Tim Lefebvre
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Tim Lefebvre | |
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 Lefebvre with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Hitomi Kinen Kōdō, Tokyo, 2014 | |
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| Born | February 4, 1968 Foxboro, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Musician |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, double bass |
| Website | www |
Tim Lefebvre (born February 4, 1968)[1] is an American bass guitarist. Both as a session musician and band member, he has worked with a wide range of musicians, including David Bowie, The Black Crowes, Elvis Costello, Sting, Empire of the Sun, The Sleepy Jackson, Wayne Krantz, Patti Austin, John Mayer, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb, Mark Guiliana, Jamie Cullum, Chris Botti, and Knower.[2][3] A member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band until 2018,[4] he also performed on film and television soundtracks, including Ocean's Twelve, The Departed, Analyze That, The Sopranos, and 30 Rock.[3][5]
Called a "musical linguist" by Bass Musician magazine, Lefebvre is proficient in various genres, including rock, jazz, fusion, electronica, and R&B.[3]
Lefebvre played bass on David Bowie's final studio album, Blackstar, which was released two days before Bowie's death in 2016.[4][6][7]
Lefebvre's equipment as published in Bass Player:[1]
- Bass guitars
- Moollon P-Classic (with flatwounds and roundwounds)
- Moollon J-Classic 5-string
- Moollon fretless J-Classic
- CallowHill OBS5, "Lafave" Model, "Asshole" bass
- Fender Precision Bass ('63 and '68)
- Fender Jazz Bass ('65 and '77)
- Serek Midwestern Bass
- Guild/DeArmond Starfire
- Mathias Thoma acoustic bass with Gage Realist pickup and Pirastro Evah Pirazzi strings
- American Standard acoustic bass with Realist and D'Addario Zyex strings
- J5 Tim Lefebvre Signature[8]
- LEH Offset 5[9]
- Rig
- Jad Freer Audio SISMA – Hybrid Tube/Class-G Bass Head _ VENERE series cabinet
- Ampeg SVT-VR head with SVT-810E cabinet
- Ampeg vintage B25-B head
- Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 head with SL 112 cabinet
- Effects
- Jad Freer Audio CAPO, multiple preamp & dual D.I.
- Boss OC-2 Octave and RE-20 Space Echo
- Dunlop Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive, Carbon Copy and Carbon Copy Bright Analog Delay, EchoPlex
- Custom 3 Leaf Audio pedalboard with Octabvre octave pedal and You're Doom fuzz pedal, Wonderlove Envelope Fliter
- Darkglass Microtubes Vintage and Microtubes B7K bass preamp
- Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer
- TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion
- Line 6 Tap Tremolo
- Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser
- Mantic Vitriol, Density Hulk, Proverb
- Pedaltrain 18
- DOD Meatbox
- Daredevil Fuzz
- Pike Amplification Vulcan XXL
