Recent content by Billy B

An experienced set up person will get the most out of a PLEK Machine. Some people really have not mastered how to use the PLEK. Don't get me wrong.... The PLEK machine is a major breakthrough in bass technology but you need to still have the bass put in the hands of or have it PLEK'D by an...

+1 Everything is designed to work well as a system! I have never needed to turn up past 12:00 noon

I tried the RH450 through an Avatar 2x12 and it is KILLER!!! I then tried the RH450 with the Avatar 2x12 along with the RS2x12 and it was just obscene how good it sounded!!! It had a deep, phat, buttery low end with sparkling highs!!! The twelves were fast but also spoke with authority for...

3 Fretted 5-Strings 2 Fretless 5-strings 1 Fretted 6-string 1 Fretless 4-String 1 Electric Upright Bass 4-string (Fretless of course)

Maurice Houston!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maurice Houston!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maurice Houston!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1 Agreed!!!!!!!!!

+1 Yes!

LOL!!!!!!!! +10 LOL!!!

+1 Well said! Paul influenced so many bass players it is sick! He served each song he played on. I love the bass playing of Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. He serves the songs and co-wrote songs we still listen to to this day! You don't have to be a virtuoso to touch another person.... to be...

Les Claypool is an awesome bass player! Adam Nitti is almost science fiction! He is fantastic... Not just as a player but he is an amazing and humble human being!!! I've been able to email him back & forth... also chat with him through myspace and I can personally say he is "the coolest!""...

It is interesting to note that all of the top three vote getters are deceased. Do we make people larger than life after they have died?

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The first real bass I ever played was Maurice's Mom's 1959 Fender Precision when I was 12 years old! Ask Maurice! LOL!!! He put it in my hands while he was playing on a Fender Telecaster. We played Chaka Khan's You Got the Love! Billy B

When my son was about 9 years old (he's 19 now) my son was so happy at a Christmas present he got that he leaped up and came down on a five string fretless snapping off the headstock I had against the wall. My first concern was that he was okay physically. After I was sure he was physically okay...

YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!!!!! I have all of Adam's CD's and he is SLAMMIN'!!!! There is a bass player from England named Ed Poole. I have three of his CDs. He is a bad boy, too!