Tonight’s mystery artist is a bass player with a band that recently played Bangor who has a notably strange was of stringing a bass for a very good reason. Think you know who the band is or their bass player??

This particular band visited the Darlings Waterfront Pavillion in June of this year acompanied by the Doobie Brothers. Our bass player is none other than Ross Valory. Ross and Neal Schon are the only two original members of the classic rock group Journey.
And if you look Ross up on Wikipedia you’ll see why he strings his bass in a way unique to him. It says:

One of the innovations that Valory uses (it is not known if he is the inventor) is to string a four-string bass with the bottom four strings of a 5-string set. Thus, instead of the usual E-A-D-G arrangement, his bass is strung as B-E-A-D. This adds the five string depth to the songs, while allowing the quick fingering of a four-string neck. He also plays keyboards and guitar.
Valory Has played on all but one of Journey’s albums and has also played for The Vu, The Storm, Frumious Bandersnatch and The Steve Miller Band.

Not bad for an old fella. Here is tonight's featured song with an extended guitar into from Neal. Enjoy.

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