Music Matters With MonkeyBoy & Ziggy Season 2 Episode 14 Nathan East

This week on Music Matters, MonkeyBoy & Ziggy explore the incredible career of Nathan East — the bassist whose fingerprints are on thousands of songs across rock, pop, R&B, and jazz. We break down his early life, his rise through the L.A. session scene, and the legendary tracks he helped shape with artists like Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Daft Punk. We also revisit the night he narrowly avoided the helicopter crash that killed Stevie Ray Vaughan, a moment that changed his life forever. From Fourplay to “Get Lucky,” from “Easy Lover” to “Change the World,” this is the story of the groove that holds modern music together.