Tweet Um… “Woot” as I believe we say in web circles. The near-legendary best-of-the-web service Alltop has a shiny new guitar page, and… The Bass Guitar Blog is on it! Check it out. It’s a very clever little page, you can hide feeds you don’t want to read, and the most read sites bubble to the top. [...]

Tweet   This fellow looks rather nice. The Spellbinder Bass II marks the return of the model from the synonymous Spellbinder corp (I’ve been desperate to use that word for weeks). The model has had a long break, it is almost three decades since the first batch of Spellbinders were built in the early 80′s. [...]

Tweet Ooo… Looks interesting: Bass Gear Magazine. It is free on-line – after your register, a link and password gets sent to your inbox. You can read it in your trusty old web browser. It’s worth getting a big monitor for . There is a paid-for print version available for people who need to do the [...]

Tweet image courtesy of Marissa Cap. A bass guitar on the BBC news site? Oh yes, right here: Why don’t girls play guitar? Interesting that it is either a lefty bass (yeah!) or they have mirrored the picture (looks like the later, from the headstock – doh! Slaps forehead). Anyway, that niggle aside. The article [...]

Tweet I missed this one first time round, but at the recent Live Earth event there was a wild bass that was specially made by US bass makers Lakland for the Spinal Tap bassist. Check out the Burning Earth Bass on the BBC site! Kudos to Dan and the team. It really is something special, [...]

Tweet This month saw the tenth anniversary of Jens Ritter’s bass company. He released a limited edition of 10 basses: They are all sold, already! It sounds like there have been some hassles for Ritter in recent months: false rumors and fake Ritter’s being sold on eBay. That is a great shame, as Ritter turn [...]