Tim Lefebvre

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, Empire of the Sun, The Sleepy Jackson, Wayne Krantz, Patti Austin, John Mayer, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb, Mark Guiliana, Jamie Cullum, Chris Botti and Knower . 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.

Lefebvre's equipment as published on Bass Player:

• Moollon P-Classic (with flatwounds and roundwounds)
• Moollon J-Classic 5-string
• Moollon fretless J-Classic
• CallowHill OBS5, "Lafave" Model, "Asshole" bass
• Fender Precision Bass ’68
• Fender Precision Bass '63
• Fender Jazz Bass (’65 and ’77)
• Serek Midwestern Bass
• 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

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

• Boss OC-2 Octave and RE-20 Space Echo
• Dunlop Way Huge Pork Loin Overdrive, Carbon Copy and Carbon Copy Bright Analog Delay, EchoPlex
• Custom 3Leaf Audio pedalboard with Octabvre octave pedal and You’re Doom fuzz pedal, Wunderlove Envelope Fliter
• Darkglass Microtubes Vintage and Microtubes B7K bass preamp
• Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer
• TC Electronic Röttweiler Distortion
• Line 6 Tap Tremolo
• Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser
• Mantic Vitriol, Density Hulk, Proverb
• Pedaltrain 18
• DOD Meatbox
• Daredevil Fuzz
• Pike Amplification Vulcan XXL

• Blackstar (2016)
• Lazarus Cast Album (2016)

• Let Me Get By (2016)

Live at the Fox Oakland 2017

• Rich Man (2016)

• Two Vines (2016)

• Perpetual Motion (2010)
• Casting For Gravity (2012)
• Fast Future (2015)
• Beyond Now (2016)

• Life (2016)

• Never Group (2016)

• Into The Cosmos (2015)

• Near Life Experience (2016)

• Toto XIV (2015)

• Trying To Figure It Out (2016)

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

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

• Balance (2002)

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

• Bedrock 3 (2002)
• Shelf-Life (2005)
• Plastic Temptation (2009)

• Suspended Animation (2005)

• Weltentraum (2014)

• Domestic Blitz (2011)
• Angelenos (2016)

• Hanging On (2015)

• Blue Eyed Soul (2002)