We like to speak with the greats here at MusicRadar, which is why we sat down with bass great Leland Sklar, the LA session king who sports a seriously impressive beard and an even more eye-popping resume. Over the course of 40 years, he's performed on over 2,000 albums (including hundreds of film and TV projects) and probably fit in three or four more gigs in the time it took you to read this sentence.

The names on Sklar's CV are a veritable who's who in music, so we decided to ask him about 10 of the more legendary artists he's played with, many of whom he's forged decades-long associations with.

"That's the great thing about doing what I do," Sklar says. "You play on sessions, but they're really not jobs. You're hanging with your friends. And these really are some special people."