Anthony Frederick Levin is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (1981–2021) and Peter Gabriel. He is also a member of Liquid Tension Experiment, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998–2000) and HoBoLeMa (2008–2010). He has led his own band, Stick Men, since 2010.
Levin playing a Chapman Stick with Stick Men in July 2010
Levin in 1993
Stick Men in Misinto, Italy, 2010
Levin performing live with Liquid Tension Experiment at NEARfest 2008
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines, chords, or textures. Designed as a fully polyphonic chordal instrument, it can also cover several of these musical parts simultaneously.
Ten-stringed Chapman Stick
Saltatio Mortis bandmember Bruder Frank
A musician bowing the Stick
The first Stick prototype