank you all for checking out Nicolas Dubouchet's video "Dixon's Boogie" on AOSB channel! It reached 10.000 views today! There are many mediocre slap bass...
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New Ray Campi Interview

We had an honor to interview one of rare players that kept tradition of slap bass alive in the 1970's - Ray Campi! He was...

Thelma Terry, A Bass Player To Remember

Thelma Terry, double bass player and band leader; she held her bass with a firm understanding of its abilities. She stepped...

RIP Guybo

Guybo on bass guitar The legendary Eddie Cochran's bass player Fred Conrad Smith unexpectedly passed away this morning at 7.20am...
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Jimmy Sutton on tour in Europe!

Great slap bass player (and member of AOSB) Jimmy Sutton will be on tour in Europe with Deke Dickerson from July 4th to July...
Al Rex, slap bassist from Saddlemen and Comets

RIP Al Rex

One of the last original rock'n'roll slappers Al Rex passed quietly (not related to Covid-19) in his sleep at his...