Fender: Road Worn ’50s Precision Bass & ’60s Jazz Bass
Sep 1,2009
Take the groove-goosing confidence you get from gigging with a real “player’s” bass, add the reliability and comfort of playing a new, pro-quality instrument, subtract the anxiety of schlepping a collector’s item that costs more More...
Mike Lull: T-Bass
Nov 1,2009
YOU HEAR IT FROM BASS PLAYERS OF ALL stripes: “I’m a Fender guy,” or “I’m a Gibson guy.” It’s as if pledging allegiance to one or the other declares one’s position in the greater congress of bass. On one side of the aisle More...
Danelectro Dead On ’58 Longhorn
Jun 1,2010
The past decade has seen the popularity of reissue basses continue to grow. While some of the most noticeable have come from Fender (such as the ’51 and ’57 Precision Bass reissues), in the ’50s and early ’60s Fender wasn’t More...
Ibanez Ashula SR 2010ASC
Aug 1,2010
By Rod Taylor One of the things I love about the electric bass is that it’s still a young instrument, and its role in music is still evolving. This means that instrument design is still up for grabs as well, a More...
Music Man Classic StingRay 4- & 5-string
Apr 1,2010
If a non-bass-playing layperson were to look at the original 1976 Music Man StingRay and a single-humbucker-equipped 2010 ‘Ray 4-string, they’d struggle to notice any difference. Us bass geeks know better, though. The More...

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