Gregory Bruce Campbell

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.

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.

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.

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.