Video & Interview courtesy of Jon Liebman and ForBassPlayersOnly.com March 17, 2014 Bill Dickens has played bass with a wide variety of artists, including Pat Metheny, George Michael, Joe Zawinul, Janet Jackson, Grover Washington, Jr., Chaka Khan, Mary J. Blige, Freddie Hubbard, Al DiMeola, Dennis Chambers, Steve Morse, Randy Newman and many others. He also […]
Courtesy of New Orleans, LA Local News By Wesley Hodges on February 08, 2012 at 10:00 AM, updated February 08, 2012 at 11:09 AM “As long as we stay positive and stick together, we’ll probably be doing some more shows. I don’t think The Meters will ever stop playing together. The response to that show […]
Exclusive Interview wqith Bass Player Magazine @ 2012 NAMM
Exclusive Interview with FBPO’s Jon Liebman November 22, 2010 – Courtesy of forbassplayersonly.com Bill Dickens has played bass with a wide variety of artists, including Pat Metheny, George Michael, Joe Zawinul, Janet Jackson, Grover Washington, Jr., Chaka Khan, Mary J. Blige, Freddie Hubbard, Al DiMeola, Dennis Chambers, Steve Morse, Randy Newman and many others. He […]
Bill Dickens Interview By: Vuyani Wakaba For The South African Bass Collective Among the perks of living in the Chicago suburbs are the opportunities to sometimes meet up with some amazing bass players. Some of these gifted players come through town on tour, others come to Chicago to conduct bass clinics, others happen to live […]
Bill “The Buddha” Dickens Have Monster Talent, Monster Gear, Will Travel If you have ever opened a magazine on bass, you have seen him. Seated amongst a sea of some of the strangest and most exotic (and huge!!!) basses you have ever seen, looking ever so relaxed, this bass monster does look a little like […]
Interview & article By Dave Schwartz & courtesy of www.dabelly.com Photos By Daniel Quinajon and Keith Durflinger On the final day of NAMM, 2002, I was roaming the Anaheim Convention center mentally celebrating another great show. We were fortunate enough to have interviewed several of the stars we had targeted and had a good opportunity […]
Bill (the Buddha) Dickens became a performer/inventor when the speed of his funky bass lines allowed him to do more than the traditional four string electric bass would allow. Working with Cort Guitars, the Bill “The Buddha” Dickens model was designed by Bill and the Cort engineers to get the most out of his talents. As the product […]
An indepth interview by Victor Wooten. Story courtesy of Bass Player Magazine from May 1996 back issue. It all started about ten years ago. I was living at my parents’ house in Virginia when a good friend of mine, Keith Horne, came by with a videotape of pianist Ramsey Lewis’s band on the Arsenio Hall […]
