Recent content by Kevin Axt

Thanks Bob. I forgot about Barbera!

You gotta have a name other than “just another Chico bassist!” ;-) My Chico years were just about the best of my life. I loved it up there and playing with Charlie and Llew was the best crash course I could have had in learning to be a musician. Believe it or not, we were also the rhythm section...

Hey Tom, thanks for the suggestion and thanks for the kind words! Yes, I know it’s kind of tricky trying to find these things. The obvious solution would be to have Randy Landas, the builder track some new ones down, but the guy who custom-made these for him up in the Bay Area hasn’t made them...

No, these were hand-wound piezos. They were maybe maybe 1/2” square and 1/8th” thick, roughly. They were installed parallel to each string at the top of the bridge into a diagonal slot. Kind of like little 1/2 size Underwood pickups, but there are 4 of them next to the strings as described...

I saw this post and thought I should weigh in. It’s actually a custom made instrument by Randy Landas, a fine local bassist here in LA. That thing has been through a lot. I cracked the peg box off the neck about 20 minutes before a gig at Dizzy’s in NYC when someone accidentally knocked it out...