Recent content by CaseyL

I always preferred standing to the left of the drummer. I have two reasons: 1) in high school and college jazz bands, I was always set between the drummer and the horns - so habit; 2) I like being close to the high hat and away from the China cymbal.

If you want a bass, buy the bass and don’t look back.

That’s very interesting. Since you worked for Hamer, I feel I must tell you: I have never understood why the Cruise Bass didn’t take off and become a mainstay. The only two electric basses i have never and would never part with are my Jazz and the Hamer fretless 5. Both basses feel and play...

Yes, it is lined on an ebony fingerboard, 34” scale. The bass gives you all the Mwah you could want.

I think you will be very happy with the bass. I record an album in Dallas in the late nineties with the one pictured below (I still have it and love it). The engineer loved it; more than he did my '72 Fender Jazz and German Warwick 6-string Thumb. The bass I have sounds similar to yours: mine is...

Since an opinion on which Leo Fender bass is the best is inherently subjective, I am with you: give me the Jazz Bass baby!!!