My Life in the Purple Kingdom, the debut book by bassist BrownMark, detailing his time with Prince. Back in 2017, I had the great pleasure of...
My Life in the Purple Kingdom… University of Minnesota Press to publish My Life in the Purple Kingdom, a memoir of Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing...
BrownMark plays bass with The Revolution. In 1981, BrownMark made his debut with Prince on the “Controversy” tour. For seven and a half years, he honed...
Bassist BrownMark News – THE REVOLUTION, the band Prince himself formed, has completed its first run of dates and now sets out on the second leg of...
Prince’s Last Bassist… MonoNeon… I remember Prince saying to me, “I saw you before I heard you.” I first got to Paisley Park early 2015 –...
Prince – Let’s Work… Some very rare and unusual thing is going on digthatbass.com – a SLAP bass lesson just appeared from nowhere! Wow! …And the...
Andrew Gouche – The Power of Soul by Steve Gregory: Bass Musician Magazine January 2013… It would be completely understandable if Mr. Andrew Gouche came across...
Raise Up by Larry Graham and Graham Central Station… Great news! Funk is alive and well and seriously kicking hard! Just listen to even a little...
Six words quickly come to mind in describing up-and-coming bassist Nik West: the girl’s got it goin’ on. The Phoenix funkstress has been quietly, or maybe...
The Funky Bass Book… Do you remember when one of the major television networks was hyping the re-runs they were showing with a, “If you haven’t...
Larry Graham: The Godfather Of Funk Bass, Interview by Rick Suchow Additional Comments by Marcus Miller There is really no other way to explain Larry Graham’s place...