Tim Lefebvre

Tim Lefebvre
250px Lefebvre performing with Tedeschi Trucks Band at Hitomi Kinen Kōdō in Tokyo in 2014
Background information
Also known as	Tim Lafave Skip Herbertson Johnny Fever
Born	(1968-02-04) February 4, 1968 Foxboro, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Jazz rock jazz fusion funk electronic R&B
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Bass guitar double bass
Website	timlafave.com
Notable instruments
Fender Precision Bass

Tim Lefebvre (born February 4, 1968) is an American bass guitarist. Both as a session musician and a live band member, he has worked with a wide range of musicians, including David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sting, Wayne Krantz, Patti Austin, John Mayer, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb, Mark Guiliana, Jamie Cullum, and Chris Botti. Also being a member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, he also performed on various film and television scores, including Ocean's Twelve, The Departed, Analyze That, The Sopranos and 30 Rock.

Being described as a "musical linguist" by the Bass Musician magazine, Lefebvre is proficient in various music genres, including rock, jazz, fusion, electronica and R&B.

Lefebvre played bass on Bowie's final studio album, Blackstar, released two days before Bowie's death in 2016.

Equipment

Lefebvre's equipment as published on Bass Player:

Bass guitars

• Moollon P-Classic (with flatwounds and roundwounds)
• Moollon J-Classic 5-string
• Moollon fretless J-Classic
• CallowHill OBS5
• Fender Precision Bass ’68
• Fender Jazz Bass (’65 and ’77)
• Gibson EB-2
• 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

Rig

• Ampeg SVT-VR head with SVT-810E cabinet
• Ampeg vintage B25-B head
• Aguilar Tone Hammer 500 head with SL 112 cabinet

Effects

• Boss OC-2 Octave and RE-20 Space Echo
• Dunlop Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive and Carbon Copy Analog Delay
• Custom 3Leaf Audio pedalboard with Octabvre octave pedal and You’re Doom fuzz pedal
• Darkglass Electronics Microtubes Vintage and Microtubes B7K bass preamp
• Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer
• TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion
• Line 6 Tap Tremolo
• Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser

Discography

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With David Bowie

• Blackstar (2016)

With Toto

• Toto XIV (2015)

With Mark Guiliana

• A Form of Truth (2013)
• Beat Music: The Los Angeles Improvisations (2014)

With Wayne Krantz

• Greenwich Mean (1999)
• Your Basic Live (2003)
• Your Basic Live '06 (2007)
• Krantz Carlock Lefebvre (2009)
• Good Piranha / Bad Piranha (2014)

With David Binney

• Balance (2002)

With Donny McCaslin

• Perpetual Motion (2010)
• Casting For Gravity (2012)
• Fast Future (2015)

With Chuck Loeb

• The Music Inside (1996)
• The Moon, the Stars and the Setting Sun (1998)
• In a Heartbeat (2001)
• The Love Song Collection (2007)

With Uri Caine

• Bedrock_3 (2002)
• Shelf-Life (2005)
• Plastic Temptation (2009)

With John Petrucci

• Suspended Animation (2005)

With Michael Wollny Trio

• Weltentraum (2014)

With Tedeschi Trucks Band

• Let Me Get By (2016)

With Knower

• Hanging On (2015)

With Till Brönner

• "Blue eyed soul" (2010)

External links

• Official website