This week’s selection is from David Eassa. Here’s the story of his innovative build in his own words: I have, what you call an outreach band in the church I attend, I am a bass player but I couldn’t find a guitar player with the same vision and my keyboard player was always flaky. I … Read more
This week’s selection is from Paul Tausch from Episteme Instruments. Here’s the story of the build in his own words: I’m a long-time wood-worker that fell in love with the bass when I first heard Geddy Lee play on 2112 back when I was in Junior High, so building instruments is a perfect fusion for … Read more
Robert is a musician, arranger, music director, whose principal instrument is the bass guitar. He has shared the stage with Barry White, Lou Rawls, Neil Diamond, Reba McIntyre, Frankie Laine, Ndugo Chancler, Franco De Vita, Freda Payne, Marty Paich, Harry Belafonte and many more. He is currently working on his first album of solo bass … Read more
This week’s selection is from David Dupuis. Here’s the story of the build in his own words: This is my third complete build. As many other builders do, I started out by doing mods on mine and my friends basses and guitars which over about 18 months evolved into doing my first build. The bass … Read more
This week’s Selection is from Shawn. He’s been building for 10 years and is looking for your feedback to see if he should branch out. Here’s the story in his own words: My name is Shawn Lowell Long. I am an artist, designer, craftsman and musician who loves making things. I’ve combined my love of … Read more
This week’s Selection is from Tim. He’s got one of the sweetest 12 Strings we’ve ever seen! Here’s the lowdown… Story of his build: I’ve been building since 2000. I’m a fan of bassist Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick, and I was friends with Jol Dantzig in high school during the late ’60’s, who was … Read more
This week’s interview is with Eric Morgan. The bassist for the NYC Doom outfit “A Pale Horse Named Death”. Here are some excerpts from the interview: [Background about Eric in his own words] Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Been playing bass for 38 years, started right before I turned 10 years old, and have … Read more
The selected bass this week features a bass that Bastiaan Bargmann built himself. He says: Story of his build: This was the second scratch-built bass that I finished. It was actually a twin build, the firstborn was a double-cut fretted and this one, the second-born, was this single-cut fretless. Both had the same construction, neckthrough hippie sandwiches … Read more
The selected bass this week features a short scale design with a great story. Jake writes: This bass was the result of lying in bed wondering about what was possible. “Why are bass necks so long? Was it just because Leo Fender thought that was how they should be?” I’ve had a couple of short-scale … Read more
The feature bass player for this week is Alex Landry. We interviewed Alex, asked him about his gear and this is what he had to say. (Also, be sure to check out the video at the bottom of this article to hear some of his playing. Tell us a little bit about you… My name … Read more
