Doug Wimbish plays music from his discography including mega-hits from the Wood, Brass & Steel to Sugar Hill Records years. During a solo set at WimBash Hartford 2022 at Black Eyed Sally's on Nov 5, 2022, Doug takes the audience on a musical history lesson performing the legendary songs "Funkanova" [Wood, Brass & Steel], "That's The Joint" [Funky 4 + 1], "8th Wonder [Sugarhill Gang], "White Lines" [Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five], "Apache (Jump On It) [Sugarhill Gang], "Freedom' [Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five], "The Message" [Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five] and "Funk You Up" [The Sequence].
Doug plays his '72 Fender Jazz Bass during the set, which was the ORIGINAL bass he used on all of the Joe & Sylvia Robinson's All Platinum/ Sugarhill Records recordings he played on.
The Sugarhill Records Original Rhythm Section was Doug Wimbish (bass), Skip McDonald (guitar) and Keith Leblanc (drums).
This Rhythm Section is the backbone behind the Sugarhill Records catalog.
Other key players on the All Platinum/ Sugarhill Records catalog include Craig Derry (vocals & percussion), Ed Fletcher aka Duke Bootee (percussion & vocals), Dwain Mitchell (keyboards & vocals), Reggie Griffin (keyboards, guitar, horns, vocals), Gary Henry (keyboards, vocals), Otha Stokes (sax), Randy Bost (trumpet), Hubert Powell (keyboards, vocals), Harold Sargent (drums), Barton Campbell (guitar), Cecil Powell (drums), Keith Cloud (keyboards), Chops Horns (Darryl Dixon, David Watson, Marvin Daniels, Melvin "Boonie" El), Winston "Flip" Dixon, Cindy Mizelle (vocals), John "Jiggs" Chase (arranger) & Phil Evans (trombone).
The Sugarhill Records Band built the House of Hip Hop, playing on countless hits that are sampled to this day.