Gregory Bruce Campbell
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Gregory Bruce Campbell is a 9-string electric bassist. 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 Pastorious, 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.
