“Bass.” When Beyoncé uttered that simple word at the start of her hot hit from the summer of 2006, low-enders everywhere cocked their ears. Sure enough, what followed were the pulsating plucks of Jon Jon Webb on Deja Vu.
For Webb, “bass” has been in his blood since he was 10, when his godmother bought him a four-string. The 42-year-old St. Louis native originally started on drums at age three, and he continued as a stickman on church and gospel gigs while shedding bass guitar at home to the sounds of Jaco, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, and local idol Tom Kennedy.
