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In June 2005 Bill released his debut CD..  Undergroundalienbass.. which collects recordings he’s made with several acts since the early ’90s. Many of the tracks are improvised, frenetic, and with a unique sense of high-energy mania, and all are underpinned by his expressive, often agitated, and technically curious bass lines. Bill had to reinvent his whole style whose playing is in part characterized by the insistent, pulsating bass riffs you might expect from a highly refined left-hand tapping technique, and yet goes places technically and musically that would be daring for most bassists. On the disc’s first two tracks, a pair of atonal, improvised instrumentals recorded with the drummer Jim Nelson and guitarist Ron K., Bill’s aggressive left-hand riffage beats out snarly-toned chugs beneath crisp, energetic drumming and Primus-like guitars. Bill’s composition “Photo 51,” adds horns to the art-rock mélange, with Bill at times anticipating and reflecting their tuneful mid-tempo motifs, then playing in and around them with contrasting 16th-note fretless runs that recall Jaco Pastorius’s Rocco Prestia influence. “Every now and then I’ll smack it with the hook,” says Bill, who also uses the metallic apparatus on occasion as a bow or to stimulate the pickups on his Warmoth Jazz Bass.. ..for more on this story go to The Music Group of greater Kalamazoo 

Bill has been proudly supported by many including Muzz.. JauqoIII-X.. Brian Bromberg.. Victor Wooten.. www.lowdownsound...  Eden.. www.rocketboom.com & the online bass community...  for more on this story go to warmouth.com