Doug Wimbish
Encyclopedia
Doug Wimbish is a bass
player, primarily known for his studio
work for the rap/hip hop
label
Sugarhill Records
and his membership of the funk metal
band Living Colour
. He has played for a vast range of artist
s, including Jeff Beck
, Mick Jagger
, Madonna
, George Clinton
, Paula Cole
, Bomb the Bass
, Depeche Mode
, Joe Satriani
, Mos Def
and Tarja Turunen
. Wimbish is considered to be a pioneer in hip hop bass playing and in the use of bass effect
s, alternate tunings and extended hand techniques.
, Connecticut
, Wimbish started playing guitar
at the age of 12 and switched to bass guitar
at the age of 14. In 1979 he was hired together with guitarist
Skip McDonald and drummer
Keith LeBlanc
to form the house rhythm section
for Sugarhill Records
. Although they did not play on the Sugar Hill Gang's famous song "Rapper's Delight
" (the rhythm tracks for this song were played by the group Positive Force), they did play on many other famous tracks, for example "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
, "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
, "New York, New York" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and "Apache
" by the Sugarhill Gang.
Together with McDonald and LeBlanc, Wimbish headed to London
in 1984 and started working with producer Adrian Sherwood
and formed the group Tackhead
. Together with Tackhead and as a session
bassist, Wimbish found himself in demand as a bass player for many artists and was considered as a permanent sideman for the Rolling Stones after the departure of bassist Bill Wyman
in 1993; although the job went to Darryl Jones
, Wimbish later played on the Stones' 1997 album Bridges to Babylon
. Wimbish joined Living Colour
in 1992 (he replaced Muzz Skillings
, who left the band) to tour and record the album, Stain.
Living Colour disbanded in 1995, and Wimbish joined his old Sugar Hill Gang partners to play in Little Axe
, an ambient-dub project initiated by Skip 'Little Axe' MacDonald.
After the disbandment of Living Colour, Wimbish went back to London to continue his career as a studio
bassist
. In 1999 he formed the drum and bass
group Jungle Funk together with drummer Will Calhoun
and percussionist/vocalist Vinx. Also in 1999, Wimbish solo album Trippy Notes for Bass was released. In 2000, Living Colour was reformed with Wimbish as the bass player and toured in the United States
and in Europe
(original bassist Muzz Skillings
was not part of the line up). In 2001 and 2002 Wimbish recorded and played with rapper Mos Def
in a band called BlackJack Johnson, which also featured members of P-Funk and Bad Brains in the lineup.
Wimbish also formed Head>>Fake, a drum and bass
project with drummer Will Calhoun
. They released a CD, In The Area. In 2005 they started recording new songs. The recording took place in Brussels
, Belgium
and was followed by an extensive European tour. The CD has never been released. A Head>>Fake DVD was released in 2008. It features a recording of a Head>>Fake concert in Prague
.
In 2008 Doug Wimbish' second solo album was released through Enja Records: CinemaSonics.
Doug has also featured on four Little Axe
albums with Alan Glen
on Harmonica.
With Living Colour
With Tackhead
With Little Axe
With other artists
DVD
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
player, primarily known for his studio
Studio
A studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or the catchall term for an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, radio or television...
work for the rap/hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
label
Label
A label is a piece of paper, polymer, cloth, metal, or other material affixed to a container or article, on which is printed a legend, information concerning the product, addresses, etc. A label may also be printed directly on the container or article....
Sugarhill Records
Sugar Hill Records (rap)
Sugar Hill Records was the name of a rap music record label that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records.-History:...
and his membership of the funk metal
Funk metal
Funk metal is a subgenre of funk rock that fuses elements of heavy metal and funk. Allmusic has claimed that "funk metal evolved in the mid-'80s when alternative bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Infectious Grooves, Mordred and Fishbone began playing the hybrid with a stronger...
band Living Colour
Living Colour
Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...
. He has played for a vast range of artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s, including Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
, Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
, Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
, George Clinton
George Clinton (funk musician)
George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...
, Paula Cole
Paula Cole
Paula Cole is an American singer/songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.-Early life:...
, Bomb the Bass
Bomb the Bass
Bomb the Bass is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and producer, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as electronic or dance....
, Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
, Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
, Mos Def
Mos Def
Dante Terrell Smith is an American actor and Emcee known by the stage names Mos Def and Yasiin Bey. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, which...
and Tarja Turunen
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....
. Wimbish is considered to be a pioneer in hip hop bass playing and in the use of bass effect
Effect
Effect may refer to:* A result or change of something** List of effects** Cause and effect, an idiom describing causalityIn pharmacy and pharmacology:* Drug effect, a change resulting from the administration of a drug...
s, alternate tunings and extended hand techniques.
