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? [More…]

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! [More…]

Last weekend was Bass Player Live in LA, thanks to Carol for the heads up – sorry it was the other Carol that got the Lifetime Achievement award, there’s still next year ;). Check out Bass Player TV, some of the sessions will make their way there.

Don’t forget that the UK has Bass Day 2008 in Manchester this weekend.

I’m very pleased to announce that during the month of November we are running ran a competition, with a prize from the great folks at Upton Bass. You have the chance to win one of their patented Revolution SOLO II Double Bass Pickups. This is what some of the users of the Revolution SOLO II Pickup have to say about it on their site: [More…]

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.

Check back tomorrow for something rather special for anyone with a double bass…

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 need some tools: [More…]