Recent content by John Beishline

Dug out the oldies and listened to the second R.E.M. album Reckoning.

Has anyone had this experience? My nephew logged into the TMBG website but when he clicked on "my library" what came up instead of the lesson sequence was a popup that stated "no content found, lets go shopping." I know that he has all 20 lesson plus the PDF book because I bought them for him...

Do you string it with flat wounds or round wounds?

Does anyone have anything to say about the Guild Starfire II?

No real consensus. Seems to be pretty evenly split.

I presently have a Player (MIM) P bass and it is a good bass but I am thinking about an upgrade. I have heard nothing but good things about The American Professional II P bass but is it really worth the nearly $1,900 price tag?

I seem to be in the minority on this, at least among people that I know, but I prefer to access the truss at the headstock rather than the body. I have a player P bass for that reason. Which do you prefer?

The first bass line I learned was Smoke one the water which walks up the first three frets on the E string. At the time my hands were too small to cover that with on finger per fret so I adopted a method of playing the first and second frets with index finger, third fret with middle finger and...

I have a Mexican P bass that I have been playing for about a year and after several string changes the bridge is still firmly anchored flush to the body.