Recent content by Dennis Pence

The Irish Rovers Doug Kershaw Parliament

"The Wedding Song" and "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tennille (don't judge me)

Do not confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up!

1966, everything was a Fender except the "fiddle" bass of McCartney (I grew up in the south). Too be picky Danny Bonaduce, aka Partridge, could not play the bass, but he did get to hold one on TV with Laurie Partridge.

One song! I can't even pick one genre.

For a boxer - Lowbee For a Jack Russell - either Casady or Bruce or if desperate Brusady

When I began playing I wondered the same thing but it did not cause any problems. The concept of high/low did. Why do you find the higher notes lower to the ground? That one took 2 or 3 minutes to comprehend. Maybe Leo got it backwards after all. The simple answer is sometimes we just accept...

Early 70's Kustom tuck and roll. I don't remember the output of the head but it had a cabinet with 2x15 speakers and could rattle windows. Probably not the best tone but at 15 I really only cared about the volume so it was what I needed for school dances and irritating the neighbors during...

On my TARDIS

It started with "Paranoid" by Grand Funk. As one critic stated it, "a band that only 14 year old boys could love." Then I found Jack Bruce and Cream, in particular "Sunshine of Your Love." It kept growing from there.

A good musician, bassmen included, must have a large degree of technical mastery. A great musician, bassmen especially, must be able to move the emotion of the song from the heart to the fingers. It is the ability to emote in the bottom end that separates the blues wizard from the blues god. A...

I began playing a stereo but graduated to a cheap Fender Jazz knock off after discovering Jack Bruce and Jack Cassidy. I guess you could say I just got jacked-up on the bass (if you are not too embarrassed to say it that is.)