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Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsFender Honors Legendary Session Bassist Lee Sklar With Signature Precision Bass Fender honors legendary session bassist Lee Sklar with the Lee Sklar Precision Bass®, a faithful recreation of the highly customized P Bass that has been at the center of his unmistakable sound for decades. From James Ta
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsDavid Ellefson Announces the European Bass Warrior Countdown to Extinction Tour GRAMMY Award-winning bassist DAVID ELLEFSON has announced his BASS WARRIOR TOUR in Europe for December 2026. The tour will feature Ellefson and his solo band performing select cuts from his well-known catalog of Mega hit
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Spector Expands Icon Series with New NS Icon Neck-Through Basses Spector Basses announces the launch of the NS Icon Neck-Through series, the latest evolution of the Icon platform designed to bring the brand’s most celebrated construction method to a wider audience. Following the succe
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsArtist Update With Bassist Adam Rigg Some of you may remember my interview back in 2020 with bassist and frontman Adam Rigg of The Bad Day Blues Band. If you missed that one, you can check it out here. Well, time has certainly been flying by, and a lot has
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsSeptember 14 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram Check out our top 10 favorite basses on Instagram this week… Click to follow Bass Musician on Instagram @bassmusicianmag FEATURED @michaeltobiasdesign @adamovicbasses @rayriendeau @acguitars.co.uk @wase_hmz @polarisbasse
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Steve Amirault Reinvents Himself as U-Bass Bandleader Diva Miro Canadian Jazz Pianist Steve Amirault Reinvents Himself as U-Bass Bandleader Diva Miro… Canadian pianist, vocalist, composer Steve Amirault has released Vanity Project, his first album as a bassist and bandleader, under t
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Terje Gewelt, The Old Tree Norwegian bassist Terje Gewelt released an album of new compositions, The Old Tree, on Friday 4th September. Featuring Gewelt’s upright electric bass at the heart of a quartet alongside saxophone, piano and drums, The Ol
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: RockBoard Introduces the Second Tiers RockBoard is pleased to introduce our new Second Tiers, a pedalboard expansion created in direct response to years of requests from players. Customers had been asking for a tiered RockBoard solution in comments, posts, a
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Alberto Rigoni’s New Metal-Funk-Rock Album, Chrome Cobra Italian Bassist and Composer Alberto Rigoni (soloist, Burning Black, Vivaldi Metal Project has just announced a new Metal-Funk-Rock Album, Chrome Cobra. Alberto shares… These days, launching a brand-new band is becoming
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Positive Grid Announces Spark PEDAL Positive Grid Announces Spark PEDAL, an All-in-one Amp and Effects Pedal With Built-In Looper and HD Tone Creation. Positive Grid announces Spark PEDAL, a compact amp and effects pedal that also adds a built-in looper an
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsInterview With Hellmut Hattler: Career, Bass, Equipment, Kraan, and More Photo Courtesy of Gerald Langer Hellmut Hattler is a German jazz and rock bassist and composer. He founded the bands Kraan, Tab Two, Hattler and Siyou’n’Hell, and he still plays with them. He worked with international ac
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsCreativity vs. Knowledge — The Great Controversy: Part II From Knowing to Expressing In Part I, we explored one of the great debates among musicians: Is creativity more important than knowledge, or is knowledge the foundation of creativity?Perhaps the real question is not which
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsSeptember 7 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram Check out our top 10 favorite basses on Instagram this week… Click to follow Bass Musician on Instagram @bassmusicianmag FEATURED @garciasbass @fortalezaguitars @pensacustomguitars @jonesbasses @sandbergguitars @wase_hmz
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsBass Book: The Pillars of Electric Bass, Volume 1: Pentatonics The Pillars of Electric Bass, Volume 1: Pentatonics, is a large instructional method book entirely focused on pentatonic scales and their applications on electric bass. The book includes more than 500 pages and over 600
Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Emma Dayhuff, Mountains Available Now! Picture yourself as a dot in a vast mountain range. Early in the morning, you ascend a ridgeline as a thick bank of fog sweeps over the adjacent mountainside, fills the canyon below, and begins to overtake
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