Recent content by PJMcK1954

Does anyone play an 8-string bass??? I picked up a Rogue LX-408 hoping to get that tick-tock bass sound of the old C&W records, which sometimes was achieved by a guitar playing along with an upright bass. The Rogue LX-408 featured active/passive pickups. I've thought about removing the treble...

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I think that the scale length is 34" (which is standard). If I had your bass along with a tape measure handy, I'd be happy to give you you a more precise reply!

You might be the only living person hat knows about the Vox White Shadow. Back in either 1984 or 1985, I picked up the fretless model (new) while stationed in Scotland. Within only a few years of purchasing it, I returned to the music shop and ask some questions. The very same gentleman who...

My very 1st electric bass could be best described as a Japanese knock-off of the Fender Precision Bass, which was probably made sometime around 1965. I have such great memories of that bass. I wish that I never let my lead singer work on the body for a shop class project. I also wish that I...

As a teenager, I became very comfortable with compliments and grew too complacent for my own good. I developed a reputation for being the sort of bassist that "plays bass like a lead," and called a "dynamite bass player," When I was 20, I joined another band and played electric bass and...

A bassist who wants to progress as a musician and become a more in-demand bassist needs to learn guitar and drums. It's not important to become a skilled guitarist or to even become a guitarist, but it sure helps to have enough guitar knowledge to be able to identify the chords that the...

I recall reading (though I don't remember the source of information) that Leo Fender (1909-1991) liked C&W music and hoped that his then-newly marketed Precision Bass would initially become popular with the Nashville scene. It didn't. Ironically the first artists to adopt the Precision Bass...

Initially, a lot of bassists hated Leo Fender's Precision Bass and regarded it as a "b*st*rd instrument." This attitude was quite prevalent when a young British bassist was playing the local music scene in the early 1960's. He had a change of view, but it's not his change of heart that he is...