Roy Vogt is a professional electric bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and upright bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

 player who took up the instrument in Texas at 14, inspired by Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...

, Jack Cassidy

Jack Cassidy

John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy was an American actor of stage, film and screen.His frequent professional persona was that of an urbane, super-confident egotist with a dramatic flair, much in the manner of Broadway actor Frank Fay...

, Chris Hillman

Hillman

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 and Noel Redding

Noel Redding

Noel Redding was an English rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Biography:...

. His first mentor, Dallas bassist Ed Garcia, turned him onto the playing of Ray Brown

Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown was an American jazz double bassist.-Biography:Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one...

 and Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...

 and detoured the young bassist into jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and fusion

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

. Vogt worked in a variety of Rock, Funk and Country bands in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area until he joined the Texas fusion band Aurora.

This led to gigs opening for Larry Coryell and the LA Express and allowed Vogt to meet and learn from Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...

, Miroslav Vitous

Miroslav Vitouš

Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...

, and Max Bennett. The music of the Dixie Dregs

Dixie Dregs

The Dixie Dregs are an American band formed in the 1970s. Their mostly instrumental music fuses jazz, southern rock, bluegrass and classical forms in an often unique style.-Formation and early years:...

, Mark Egan

Mark Egan

Mark Egan is an American jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, arguably best known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980, and the Gil Evans Orchestra...

 with Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

, and Jaco Pastorius

Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....

 led Vogt to the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

 Jazz program, where he received the first Masters in Electric Bass Performance awarded in the US in 1980.

In 1980, Vogt moved to Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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 where he has worked with the Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts

Dickey Betts

Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and also won with the band a best rock performance Grammy Award for his...

, country guitarist Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...

, and a host of major label Rock, Country, Contemporary Christian, and Pop acts. He was the staff bassist on Channel 4 magazine (WSMV-NBC) from 1983-1987 and has taught at Belmont University

Belmont University

Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is the largest Christian university in Tennessee and the second largest private university in the state, behind nearby Vanderbilt University.-Belmont Mansion:Belmont Mansion...

 since 1983. He is also involved in the new Nashville Bass Institute.

He also transcribed the Bass Extremes

Bass Extremes

Bass Extremes is the name of a collection of works by bassists Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey. It has been released as on CD, video, and in a book of sheet music and tablature. The book was transcribed by Roy Vogt....

 book with the duets of Victor Wooten

Victor Wooten

Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards....

 and Steve Bailey

Steve Bailey

Steve Bailey is an American bassist who is famous for his pioneering work with the six string fretless bass. He was voted runner up for "Bass Player Of The Year" in 1994 and 1996....

. He has also taught many Nashville-based bassists such as Justin Smith

Justin Smith

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, Mark Golden, Alan O.W. Barnes (though Barnes has since relocated to Atlanta), Rich Brinsfield, Matthew Haussler, Chris Dunn

Chris Dunn

Christopher Michael Dunn is an English football goalkeeper, who plays for Championship club Coventry City.-Career:...

 and many others.

Vogt is married and lives in rural Tennessee with his wife Dee Dee, his son, 3 dogs, 2 cats and a motley assortment of basses.

Discography

• Stan Lassiter Group -"Psychic Sweat" (Castle CA 4870)
• Bass Talk 6:Deep Impact Ahead -"Victor-ious" (with Victor Wooten on Hotwire Records EFA 12843-2)
• Andy Gerome - "Miles of Horizon" (Town Hall Music HTM 998)
• Aurora - (Shroom SP 99007)
• Tachoir -"Vision" (Avita Records CD-1006)
• The Group Tachoir - "Beyond Stereotype" (Avita CD-1008)
• Angela Kaset - "Sanctuary" (Winter Harvest WH3307-2)
• Jonelle Mosser - "Around Townes" (Winter Harvest WH3308-2)
• Mickey Newbury - Lulled by Moonlight

Videography

• Roy Vogt - Electric Bass Master Study Series
• Getting the Most Out of 5 String Bass (Superchops 4 Bass VRV-35)
• Getting the Most Out of 6 String Bass (Superchops 4 Bass VRV-36)
• The Day the Bass Players Took Over the World (With Dave Pomeroy
  Dave Pomeroy
  Dave Pomeroy is a United States musician, known as a Nashville vocalist, songwriter, and producer , but is best known as a bassist. He has played electric and acoustic bass in the studio for many recording artists in addition to his solo and concert work...
  
  and the All-Bass Orchestra on Earwave EAW-106)

External links

• http://www.royvogt.com