The micro-blogging service Twitter has been getting a huge amount of visibility recently. For those that have missed the storm, it is a web service that lets you publish short messages (of up to 140 characters) to the world… It’s a lot more than that, but the only way to find out is to dive in. […]

Season’s greetings to you and to fellow bassists around the world. I hope that you are managing to get some recuperation in around this time of year. I’m having a little bit of a rest before we launch into the new year. We have a great competition coming up, with some really nice prizes, and […]

Fresh into my inbox this morning was the International Institute of Bassists newsletter (on-line here). I first came across the IIB a few years back, when I was at BassQuake in California, USA. I still have the IIB t-shirt, which is looking a little old and faded now. The IIB itself has aged considerably better!

Probably not the ideal place to list a bass blog, but where is? At least the geek-bassists will find us! :). Actually, here are a few good bass blogs I tripped over recently: http://learnbass.blogspot.com/ – a fellow Ben in Singapore The Guitar Blog. http://buildingtheergonomicguitar.com/ – has some bass stuff The Vintage Bass Guitar Blog is […]

Wow… The Lakland boys have been busy. They have a new owners group (“LOG”), which you can sign up to on the Lakland owners site: Laklandowners.com. Find the “Create an account” option and sign up – it does the whole funky ‘sending you an e-mail’ thing – and you’ll have access to news, a forum […]

On the Lakland Blog there are pointers to some new goodies on the Lakland site: An interview with Genesis bassist Daryl Stuermer. Some cool pix from the Monsters of Bass on Flikr. Nice stuff! Keep it up!