Ivan "Funkboy" Bodley

Electric and Acoustic Bass

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Ivan & the Vandellas - Ms. Martha Reeves and the original Vandellas, Ms. Annette Sterling and Ms. Rosalind Holmes about to go onstage with me playing and conducting in Maryland, July 2005.

Former Living Colour frontman, Corey Glover, and me the day he came to Loho Studios in Manhattan to cut a track on my Jazz/Funk Unit CD (available at  CDBaby.com)
I was also in Corey's band at the time.

With Muzz Skillings at the legendary Pyramid Club, NYC. Formerly the bass player for Living Colour, Muzz switched to guitar for his own band, Medicine Stick. Let me tell you, it ain't easy being a bass player's bass player!

(left to right: Bob Funk and Crispin Cioe of the Uptown Horns, Percy Sledge, Horns guitarist Jon Paris, and me) With Percy Sledge and The Uptown Horns after playing to about 10,000 people outdoors at Lincoln Centre in NYC. Clearly we now know what it means "When a Man Loves a Woman."

Spencer Davis and me just after rocking through "Gimme Some Lovin'" at Hershey Park, PA

Peter Noone and me amid autograph seekers (his, not mine!) after performing "Henry VIII" and the rest of his Herman's Hermits hits at Hershey Park, PA.

British alt-pop-reggae sensation Finley Quaye and me backstage at Tramps, NYC. This was his first trip to the USA. We did shows in LA, NYC, and recorded a B-side for one of his UK singles. And all because his regular bass player couldn't get a visa in time. I got the call on Thursday, got the CD on Friday, was on the plane to LA on Saturday, was in rehearsal on Sunday, and did the gig on Monday. They call me Mr. Fix It….


Pg 1 - Uptown Horns, Stanley Clarke, Sam Moore, Peter Wolf, Vernon Reid & Peter Wolf, Bono

Pg 2 - Bass Legends, Ben E. King, Bootsy Collins, Gloria Gaynor, Shirley Alston Reeves, Solomon Burke, Buster Poindexter

Pg 3- Eddie Floyd, Jay Siegel (Tokens), Bowzer, Dolemite, Howard Tate, The Crystals.

Pg 4 - Ann Peebles, Chi-Lites, Carla Thomas, Mark Bowers, PNC Arts Center, Bob Babbitt, Steve Cropper

Pg 5 - Lou Christie, Johnny Farina, Eric Bazilian, Don Dixon and Marti Jones, Earl King and Timothea, Bonnie Raitt

Pg 6 - Martha Reeves, Corey Glover, Muzz Skillings, Percy Sledge, Spencer Davis, Peter Noone, Finley Quay

Pg 7 - Dick Clark, Mary Wilson, Rufus Thomas, Frankie Ford, Randy Jackson, Istanbul Symphony and Chorus, Rock Concerto Israel Symphony, Rock Concerto Poster

Pg 8 - Richard Street (Temptations), Kevin Bacon, Rick Derringer, Gary U.S. Bonds, Travis Tritt and Sam Moore, The Chiffons, Charlie Thomas (The Drifters), Lester Chambers (Chambers Bros.)

Pg 9 - Eye to Eye, Bernard Purdie, Chuck Rainey, Al Kooper, Eddie Holman, Terry Sylvester and John Ford Coley.

Ivan uses Warrior basses, Hartke amplification, Dean Markley strings, and Line 6 signal processors. Ivan eats only Little Debbie snack cakes.





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