Archive for May 2024 - Page 3

This is a serious bass lesson. We’re digging into triads… different positions, using our pinky, major and minor shapes, the whole shebang!

Davie504 is taking us down memory lane with this new video. Covering 17 years, Davie focuses on “three OG bass players on YouTube,” including Viaceslav Svedov, Miki Santamaria, and David Caraccio (aka Davidsinsrock).

Fuzzrocious Pedals has introduced the Big Fella, which expands on their Li'l Fella overdrive/distortion/fuzz box. The new pedal, housed in a 1590BB enclosure, packs an overdrive, distortion, gated fuzz, and feedback into one unit.

Aguilar has updated its product lineup with a new generation of the Tone Hammer and AG series amplifiers. The revisions include the introduction of the Aguilar Cabinet Suite, dual XLR outputs, expanded connectivity, and power section upgrades.

The Steve Gadd Band band took the stage at Blue Note Tokyo earlier this year, and thankfully, cameras were rolling. Here they are performing “Party Guy.”

Back in March, longtime Styx bassist Ricky Phillips announced his departure. It was just before a tour, and the group had Terry Gowan sit in, and now they’ve made him an official member.

Meeting other bassists is one of my favorite things about being on the road. Sometimes, I’m even lucky enough to try out their basses, which is exactly what happened after a show when I got my hands on the MBJ Guitars “Chewy” Bass.

North Sea Jazz Archive just dropped a full concert video from their archives, with D’Angelo and The Vanguard’s full performance in 2015.

Another jazz bass giant has left us with the passing of Palle Danielsson. He is perhaps best known for his stint as a member of Keith Jarrett’s “European Quartet.”

At NAMM this year, we got a sneak peek of Doug Wimbish’s signature basses from the Spector USA Custom Shop. Now, the DW-4 and DW-5 have been officially launched.

The Main Squeeze dropped another cover video, and this one is impressive. The band took The Beatles’ “She Loves You” and made it their own.

This week's reader-favorite list is a gear-heavy one. But it also includes some other bass goodness.