Recent content by johnmichael

"Frampton Comes Alive" was the reason I started playing again. I'd begun as a 7th grader in '66 after seeing The Beatles at The Colosseum in Seattle (I think The Raiders' "Kicks" was my first tune on bass). As a good little Catholic kid, I was horrified at all my rock wannabee buddies getting...

I've always loved the SG look. A few years ago I purchased a new Epiphone SG in the cherry color. It sounded ... meh ... and the neck dive was really bothersome. So I sold it, probably traded it in on something else, I don't remember. A few years later, I decided I REALLY love the look of the SG...

Well ... I never took any pictures of this bass while I had it, and now it's gone. Like many of you, I'm a collector but, with my 70th birthday just around the corner, I'm downsizing and whittling down my collection to JUST the stuff I use a LOT: my Epiphone Beatle bass, my Fender Precision, my...

I added one of these in Adriatic Blue Metallic to my collection several years ago. As you'd expect, I get lots of "ooh"s and "ahh"s every time I take it out of the gig bag it came with. It has a beautiful rich sound which leaves nothing to be desired. I've been very happy with it.

Receiving my first (of many, I hope) SS check in November. Decided a year ago to treat myself to a new Fender Mustang bass in Torino Red, and then let Pickguard Planet in Chico CA make a tortoise-shell pickguard for it. Went to internet "Images" to see how cool I'm gonna look ... and found yours...

My first SS check arrives this month. I decided a year ago to treat myself to a brand new Fender Mustang bass in Torino Red, and then let Pickguard Planet in Chico CA make a tortoise-shell cover for it. Went to internet "Images" just to see how cool I'm gonna look ... and I found yours !

I've owned so many high-end basses over the years ... Ricky and Fender and Gibson ... but, at sixty-four years of age, I'm usually showing up on stage or in the studio with my Epiphone Viola "Beatle" bass. It's very cheap, it has beautiful tone, it's lightweight and can be shouldered for hours...

I'm a "When I'm 64"-year-old bassist in Seattle. I started out in '66 in seventh grade with a Danelectro 56. I've owned and played Gibson and Fender and Rickenbacker and Music Man and soooooooooo many more. But ... I keep coming back to my Epiphone Viola I bought new at GC for $299 many years...

Paul McCartney. My dad was a professional pianist in Seattle, and I was raised in a household devoted to both classical and big band. As a four-year-old pestering my father over how in the world I could dance to "Take 5", I was told to ALWAYS listen to the bass, no matter what. By the time I was...

I was a Russian language major at the University of Washington in Seattle in '78, and paying rent and tuition by playing bass in several bands. A girlfriend gave me a copy of "Moonflower" for Christmas. I almost put down the bass after listening to David Margen's delicious bass lines, and...