Roy Vogt

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Roy Vogt is a professional electric bass and upright bass player who took up the instrument in Texas at 14, inspired by Jack Bruce, Jack Cassidy, Chris Hillman and Noel Redding. His first mentor, Dallas bassist Ed Garcia, turned him onto the playing of Ray Brown and Stanley Clarke and detoured the young bassist into jazz and fusion. Roy worked in a variety of Rock, Funk and Country bands in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area until he joined the Texas fusion band Aurora.

This led to gigs opening for Larry Coryell and the LA Express and allowed Roy to meet and learn from Stanley Clarke, Miroslav Vitous, and Max Bennett. The music of the Dixie Dregs, Mark Egan with Pat Metheny, and Jaco Pastorius led Roy to the University of Miami Jazz program, where he received the first Masters in Electric Bass Performance awarded in the US in 1980.

In 1980, Roy moved to Nashville, TN where he has worked with the Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts, country guitarist Jerry Reed, and a host of major label Rock, Country, Contemporary Christian, and Pop acts. He was the staff bassist on Channel 4 magazine (WSMV-NBC) from 1983-1987 and has taught at Belmont University since 1983. He is also involved in the new Nashville Bass Institute.

He also transcribed the Bass Extremes book with the duets of Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey. He has also taught many nashville-based bassists such as Justin Smith, Mark Golden, Alan Barnes, Rich Brinsfield, Matthew Haussler, Chris Dunn and many others.

Roy is married and lives in rural Tennessee with his wife Dee Dee, his son, 3 dogs, 2 cats and a motley assortment of basses.

[edit] Discography

• Stan Lassiter Group -"Psychic Sweat" (Castle CA 4870)
• Bass Talk 6:Deep Impact Ahead -"Victor-ious" (with Victor Wooten on Hotwire Records EFA 12843-2)
• Andy Gerome - "Miles of Horizon" (Town Hall Music HTM 998)
• Aurora - (Shroom SP 99007)
• Tachoir -"Vision" (Avita Records CD-1006)
• The Group Tachoir - "Beyond Stereotype" (Avita CD-1008)
• Angela Kaset - "Sanctuary" (Winter Harvest WH3307-2)
• Jonelle Mosser - "Around Townes" (Winter Harvest WH3308-2)
• Mickey Newbury - Lulled by Moonlight

[edit] Videography

• Roy Vogt - Electric Bass Master Study Series
• Getting the Most Out of 5 String Bass (Superchops 4 Bass VRV-35)
• Getting the Most Out of 6 String Bass (Superchops 4 Bass VRV-36)
• The Day the Bass Players Took Over the World (With Dave Pomeroy and the All-Bass Orchestra on Earwave EAW-106)

[edit] External link

• http://www.royvogt.com