FRED THOMAS SHINES @ SHRINE!

Scores of low-enders have bounced in and out of Brown’s band, but Fred Thomas has held the bass chair in the world’s premier funk & soul outfit for the better part of 33 years. He anchored the fort on such hits as “Hot Pants, Pt. 1,” “Make It Funky, Pt. 1,” and “Papa Don’t Take No Mess.”  The sheer number of hip-hop tracks that use those lines prompted Brown to refer to Thomas as  the “mostsampled bass player in the world.”  Bass Player Magazine