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The SBL Podcast

212- Bass Players to Watch in 2026

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Scott's Bass Lessons, Bass Guitar, Bass, Online Bass Lessons, Education, Music Interviews, Electric Bass, Music, Sbl

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ian and Sharon start 2026 by putting the focus on bass players you should be paying attention to right now. No throwbacks, no nostalgia, just ten modern players who are shaping the sound of today. They each bring five picks and talk about what makes these players stand out and why bass is moving in exciting directions.

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0:00.0

Sharon, 2026 is coming and there are bass players that you need to know about and that I need to know about and that the editorial we need to know about.

0:11.8

There's people making good music out there.

0:13.9

Right?

0:14.8

Yeah.

0:15.4

Yeah.

0:16.4

And I feel like just as soon as, you know, like if you start thinking to yourself, oh, geez, you know, there's nobody making good music. That all happened in the 90s. Or like for you, like, what are you? You're like, oh, that all happened in the odds. What do you, like, what does your generation say? Like, all that happened. I don't know. I say 90s and 80s and 70s. I don't know. Yeah. You know? I definitely won't say teens. I am fully on board by agreeing that the teens were a sad era of music. I think there's some good stuff that happened in the teens. But. Yes. Some. If you start to, if you start to jump on that train of like, oh, only good music happened

0:54.7

back then.

0:55.6

We're here to help you.

0:58.1

We're here to help show you some bass players, show you some music.

1:01.4

And we are focused on bass players today because we are a bass channel.

1:06.0

But there are some people out there absolutely killing it.

1:10.2

And we want to show some love to them. Sharon's got five.

1:14.7

I've got five. I feel like let's kick it off. Sharon, you want to start? Who do you have?

1:18.9

Sure. I'll happily start. Who do I start with? All right.

1:22.7

Who do you want to start with? First one that I have. All right. Let me.

1:31.4

I'm going to start with Rocco Palladino.

1:36.0

That last name might ring some bells in the bass world.

1:38.8

This is, in fact, Pina Palladino's son.

1:41.7

He also has a daughter who is a singer-songwriter.

1:43.0

Not to be forgotten.

1:44.2

But we're here to talk about bass.

1:49.2

So shout out to her, but Rocco Paladino picked up the axe like his dad.

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