Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
William George Wyman, known professionally as Bill Wyman, is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer best known as the bassist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing both records and film, and has scored music for film in movies and television...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth24 October 1936
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It would have been the first time the Beatles and Stones collaborated on stage I suppose. We have played together on record in the past.
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This small tour, playing clubs, where the music is best, and where the music was actually written for is not a way to make money.
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If they were doing something special, like maybe a TV special for the year 2000, playing the old songs, then maybe I'll do it.
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I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.
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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
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I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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The Rolling Stones' recorded legacy is unfortunately similar to that of many other rock stars of the 1960s -- a great burst of creativity that tapers off into a stretch (eventually decades long) of unremarkable (and sometimes downright awful) recorded work.
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The Stones used to do that a bit. Sometimes we would pull a song that was ten years old out and put it on the album.
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The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.
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We courted adversity, took risks, and drove mothers crazy.
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Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a solo album or a soundtrack because I knew I could have done them better if I could have focused on them 100% until they were done.