Recent content by Polythemus

This comment takes me back to an old argument. Having an expensive bass or guitar will NOT make you a better player. Your friend with the expensive Ricky bass should fall to his knees and bless his parents for shelling out at least a grand. Remember this--give Jimi Hendrix a not so good Teisco...

Rocket Surgeon: Well, as far as I'm able to determine, all current Ampeg amps are made in Vietnam. Ampeg IMO has sold out. This makes most of them junk which accounts for the difficulties related to selling them. I wouldn't have one if someone gave it to me. Also, I guess I'm a bit prejudiced...

Jazz is the thinking man's music. I once met the great Art Blakey (the penultimate jazz drummer who introduced to the world an unknown young man named Winton Marsalis) in the late 1970's at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit. I asked him why jazz was not that popular. His reply--"Jazz is for...

Whenever someone your age is experiencing a crisis related to either work or music, always remember what the great John McLaughlin once told me many years ago--if you love music, you must devote yourself to it at the expense of everything else, and then you surrender yourself. If I was in your...

Let me tell you a little story. Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived a young man who wanted to play the bass guitar after seeing Gary Thane blast his way through a 2-hour long Uriah Heep show in 1972 via a late 60's Fender P-bass and several Ampeg SVT stacks. About a year later, this...