THE FILM

Club Bonafide, New York City. Nick Wells (iBass Magazine) has left his UK office, and travelled to Manhattan to discover how a studio musician from Miami (Will Lee) and a balafon player from Minta, Cameroon (Richard Bona), have each used the bass guitar to define their low-end artistry. Travelling to Fodera Guitars in Brooklyn, Sadowsky Guitars in Long Island City and Aguilar Amplification in Manhattan’s Soho district – featuring interviews with the likes of Billy Sheehan, Bootsy Collins, Duff McKagan, Felix Pastorius, John Patitucci, Larry Graham, Marcus Miller, Michael League, Nathan East and Stanley Clarke, this superb documentary gives you access to some of the most incredible bass players on the planet, delving into their influences and charting several landmarks in the instrument’s history. From first frame to last, you won’t know what hit you.