Institution. Donald Kachamba and Moya Aliya, one-string box players with the influential Malawi group Kachamba Brothers Band. Can be heard on "Donald Kachamba's Kwela Band", and "Malawi / Concert Kwela". Brian Ritchie, of the band The Violent Femmes, plays a 'tubless electric washtub bass'. Les Claypool, of Primus, often plays a variation called a whamola, as can be heard on the opening theme of the tenth season of South Park. Bill Smith, Len Garry, Ivan Vaughan, and Nigel Walley, tea-chest bass players of The Quarrymen. John Sanford, a.k.a. Redd Foxx, got his start in show business as washtub bass player for the "Bon Bons". In the Sanford and Son episode "Sanford and Gong" (aired December 17, 1976), Sanford and Don "Bubba" Bexley audition for The Gong Show with Bubba on washtub bass. Bob Weir and Mike Garbett played washtub bass on the eponymous album Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions - a forerunner band to the Grateful Dead. Stu Cook, the bassist of Creedence Clearwater Revival, played washtub bass on the track "Poorboy Shuffle" from the album Willy and the Poor Boys. He faked playing the instrument to a recording of "Down on the Corner" on the ABC-TV variety show Music Scene, December 1, 1969. Lionel Kilberg (1930–2008), promoter and player of the 'Brownie Bass' with 'The Shanty Boys' during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s in New York, and producer/lyricist/player of the 1973 album We Walked by the Water featuring Kate Wolf. That 1 Guy plays a variation of the washtub bass called the 'Magic Pipe' and a few other self-built instruments. Geoff Bell plays the washtub bass for folk punk group Days N' Daze. References External links Inbindis Around the World How to Build and Play the Washtub Bass Makers of bucket bass in London Bass monochords Continuous pitch instruments Contrabass instruments Bass (sound) Skiffle Improvised musical instruments