This was meant to be up in time for International Women’s Day, but studio arrangements have kept me away from the blog. This is an amazing hour long interview with bass legend Carol Kaye, from The Snapshots Foundation, which makes for compelling watching. If you aren’t familiar with Carol, you WILL have heard her play. […]

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!

Very difficult to be a bassist and not have an opinion on the late Jaco Pastorius. I recently stumbled across a classic interview from 1978 on the website dedicated to Jaco: “a portrait“. A few choice quotes: Jaco: “I did all my learning in the clubs. Playing eight sets a night. It was real killer […]