{"name":"Mr. Big","title":"Mr. Big","id":757,"slug":"mr-big","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/757/?format=json","bio_short":"Mr. Big combined two popular musical trends of the rock scene in the 1980s: a particular brand of hard rock, focused on melodies and listener-friendly choruses, and impressive technical proficiency, then called shredding. The seeds for the group were sown when bass player <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Sheehan\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Billy Sheehan</a> (considered one of the top bassists of rock, often thought to be the bass equivalent of guitarist Eddie Van Halen) left David Lee Roth's solo band in 1988.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/MrBig.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":9688,"title":"Seven Impossible Days","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/seven-impossible-days/"},{"id":9690,"title":"Superfantastic","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/superfantastic/"},{"id":9689,"title":"The Chain","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/the-chain/"},{"id":1240,"title":"To Be With You","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/to-be-with-you/"}]}