This made me smile on a cold, wet British morning. It looks like Mark is playing the original Status Graphite King Bass in this video (complete with rather nifty the bendwell that Rob Green put into the design). Check out this video on Killer Chops TV:

It’s been a little while since we’ve had a video on the blog, and I’ve not posted a Bass Duo before, so Steve Lawson sorting through his video collection and posting this live improv with Michael Manring turns out to be very timely! Enjoy!

I’m getting ready to do a few posts on living with bass guitar strings – probably just as well, since I realised that one of my basses has had the same set of strings on for 3 years! I will explain that one. Anyway, before you can really get to down serious string work, you […]

I’ve posted about the Lakland Owners Group, now it is about time for me to write about an actual Lakland Bass. This fellow here is the Lakland Skyline 55-02. The 55 denotes that it is a 5 string, and the 02 that it has a jazz front pick up and a musicman style one at the […]

I’m talking about the bit of the bass that keeps the strings on, not that funny bit of the song between the verse and the chorus. What we have here today, my fellow bass lovers, is a tale of three bridges. It wasn’t until I saw a Badass bridge on a bass for the first time […]

Rather sad news in my inbox, re: BassQuake08, which is now cancelled. The organizers cited the current economic climate. Anyone where has pre-registered will receive a full refund. Enjoy this clip of Pasadena Bass Day 08 to sooth your blues: http://www.xotic.us/video/pasadenaBassDay08/index.html A 2009 event is still planned, and there will be the Namm Bass Bash 09 and Pasadena Bass […]