After watching the (US) elections last night, today was a little sleep deprived, but I was in the mood for getting things done. A big clear out of the office and the studio. And then, do you know what?

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 […]

We have our very own competition coming up on the Bass Guitar Blog, but first I wanted to set a challenge – especially for the solo bassists out there. Myguitarspace.com are having a competition (thanks for Kristen for contacting me about it). After a little bit of dialogue, I can confirm that the competition is open to bassists. […]

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’ve been thinking about listening today. Partly because I’ve been turning the studio upside down trying to find my trusty Shure E3 in-ear monitors. They are missing in action. Not good. They were a very special part of my bass kit. There is little that beats the feeling of your insides being liquidized by […]