Career
He is credited with being the first electric bass player in Los Angeles studios in the 1950. Pohlman was the band leader and arranger of the house band, "The Shindogs" in the 1960s Television show Shindig. Fellow session bassist Carol Kaye wrote of him, “Ray Pohlman in the early 80s became the rhythm guitarist for Frankie Capp’s great jazz band, Juggernaut.”.