Great interview with information you might not have known.
"As a pre teen in the early 80’s, I stayed glued to the component set listening to someone playing incredible bass on joints like Freedom by The Furious 5 and Grandmaster Flash, 8th Wonder by The Sugar Hill Gang, Monster Jam By Spoonie Gee with Sequence and especially Flash To The Beat by Grandmaster Flash. It’s an honor to speak to that “someone” some 25 years later. This is the story of the journeyman bassist Doug Wimbish……"
http://www.jayquan.com/dwimbish.htm