Life
Born in HartfordHartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
, Wimbish started playing guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
at the age of 12 and switched to bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
at the age of 14. In 1979 he was hired together with guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Skip McDonald and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Keith LeBlanc
Keith Leblanc
Keith Leblanc is an American drummer and record producer, and is a member of the bands Little Axe and Tackhead.His record, "No Sell Out", was the first sample based record. His career started out on Sugar Hill Records recording with rap pioneers, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Melle...
to form the house rhythm section
Rhythm section
A rhythm section is a collection of musicians who make up a section of instruments which provides the accompaniment section of the music, giving the music its rhythmic texture and pulse, also serving as a rhythmic reference for the rest of the band...
for Sugarhill Records
Sugar Hill Records (rap)
Sugar Hill Records was the name of a rap music record label that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records.-History:...
. Although they did not play on the Sugar Hill Gang's famous song "Rapper's Delight
Rapper's Delight
"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world. The song's opening lyric "I said a hip hop, a...
" (the rhythm tracks for this song were played by the group Positive Force), they did play on many other famous tracks, for example "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was an influential American hip-hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978. Composed of one DJ and five rappers Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was an influential American hip-hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in...
, "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
Melle Mel
Grandmaster Mele Mel , also known as Melle Mel , is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.- Biography :...
, "New York, New York" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and "Apache
Apache (instrumental)
"Apache" is an instrumental written by Jerry Lordan. It has been recorded by many people, but the first released version was recorded by British group The Shadows in June 1960 and released the following month. The song topped the UK singles chart for five weeks...
" by the Sugarhill Gang.
Together with McDonald and LeBlanc, Wimbish headed to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
in 1984 and started working with producer Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood is an English record producer best known for his work with dub music as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode, The Woodentops, Primal Scream, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sinéad O'Connor, and Skinny Puppy...
and formed the group Tackhead
Tackhead
Tackhead are an industrial hip-hop group that were most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, industrial music and electronica intersect...
. Together with Tackhead and as a session
Session
-Bureaucracy:*Executive session, a portion of the United States Senate's daily session*Legislative session*Session *Session , a governing body in Presbyterian polity*Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland...
bassist, Wimbish found himself in demand as a bass player for many artists and was considered as a permanent sideman for the Rolling Stones after the departure of bassist Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...
in 1993; although the job went to Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones , also known as "The Munch", is an American bass guitarist. Jones began his notable career as a session musician, where he gained the experience and confidence to play with some of the most highly regarded recording artists, in jazz, blues, and rock music...
, Wimbish later played on the Stones' 1997 album Bridges to Babylon
Bridges to Babylon
Bridges to Babylon is a studio album by British rock band The Rolling Stones, released by Virgin Records on 29 September 1997. It would prove to be the band's final studio album of the 1990s and their last full-length release of new songs until 2005's A Bigger Bang...
. Wimbish joined Living Colour
Living Colour
Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...
in 1992 (he replaced Muzz Skillings
Muzz Skillings
Muzz Skillings is an American bassist, singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for having been the original bassist with Living Colour....
, who left the band) to tour and record the album, Stain.
Living Colour disbanded in 1995, and Wimbish joined his old Sugar Hill Gang partners to play in Little Axe
Little Axe
Little Axe is the stage name of Skip McDonald an American blues musician. McDonald played jazz, doo-wop, and gospel when young, and moved to New York as a teenager with his band of friends, called The Entertainers.Axe joined the group Wood Brass & Steel in 1973 with bassist Doug Wimbish and...
, an ambient-dub project initiated by Skip 'Little Axe' MacDonald.
After the disbandment of Living Colour, Wimbish went back to London to continue his career as a studio
Studio
A studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or the catchall term for an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, radio or television...
bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
. In 1999 he formed the drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
group Jungle Funk together with drummer Will Calhoun
Will Calhoun
Will Calhoun is an American drummer, who graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music.-Career:...
and percussionist/vocalist Vinx. Also in 1999, Wimbish solo album Trippy Notes for Bass was released. In 2000, Living Colour was reformed with Wimbish as the bass player and toured in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
(original bassist Muzz Skillings
Muzz Skillings
Muzz Skillings is an American bassist, singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for having been the original bassist with Living Colour....
was not part of the line up). In 2001 and 2002 Wimbish recorded and played with rapper Mos Def
Mos Def
Dante Terrell Smith is an American actor and Emcee known by the stage names Mos Def and Yasiin Bey. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, which...
in a band called BlackJack Johnson, which also featured members of P-Funk and Bad Brains in the lineup.
Wimbish also formed Head>>Fake, a drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
project with drummer Will Calhoun
Will Calhoun
Will Calhoun is an American drummer, who graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music.-Career:...
