Interview with Marco Mendoza by Ty Campbell, Bass Frontiers Staff Contributor Recently while in St. Louis, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Marco Mendoza. Marco has played with such great artists including Ted Nugent, Whitesnake, Edgar Winter, Bill Ward, Blue Murder with John Sykes, Delores O’Riordan, and countless others. Marco is [...]
Avenged Sevenfold, from Huntington Beach California, influenced by bands such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Corrosion of Conformity and many others was formed in 1999. The bass play-a-long contains 7 tunes from 4 different releases. Tunes included are Nightmare from the album Nightmare released Jan 1, 2010, Almost Easy, Afterlife, and Scream from the album Avenged [...]
Greetings Bass Players & Bass Friendly Types! Bass Frontiers is extremely proud to announce that as part of the introduction of their newest model, the Emperor 5 Standard, the amazing folks over at Fodera will be giving YOU the chance to win one of your very own! Unless you’ve been living as a hermit for [...]
Anyone who has not been living under a rock can recognize the signature sounds of beloved Stevie Wonder songs, such as “Do I Do,” “Sir Duke,” “Higher Ground,” and “Superstition.” Nate Watts has been providing signature bass lines alongside music legend Stevie Wonder since 1974. This dynamic duo makes for quite a show and if [...]
Review by Jarad Clement Bass Frontiers Media Editor It is evident that bass amp manufacturers have recently been focusing a lot on making the normal heavy, back straining and massive amplification a thing of the past. Ampeg is no exception, and at last years Winter NAMM they introduced a new line of bass amps made [...]
The Peavey Headliner, a new rack-mountable bass amplifier head with matching enclosures in the Peavey Tour Series, packs huge power and innovative tone features in a lightweight 10 lb. package. The Peavey Headliner is a 600-watt max bass amplifier head that puts an incredible range of features at players’ fingertips. The amp features a seven-band [...]
by Jon Liebman Review by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Contributor Bass Aerobics by Jon Leibman, as it states on the cover, is a 52 week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving, and maintaining bass guitar technique. Yes, there are 52 exercises, and each exercise covers 2 full pages. Bass Aerobics has 5 chapters, which cover [...]
Music retailers have voted the Peavey AmpKit™ LiNK, the Guitar World Gold Award-winning high-fidelity guitar interface for iOS devices, one of the Best Products of 2011 in Music Inc. magazine. “Peavey’s AmpKit LiNK electric guitar adapter provides users with a powerful way to play, practice and record high-quality tones anytime, anywhere,” wrote Music Inc.’s editorial [...]
A musical icon, Abe Laboriel, and one of the industry’s brightest new stars, Tal Wilkenfield, have joined Kala’s roster of U-Bass endorsees. Abe Laboriel has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks and was described by Guitar Player Magazine as “the most widely used session bassist of our time”. In 2005, Abe was awarded an [...]
As a bass player and a martial artist I have always believed that there is a strong connection between the two…. As a bass player I have been working on my craft for 28 years. Near the end of high school I began playing with FIRST GLANCE which played locally around Los Angeles, we eventually [...]
Erik:
I Would Like to Know When you gonna give this kit ?
Thanks
Erik...
Zoot:
Many of the charts in the original Real Book were based on transcriptions and (unapproved)...
jim Stinnett:
thanks Matt, great article, great player...
Erik:
I Would Like To Win This Kit Too ! The Bass is Awesome !:D I'm Looking Forward To HALLOWE...
Erik:
Its a super Kit ! But When the Draw will be done ? :D
BASS4EVER !!...
