I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

In 2013 Levin played on five songs of David Bowie's comeback album The Next Day including the first single "Where Are We Now?" released on January 8 2013. 0 (2009) - L'Image
Soup (2010) - Stick Men
Absalom (2011) - Stick Men (EP)
Levin Torn White (2011) - Tony Levin David Torn Alan White
Open (2012) - Stick Men
Deep - Stick Men (forthcoming autumn 2012). He traded in his Ampeg electric upright "Baby Bass" for a Fender Precision Bass; his first bass amplifier on early days was an Ampeg Portaflex B-15.

Anthony Frederick "Tony" Levin (born June 6 1946 Boston Massachusetts) is an American progressive rock musician specializing in bass guitar Chapman Stick and upright bass. Additionally he has toured with artists including Paul Simon (with whom Levin appeared in Simon's 1980 film One Trick Pony) Gary Burton James Taylor Herbie Mann Judy Collins Carly Simon Peter Frampton Tim Finn Richie Sambora and Claudio Baglioni. Levin is also one of the firstbloggers as he began sharing his tour experiences in a diary fashion as early as in 1996 one year before the terms "weblog" and "blog" were coined.