18 Jul 2023

Music feature: Mike Chunn's favourite bass players

From Afternoons, 2:30 pm on 18 July 2023

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For this week's music feature we're looking at some of the best bass players in the world.

Bassist Mike Chunn was a founding member of Split Enz and played with group alongside his brother Geoff from their inception through to 1976.

He's authored several books including the biography 'Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz'.

Mike also spent 11 years as the director of APRA's New Zealand arm and founded the Play it Strange trust to nurture up and coming musicians.

Mike's here today to highlight the bass players that influenced him and tell us about his own journey on the instrument.

Mike Chunn

Mike Chunn Photo: supplied/Josef Scott

 

 

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