Dave Pomeroy

If youve ever listened to country radio, you will know Dave Pomeroys work with Trisha Yearwood, Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss, Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, and many others. He is familiar to BP readers from his "Off The Deep End" column, which ran from July 97 to May 01. He is also a progenitor of all-bass music. His solo record Tomorrow Never Knows [Earwave] features 33 basses culled from his extensive collection. www.davepomeroy.com

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The Most Recent stories by Dave Pomeroy

• Retro Rama: 1964 Höfner 500/2 “Club Bass” May 2008

  In 1956, Walter Höfner (whose father, Karl, founded Höfner in 1887) developed a violin-shaped, semi-acoustic electric bass guitar. The result was the Höfner 500/1, which rocketed to world renown in the ’60s due to its use by a certain ...

• Retro Rama: 1968 Baldwin/Burns 704 April 2008

  The Baldwin/Burns 704 is yet another variation of the hollowbody “guitar as bass” formula we’ve seen before with the Fender Coronado [July ’07] and Hagstrom Concorde Deluxe [May ’06]. With a bright red finish that ...

• Retro-Rama: 1968 Hagstrom H8 8-string March 2008

  The Hagstrom H8 8-string was a “concept” bass that was born not from necessity, but from a spirit of innovation that characterized the Hagstrom line in its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s. Made in Sweden, the H8 was the first production ...

• Retro-Rama: A 1983 G&L L-2000 March 2008

  After Leo Fender left Music Man in late 1979, it didn’t take long before he was back in action—this time with old friends George Fullerton and Dale Hyatt, and a new company, G&L. Having essentially invented the modern electric ...

• Retro-Rama: 1974 Gibson Grabber January 2008

  The introduction of the Gibson Grabber in 1973 represented a major shift in thinking for Gibson’s bass division. The short-scale, set-neck “bass as modified guitar” concept of the EB series had fallen so far behind Fender basses in ...

• Retro-Rama: 1980 Music Man Cutlass I December 2007

  Music Man was Leo Fender’s first venture back into instrument building after selling his namesake company to CBS in 1965. Once Leo was officially back in business in 1975, he introduced the single-pickup StingRay and dual-pickup Sabre. ...

• 1967 Wandre Etrurian “Black Tulip” December 2007

  This wild Italian creation is the work of Antonio “Wandre” Pioli, whose outlandish plastic, aluminum, and wood basses and guitars have achieved a cult following—both as instruments and as art. Nicknamed Wandre (VON-dray) by his father, ...

• Ampeg Baby Bass November 2007

  The Ampeg Baby Bass is an important chapter in the eternal quest to create the perfect amplified upright bass. It is also one of the first in a long tradition of alternate materials used in building basses. Originally conceived and ...

• 1959 Rickenbacker 4000 October 2007

  This Rickenbacker 4000 is a rare bird with an impressive pedigree and a number of famous descendents. While you may recognize its much-more-famous sibling, the 4001, the single-pickup 4000 debuted years earlier. While neck-through designs ...

• 1969 Gibson EB-3 September 2007

  The EB-3 was the culmination of Gibson’s short-scale bass line, which began with the EB-1 violin-shaped bass in 1953. The EB-1 was followed in ’58 by the EB-2 hollowbody [see Retro-Rama, March ’05], and the solidbody EB-0 a year later, ...