REMEMBERING RICK TURNER

News and views from the bass world, collated by BP's team of newshounds

he luthier Rick Turner passed away at the age of 78 on April 17, with his legacy a permanent catalog of innovations that have profoundly, from his friend and solo bassist Steve Lawson, like Turner a long-time columnist. As Lawson wrote at the time of Turner’s death: “I’ve been trying to piece together the timeline of my friendship with Rick Turner. I’d read his column in for years, but we first connected, as did so many other bass players, via The Bottom Line—the legendary email discussion list for bassists from the Nineties. Rick started posting in early 1998, answering questions and in his usual prescient way pointing out in a discussion about the gender and racial imbalance in bass magazines, that if you don’t like the way someone else is doing things, do it yourself and post it online.”