Four mighty strings and 55 mighty players: the best bassists are the ones who carve out signature sounds and play as many memorable licks as the guitarists. Four mighty strings, 55 mighty players.

Spanning all genres and generations, narrowing down the 25 best bass players of all time is never easy. We gave it a go. Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access ...

The bass player is traditionally the “quiet one ... and even a few dazzling solos. In this list of the best prog rock bassists ever, we jump into the deep end, and salute the four-stringers ...

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth — “Youth Against Fascism” Kim Gordon has put out some great bass lines that help build the scaffolding for Sonic Youth’s best songs. “Youth Against Fascism ...

The Rush frontman charts his experiments in bass tone, and why he'd sometimes tackle the instrument like a lead guitarist ...

There's only one Basketball Hall of Famer on this list (so far), and Mourning takes the top spot as the greatest player to ever come through the Bass Pro Tournament of Champions. Zo was a beast ...