Will Lee spent more than 3 decades holding down the bass chair on the Late Show with David Letterman, played with all 4 Beatles, and has a story about Paul McCartney trying to buy his bass that alone is worth the price of admission. In this wide-ranging conversation with Rob Cass on dopeYEAH talk, Lee covers everything from switching from drums to bass as what he initially called his biggest mistake, to the massive influence of Jaco Pastorius, working on Donald Fagen’s ‘The Nightfly’, how John Lennon’s discomfort with his own voice inadvertently led to the invention of flanging, and the James Brown Late Show appearance nobody saw coming. Honest, funny, and deeply human, it’s a remarkable portrait of one of the most connected and undersung figures in modern music history.