Bummer of bummers, the bass arrived on Monday with a broken tuning peg. It being of Chinese extraction, replacements were hard to come by, but ultimately Trade Up was able to locate a semi-compatible piece among their collection of scavenged parts, so all was well and I’ve got a shiny brass peg on my D [...]
Hooray! The bass is en route to Portland as of June 30th, albeit moving rather slowly. No planes for this axe — it’s being shipped via UPS Ground — so it’s only covered about 250 miles. Just 2,600 to go. Brown estimates arrival to be on Monday, July 10, which is a bummer. Hopefully some [...]
Hrm. Still no response from Jay Turser on the email, but I’ve located a Turser dealer who sells via web and eBay — musiclandcentral.com — and who comes highly-rated by those in the harmony-central reviews who have purchased from him. Via e-mail, he tells me that though it’s not listed, he has a JTB-3/N [...]
Checked out the Ibanez Artcore at Guitar Center last night … I was dreading the corporate megastore experience, but my particular salesguy, Eric, was quite nice and not-pushy. Point to them. Nice bass, the Artcore, though the one in stock had a crack in the top. Oh, and while Ibanez insists that the Artcore line [...]
Huh. OK, so Portland Music Co. seems to have nothing in hollowbodied bases. Apple Music Row carries Epiphones, including the viol-bass, starting at $399, but I’m damned uncomfortable in there, being closely scrutinized by the salesdude as though I were gonna walk out with it under my coat. Too self-conscious, perhaps, but still, it harshes [...]
So far the Höfner 500/1 knock-off is still the front-runner, but in part that’s because I’ve had a hell of a time finding any other comparably-priced hollow bodied basses to play with. $1,300 Gretsches aren’t under consideration. The Rogue VB100, ordered from Musician’s Friend, is still the best deal I’ve found, at $230, but if [...]
Some years ago — some many years ago — I played bass. Upright. Classical. That was in high school. My college, being rather small, didn’t have much of a music program, and I was inclined to other pursuits at the time, so it went no further. And yet, the bass has followed me. [...]
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