. They released a CD, In The Area. In 2005 they started recording new songs. The recording took place in Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and was followed by an extensive European tour. The CD has never been released. A Head>>Fake DVD was released in 2008. It features a recording of a Head>>Fake concert in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
.
In 2008 Doug Wimbish' second solo album was released through Enja Records: CinemaSonics.
Doug has also featured on four Little Axe
Little Axe
Little Axe is the stage name of Skip McDonald an American blues musician. McDonald played jazz, doo-wop, and gospel when young, and moved to New York as a teenager with his band of friends, called The Entertainers.Axe joined the group Wood Brass & Steel in 1973 with bassist Doug Wimbish and...
albums with Alan Glen
Alan Glen
Alan Glen is a British blues harmonica player, best known for his work with The Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero, Little Axe, and his own bands, The Barcodes and The Incredible Blues Puppies.-Career:...
on Harmonica.
Effects
This list includes Wimbish's on the floor and live rack.- TC Electronic 2290 Digital Delay
- Sans Amp D1 Bass Driver
- Sans Amp GT2
- Sans Amp Vintage
- Danelectro Daddy-O
- Digitech Whammy Pedal
- Dunlop Crybaby
- Boss Bass Synth
- Boss Flanger
- Boss Digital reverb/delay
- Boss DD3 Digital Delay
- Boss FV50 Volume pedal
- Boss TU12 Chrom. tuner
- Voodoo Lab Proctavia
- Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe
- Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power
- D.O.D. Envelope Filter
- Line 6 Delay
- Digitech 2112 Delay unit
- Digitech IPS33B pitch transposer
- Yamaha REX50
- Planet Phatt
- Sennheiser Wireless Units
- Line 6 distortion
- Line 6 modulator
- Digitech 256XL
Discography
Solo work- Jungle Funk (1998)
- Trippy Notes for Bass (1999)
- CinemaSonics (2008)
With Living Colour
Living Colour
Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, and heavy metal...
- StainStain (album)Stain is the third album by Living Colour. It was released on March 2, 1993, by Epic Records. It is the first album to feature bassist Doug Wimbish. Stain features a much heavier and aggressive Living Colour, containing elements of thrash metal and industrial music...
(1993) - PridePridePride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings. With a negative connotation, pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris...
1995) - CollideøscopeCollideøscope-Personnel:* Corey Glover – vocals* Vernon Reid – guitar* Doug Wimbish – bass* Will Calhoun – drums...
(2003) - The Chair in the DoorwayThe Chair in the Doorway-Personnel:* Corey Glover – lead and background vocals* Vernon Reid – electric, electronic and acoustic guitars; laptop, sound design and background vocals on "That's What You Taught Me"* Doug Wimbish – bass and ambience; guitar, beats vocals...
(2009)
With Tackhead
Tackhead
Tackhead are an industrial hip-hop group that were most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, industrial music and electronica intersect...
- Tape Time (1987)
- En Concert (1988)
- Friendly As Hand Grenade (1989)
- Strange Things (1990)
- Power inc. vol. 1 -- Compil. (1993)
- Power inc. vol. 2 -- Compil. (1993)
- Strange Parcels as Disconnection (1994)
- Power inc. vol. 3 -- Live From 1985 to 1997 (1997)
- Sound Crash -- Compil. (2006)
- Sharehead -- very limited edition (2010)
With Little Axe
- The Wolf That House Built (1995)
- Slow Fuse (1996)
- Hard Grind (2002)
- Champagne & Grits (2004)
- Stone Cold Ohio (2006)
- Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime (2010)
With other artists
- Mark StewartMark Stewart (musician)Mark Stewart is a British musician and founding member of The Pop Group. A pioneer of industrial hip-hop, he has recorded for On-U Sound Records and Mute Records.-Career:...
and the MaffiaTackheadTackhead are an industrial hip-hop group that were most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, industrial music and electronica intersect...
- As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade (1985) - Mark Stewart and the Maffia - Mark Stewart (1987)
- Mick JaggerMick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
- Primitive CoolPrimitive CoolPrimitive Cool is the second solo album by The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and was released in 1987. As the follow-up to Jagger's 1985 success She's the Boss, Primitive Cool was another attempt by Mick to make him a solo star, being more ambitious...
(1987) - Mark Stewart and the Maffia - Metatron (1990)
- SealSeal (musician)Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...
- SealSeal (1991 album)Seal is Seal's eponymous 1991 debut album and contained the UK singles: "Killer" , "Crazy", "Future Love Paradise", "The Beginning" and "Violet"...
