All BOTW features for 2017
Above is all the BOTW features for 2017! Have you submitted your bass for a 2018 feature? You can download the above image here. Alternative download location is here.
[Bass of the Week] Upgreader Guitars Tiamat
The feature bass this week is a custom build by Upgreader Guitars. Owner Dmitry Budko writes: My name is Dmitry. I play a band called Weesp. We play progressive atmospheric alternative metal with a lot of analog synth and clean vocals. I experiment with low tunings so prefer multiscale basses. For the previous two albums … Read more
[Bass of the Week] ASG JRS55 Concept Bass
The feature bass this week features a very nice 5 piece ash construction. Builder Adil Sabit writes: One of my models which called “J Bass” I had the honor to present to your attention in 2014. It was selected by you as the Bass of the week. I’m full of gratitude to you to this … Read more
[Bass of the Week] VOX White Shadow M Series
The feature bass this week is a mid-1980s vintage. Owner Ken Mattholie writes: I was looking for fretless bass that sounded great being the first criteria and also looked different from all the other fretlesses. A lot being copies of Jaco’s and I certainly don’t play that way. It tends to be driven or overdriven … Read more
Mark King’s Big Cheesy Feet
In the video below, Mark King (you know him from the band Level 42) explains that the main reason he has to literally strap tape across his pedals is because he has big cheesy feet. Mark said this, not us. 🙂 However, this begs the question of whether pedals for bassists are really designed right … Read more
[Bass of the Week] Custom B Barribass 4 string
The feature bass this week has the builder’s stamp of approval on it. Literally. Builder Bryon Suter writes: I named this bass guitar “Swamp”. It’s ash, but not swamp ash. The guitar was commissioned and I was unsatisfied with the way the color turned out. I stopped the build, built a new body for the … Read more
The godfather of slap bass
Bassist for Sly and The Family Stone from ’66 to ’72, Larry Graham Jr is not only known as being an unbelievably good slap bass player, but is also credited with inventing the technique. Below is a video of what Larry is all about, and he explains that the reason he started thumping the bass … Read more
[Bass of the Week] Hilton 6 string fretless
When a luthier doesn’t reveal his secrets, sometimes amazing things happen. Owner Richard Nunez writes: Earlier this year I contacted Pete Hilton about a new build that would be his idea of a perfect bass. I wanted a 6 string fretless, but told him I would not give any input because I wanted him to … Read more
Getting the Duff McKagan bass sound
Duff McKagan, best known as the bass player for the band Guns N’ Roses (he has also been the bassist for Velvet Revolver and Jane’s Addiction, to name a few,) is without question a P-bass player. While true that Duff has played different basses over the years, his preference is a P-bass, whether a Precision … Read more
[Bass of the Week] Ronaldo Custom USA Guitars Bad Bird 1
The owner of this bass, Charles Lambiase, describes the build as being made by “A humble 83 year old Master Luthier out of Pastore Music named Ronaldo Orlandoni. The man is an absolute tactician with his hands and genius with his mind. Whether it is a guitar or bass from scratch, an accordion from 1930, … Read more
