How The Fender Bass changed the world (Jim Roberts

This richly illustrated history reveals the true colors of the Fender electric bass as a powerful agent of change in popular music and popular culture. It tells the story of technological and artistic evolution of basses and players, and of their profound influence on the world around them. Celebrating the instrument's 50th anniversary, How The Fender Bass Changed The World salutes the revolutionary impact of the bass in the hands of James Jamerson, Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, Carol Kaye, John Entwistle, Jaco Pastorius, Sting and other bass visionaries and virtuosos past and present