(1991) - Annie LennoxAnnie LennoxAnnie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
- DIVADivaA diva is a celebrated female singer. The term is used to describe a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and, by extension, in theatre, cinema and popular music. The meaning of diva is closely related to that of "prima donna"....
(1992) - MadonnaMadonna (entertainer)Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
- Erotica (1992) - Joe SatrianiJoe SatrianiJoseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
- The ExtremistThe ExtremistThe Extremist is an instrumental rock album released by Joe Satriani in 1992 and re-released in 1997 with his entire Epic Records catalog....
(1992) - Little AnnieLittle AnnieLittle Annie Bandez is an American singer, songwriter, painter, and stage actor...
- Short and SweetShort and Sweet (album)Short and Sweet is a 1992 album recorded by the American singer Little Annie .The album was produced by Adrian Sherwood for his On-U Sound productions and features members of Tackhead, notably the guitarist Skip McDonald and bassist Doug Wimbish.The track "Bless Those " was re-recorded by Living...
(1992) - Billy IdolBilly IdolWilliam Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...
- CyberpunkCyberpunk (album)Cyberpunk is a concept album by English rock musician Billy Idol, released in 1993 by Chrysalis Records. Inspired by his personal interest in technology and his first attempts to use computers in the creation of his music, Idol based the album on the cyberdelic subculture of the late 80s and early...
(1993) - Mick Jagger - Wandering SpiritWandering Spirit (album)Wandering Spirit is the third solo album by Mick Jagger. Released in 1993, it was his only solo album release of the 1990s.Following the The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels , Jagger began writing new material for what would become Wandering Spirit...
(1993) - Joe Satriani - Time MachineTime Machine (album)Time Machine is a double instrumental rock album released by Joe Satriani in 1993. The first CD comprises new, unreleased, and rare studio recordings, while the second one comprises live recordings pulled from tours in 1988 and 1992.The song "Speed of Light", an unused song from the sessions for...
(1993) - Annie Lennox - MedusaMedusa (Annie Lennox album)Medusa is the second solo album by the Scottish singer Annie Lennox, released in March 1995. It consists solely of cover songs, all originally recorded by male artists. It entered the UK album chart at No. 1 and peaked in the US at number 11, spending 60 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. It has...
(1995) - Depeche ModeDepeche ModeDepeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
- Ultra (1997) - Rolling Stones - Bridges to BabylonBridges to BabylonBridges to Babylon is a studio album by British rock band The Rolling Stones, released by Virgin Records on 29 September 1997. It would prove to be the band's final studio album of the 1990s and their last full-length release of new songs until 2005's A Bigger Bang...
(1997) - Mos DefMos DefDante Terrell Smith is an American actor and Emcee known by the stage names Mos Def and Yasiin Bey. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, which...
- Black on Both SidesBlack on Both SidesBlack on Both Sides is the debut solo album of American rapper Mos Def, released October 12, 1999 on Rawkus Records. Prior to the album's recording, Mos Def had collaborated with rapper Talib Kweli for the duo's studio album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star , which raised high expectations for...
(1999) - Dhafer YoussefDhafer YoussefDhafer Youssef is a composer, singer and oud player. He developed an interest in jazz at an early age and clandestinely listened to it during his education at a Qur'anic school. He later left Tunisia to start a jazz career and has lived in Europe since 1990, usually in Paris or Vienna. He also...
- Electric Sufi (2002) - Fernanda PortoFernanda PortoFernanda Porto, or Maria Fernanda Dutra Clemente , is a Brazilian singer of Drum 'n' Bossa, a genre that is the combination of electronic music and bossa nova in allusion to the Drum 'n' Bass genre....
- Giramundo (2005) - John McCarthy - "Drive" (2006)
- TarjaTarja TurunenTarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....
- My Winter StormMy Winter StormMy Winter Storm is the second solo album by Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, and the first to consist mainly of new and original songs specifically written by or for Turunen...
(2007) - Petteri Sariola - PhasesPhases (album)Phases is a box set compiling the first nine studio albums by The Who, as well as the acclaimed Live at Leeds album, in LP form. This box set was only released in the United Kingdom....
(2009) - TarjaTarja TurunenTarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....
- What Lies Beneath (2010)
DVD
- Head Fake in the Area of Prague (2008) (released on Dude rec. / camera, edit, director tomato22)
External links
- Doug Wimbish's Instructional DVD NEW DIMENSIONS FOR BASS, produced by The Rock House Method
- Doug Wimbish's homepage
- Doug Wimbish Official myspace
- Discography at unofficial On-U Sound website
- Profile at unofficial On-U Sound website
- „head>>fake“ extended Interview with Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun for radio orange94.0 stream (October 2008)
- Doug Wimbish interview at allaboutjazz.com