BassPlayer 2017-01
BassPlayer 2017-01
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F<br />
Bass Player Live!<br />
Aguilar<br />
president Dave<br />
Boonshoft<br />
cheers on<br />
George Porter<br />
Jr.’s BP Lifetime<br />
Award after<br />
speaking on<br />
behalf of the<br />
funk legend.<br />
theater at Musicians Institute for the annual Saturday night<br />
BPL All-Star Concert. Aguilar president Dave Boonshoft and<br />
producer Jonathan Shank began the festivities with a few words<br />
about George Porter Jr., before Randy Jackson spoke and presented<br />
the funk forefather with his Lifetime Award. Porter then<br />
performed a pulsating set featuring his trio (with keyboardist<br />
Michael Lemmler and drummer Terrance Houston) and guest<br />
bassists Tal Wilkenfeld and Jerry Jemmott. An interlude featured<br />
a short film on Stonefield Basses introduced by Stonefield<br />
president Tomm Stanley and Freekbass, with Freekbass returning<br />
to play off the clip. For the concert’s second half—Billy Sheehan’s<br />
segment—Stanley Clarke emerged to speak about Billy<br />
and present him with his award. Sheehan’s trio with guitarist<br />
Richie Kotzen and drummer Michael Bennett then rocked the<br />
house, and at the conclusion, Sheehan brought on senior Ampeg<br />
product specialist Dino Monoxelos. The two lauded Tim Bogert,<br />
best known for his groundbreaking work with Vanilla Fudge,<br />
Cactus, and Beck, Bogert & Appice. Tim was unable to appear<br />
to accept his Lifetime Award due to illness (Monoxelos delivered<br />
it two days later to a grateful Bogert). To close the night,<br />
Steve Bailey revived his BPL-jam MD role, leading Sheehan, Korn<br />
drummer Ray Luzier, guitarist Tommy Baldwin, dUg Pinnick (on<br />
lead vocals), Rex Brown, Gerald Veasley, Hadrien Feraud, Brian<br />
Bromberg, and Sekou Bunch though a pair of Bogert-related<br />
(From top) Beatlemania<br />
and beyond: the<br />
Hofner booth; School<br />
days: Stanley Clarke<br />
presents Billy Sheehan<br />
with his BP Lifetime<br />
Achievement Award;<br />
one neck, four hands:<br />
Tal Wilkenfeld sits in<br />
with George Porter Jr.<br />
on “Africa” at the BP<br />
All-Star Concert;<br />
a dozen deep-end<br />
delights in the ESP<br />
booth; studio savants:<br />
Sean Hurley, Bob<br />
Glaub, Chris Chaney,<br />
and Kaveh Rastegar in<br />
the Session Bass Hang<br />
clinic.<br />
(Above) Green room<br />
gab: Larry Klein,<br />
Bob Glaub, Armand<br />
Sabal-Lecco, Steve<br />
Bailey, Justin<br />
Meldal-Johnsen,<br />
Chris Chaney, and<br />
Mike Elizondo.<br />
(Right) Who’s the<br />
boss?: Anna Sentina<br />
at the Boss booth.<br />
34 bassplayer.com / january<strong>2<strong>01</strong>7</strong>
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