Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "If you couldn't play that solo, from that record you weren't a bass player – you couldn't get a gig," says bass ace Nate Watts ...

Acknowledged as James Jamerson’s understudy and eventual successor at Motown, the late Bob Babbitt appeared on over 200 Top 40 hits, including The Capitols’ Cool Jerk, Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, ...

DETROIT (AP) — Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The ...

Bass solos don't get the attention that lead guitar solos so often get. Big-name guitarists such as Slash, Jimmy Page and Zakk Wylde are the ones out there, serving up crowd-pleasing guitar solos on a ...

It's February of 1978, and 26-year-old Bob Babbitt—who's been (in his own words) "racing triathlons way back when the earth was still cooling"—has a front-row seat to the world's very first Ironman ...

Bob Babbitt, a bass player for Motown's studio band the Funk Brothers, died at 7:15 a.m. Monday in a Nashville hospice, according to his son, Joe Kreinar. Babbitt was 74. That's him on Del Shannon's ...

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SFuels LLC, a leader in endurance sport nutrition is honored to announce that triathlon industry icon Bob Babbitt has joined the advisory board. As one of ...

San Diego Paralympic athletes, along with cofounder of the Challenged Athletes Foundation, Bob Babbitt, are gearing up for the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. Babbitt was live on KUSI just before ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” died ...