Gregory Bruce Campbell
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Gregory Bruce Campbell is an electric bassist who usually performs using Extended-range basses, (or "ERBs"), which are electric bass guitars with more range (usually meaning more strings, but sometimes additional frets are added for more range) than the "standard" 4-string bass guitar. The techniques used to play the extended-range bass are closely related to those used for basses, including finger plucking, slapping, popping, and tapping, though a plectrum is very rarely used. The upper strings of an extended-range bass allow bassists to adopt playing styles of the electric guitar. One such style is the practice of "comping", or playing a rhythmic chordal accompaniment to an improvised solo.
[edit] Career
He performs with groups 9 & Zen, Kickstart Chubby, and the Valley Christian Fellowship worship team. He teaches bass in Montana. He has artist endorsement relationships with a number of bass equipment companies. He performs using looping technologies, which allow a performer to record a "riff" or musical phrase, and then perform over this recorded loop.[1]
Campbell cites "Buckethead, Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins, Billy Dickens, Flea, Stu Hamm, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Hunter, Michael Manring, Jaco Pastorius, Dave Pomeroy, PRIMUS, PRODIGY, Billy Sheehan, Robert Trujillo, [and] Victor Wooten" as musical influences.[2]
He performs with an E-bow, a looper device (the KORG ES-1 Electribe S Rhythm Production Sampler), and a variety of effects, including a “TALKER” pedal, an octave-producing pedal, Bass Wah pedals, and combination distortion/wah/volume pedals.
Campbell is part of the extended range bass community of bassists who play instruments with seven or more strings. He hosts a free online forum group called Extended Range Bassist. It [1]. The web site for the Extended Range Bassist community is http://www.extendedrangebassist.com.
