Before the Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman needed a good bass guitar – so he built a proto-fretless model. Jackson Maxwell. Thu, December 5, 2024 at 5:25 PM UTC. 2 min read.

For 30 years, Bill Wyman stood in the shadows of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, anchoring the titanic riffs and ramshackle grooves of the Rolling Stones. “Like it or not, the bass, in my view ...

After World War II, Wyman took a job as a carpenter and taught himself bass guitar in his spare time, according to IMDb. In 1962, Wyman auditioned to be the bassist for the Rolling Stones and won ...

Bill Wyman reunited with the Rolling Stones on their Hackney Diamonds album, ... “I’d seen Gibson and Fender bass guitars in pictures of Little Richard’s and Fats Domino’s bands, ...

Throughout his 30-year tenure with the Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman teamed up with drummer Charlie Watts to form one of rock's most solid rhythm sections, driving such Stones classics as (I Can't ...

Bill Wyman reflects on the Rolling Stones and life in Chelsea ... known in his Stones life as “The Quiet One” per Oliver Murray’s excellent 2019 documentary study of the bass guitar ...

Wyman, known in his Stones life as “The Quiet One” per Oliver Murray’s excellent 2019 documentary study of the bass guitar wizard, over the past three decades might be pegged as “The ...

Bill Wyman reunited with the Rolling Stones on their Hackney Diamonds album, ... “I’d seen Gibson and Fender bass guitars in pictures of Little Richard’s and Fats Domino’s bands, ...