Bass Player
USACurrently published by Future plc with other guitar magazines like Guitarist, Guitar Player, Guitar Techniques, Guitar World, Total Guitar and Australian Guitar.
If you've never heard Scott Thunes play the bass, you can't appreciate how far the instrument can be taken. Thunes will dispute that notion, of course-he takes issue with the idea he's a great bassist. The former Frank Zappa sideman (whose surname is pronounced TOOness) is a contrarian of the highest order. He disagrees with almost any statement of a declarative nature, at least when it concerns his role in music and his approach to the bass. He' s of the opinion that much of the brilliant live work he recorded with Zappa is riddled with mistakes, each of which he's apt to point out in exacting detail. (read more)
Source: eBay, archive.org
2007 May
Arthur Barrow. Audition Absurdities: Frank Zappa's "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast"
By Bryan Beller, pp 75-76
2009 April
Frank Zappa's "Alien Orifice"
Scott Thunes's complete bass line
By Bryan Beller, pp 56-59, 70
Kids These Days
By Scott Thunes, p 80
Source: slime.oofytv.set
