Recent content by LisaMann

You learn how to do it but I just doing it, and doing it, and doing it, and doing it, in a band context. Do it long enough and it doesn't feel like juggling anymore at all.

Yes, she is all about the SONG, like Leland Sklar

As for hard rock/metal I will agree with the others who brought up the incredible BOB DAISLEY! Super inventive, a hard rock Paul McCartney. What a briliant songwriter too. He is one of my main influences. Another huge influence is Mercyful Fate's TIMI "GRABBER" HANSEN. He's coaching...

KEITH FERGUSON, RIP. From Fabulous Thunderbirds. There are many blues bassists who have transcribed his parts note for note, he's almost got a cult following in the blues scene, and deservedly so, but not many know him outside of that. He modeled the brilliance of another underrated and...

I have a CRIPPLING hand injury. All I did was reach out too far (from sitting on a bar stool) to put my bass down on a stand. I put all the weight of my bass on my extended, turned hand. I can barely dress myself and cook, and I have gigs ahead for months. This is really depressing. Wrist...

I have a few chronic pain issues from being a working club musician for 20+ yrs... but now I have an acute injury... It was reeeally simple- I was on a sit-down golf resort gig, and I placed my stand too far away from my stool. I tried to put down my bass (9lbs) while staying on the stool...

Greetings fellow Warwick lovers! I don't use this bass on many gigs because it weighs 14lbs. Its a 1989 neck-thru 6-string Thumb. It brings the funk... I filled in with a Tower of Power type band recently and the guys in the band loved its sound. Midrange punch!

What a concept- change your strings? Just turn up the treble! ;^) Funny, I play in the blues scene in Portland, OR where most of these cats have old flatwounds from 1972. I like listening to them, but I can't stand sitting in on their axes. I like D'Addario XK 6-string sets (yes, I play a...

Greetings from sunny (for about 5 minutes today) Portland, OR!