Sep 18, 2020 “The Most Important Bassists in Hip Hop” by J. Brox • Weekly Rap Gods
Doug Wimbish is well known for being the bassist in Living Colour, but 80’s Hip Hop fans know Doug as the original bassist for the iconic All Platinum and Sugar Hill Record labels. Doug is the bass behind some of the greatest Hip Hop songs of all time including Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s & Duke Bootee’s “The Message”. Read article here →
Jul 4, 1984 “The Pop Life • Funk Band Members Off in New Directions” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
Duke Bootee (The Message), describes the night he met Wood, Brass & Steel’s Doug Wimbish & Skip McDonald, to a few years later at Joe & Sylvia Robinson’s Sugar Hill Studios in Englewood, NJ with he, Doug, Skip, Jiggs Chase, Keith LeBlanc, Chops Horns and others . Read article here →.
Nov 21, 1982 “Funk Takes a Provocative Turn” by Robert Palmer • The New York Times
Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald & Keith LeBlanc, as New Jersey’s Sugar Hill Record Label house band, may well be described as the “modern funk rhythm section”. Read article here →.