Archive for March, 2009
New F-Light Bass from Rees
Cambridge, England-based Rees Electric Guitars is releasing a new, lightweight bass guitar. The Rees F-Light bass is a 4-string, 34-inch scale bass guitar, weighing in at just 6 pounds.
The bass uses Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound P-Bass pickups and comes in a variety of wood colors and fretboard wood options.
Rees is promoting this as [...]
Billy Sheehan joins Rotosound for Musikmesse
Rotosound has just announced Billy Sheehan is making a guest appearance at their booth next month at the musical instrument trade fair, Musikmesse, in Frankfurt, Germany.
Billy will meet fans and sign posters for three days, from April 2nd through the 4th.
Billy is also promoting his new album, Holy Cow, releasing on April 14th.
Mike Stern’s New Morning: The Paris Concert [new release]
A new DVD featuring the Mike Stern Band’s May 2008 performance at the New Morning club in Paris, France was released this week. Bassist Tom Kennedy performs along with Stern, drummer Dave Weckl, and tenor saxophonist Bob Franceschini.
New Morning: The Paris Concert is filmed in high definition, contains 112 minutes of footage including the [...]
Bass solo techniques [lesson]
JJ Vel aka “bassist718″ breaks down soloing on the bass (and even disrupts his daughter’s TV time) in today’s featured video lesson.
Prince’s “Dreamer” on Leno
Today’s featured video is Prince’s “Dreamer” from his Lotusflow3r CD, performed at the Tonight Show. We love the bass by Sonny Thompson.
Golden Gate Bass Camp
The Golden Gate Bass Camp is celebrating its 14th year of bass camps in California this July, with 8 days of instruction and concerts at the Valley Center for the Performing Arts, Holy Names University in Oakland California.
The Bass Camp, held from July 5 through 12th, features David Murray, Robert Hurst, Kristin Korb, Michael Manring, [...]
Marcus Miller: Teen Town [featured video]
Today’s featured video clip features Marcus Miller playing Jaco Pastorius’s Teen Town
Enjoy:
Peavey now shipping VB-3 bass amp
Peavey first announced the VB-3 all-tube bass amp back in in January, at Winter NAMM ‘09, for delivery in Q1, 2009. The amp is now shipping.
The VB-810 cabinet, designed to match the VB-3, will be available in the next three months, according to the company.
The VB-3 is a dual-channel amp, combining three 12AX7 and [...]
Jacofest: Dennard’s tribute Jaco Pastorius
On March 13, drummer Kenwood Dennard held a tribute for his former band mate, Jaco Pastorius at the Regattabar in Boston, Massachusetts. The event featured twelve musicians playing from Jaco’s vast library of tunes.
Dennard, who served as emcee, opened the performance by announcing, “I want to introduce you to Jaco’s spontaneous attitude,” and jumped [...]
TC Electronic announces RS410 bass cabinet
TC Electronic new RS410 bass cabinet is the latest addition to their line of cabinets, adding to the existing RH450 bass amp and RS lines of cabinets.
The RS410 features four 10″ drivers plus a high-frequency driver, custom made by Eminence. The RS410 is an 8 Ohms and 600 W cabinet.
Here’s a clip of bassist [...]
