Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson (born June 23, 1956) is an American bassist, singer, record producer, music manager, and former A&R executive. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and Executive Producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. Jackson has won a Grammy Award as a producer.

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William "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. William "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. Collins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Eric Adam Avery (born April 25, 1965) is an American musician and bass player for the rock band Jane's Addiction. Avery played in Jane's Addiction initially from 1985 to 1991, and rejoined the band in 2008.

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Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949) is an Israeli American hard rock bassist, vocalist, and actor. He is best known as "The Demon," the blood-spitting, fire-breathing, and tongue-wagging bassist and vocalist in the hard rock band Kiss, an act he co-founded in the early 1970s. Simmons also contends that he has "never been high, drunk, or smoked in [his] life."

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Dougie Lee Poynter (born 30 November 1987 in Corringham, Essex, England) is bass player and vocalist for the British Pop Punk band McFly who along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Tom Fletcher and Harry Judd rose to fame after the release of their first single, "Five Colours In Her Hair", which reached #1 in the charts as did their following debut album Room On The Third Floor,. McFly were signed to Island Records before creating their own Indie label, Super Records in December 2007. Poynter is the band's youngest member having joined the band at the age of 15. He is currently in a long-term relationship with Frankie Sandford (the saturdays).

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