In The Beginning... was Colin Hodgkinson

A few highly deluded people think I invented this solo bass lark. A few others think it was Michael Manring, or Victor Wooten, or even Jaco...

Before all of them (us) was Colin Hodgkinson. THE pioneer. Him and Jet Harris, that's where it all comes from :) 

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Yeah!
He even was in Whitesnake for a little while ;-)
(So how's that for knowing the history ;-)
— Sigurdór Guðmundsson
indeed he was, though that's not exactly the history of solo bass ;) ha!
— Steve Lawson
Hehe. True that ... but history nevertheless ;-) and of course essential to know how such a player functions in a rock group .... perhaps :)
— Sigurdór Guðmundsson
I first heard of Colin w/the Jan Hammer group, MK2. Sang on "Black Sheep", played on "Hammer". Record's meh, but I saw them and CH killed.
— Neil Alexander
Thanks for highlighting the unique playing of Colin - as Alexis Korner put it, Mr Frivolous Fancy Fingers, a name I copied for my 3 CD retrospective of Colin's non-Back Door recordings from 1969 to 2009. We have been building a considerable archive of Colin's work at nukebass.blogspot.com - just search there for Back Door, Colin Hodgkinson and Alexis Korner. On top of that, here are two excellent live recordings not yet included in our archive, one with Jan Hammer (for Neil Alexander) and one in the Electric Blues Duo with Frank Diez. Cheers and enjoy the music, Dave Sez.

http://drfusion.blogspot.com/2009/09/jan-hammer-group-live-at-painters-mill.html
http://crazy-tracks.blogspot.com/2009/06/frank-diez-colin-hodgkinson-manheim-89.html (despite being labelled an audience recording, this is excellent, in my top three Colin recordings).

— Dave Sez
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