Recent content by Ron Aguiar

I don't know anything about you, that is, how long you have been doing this ,how old you are where you play ( bars, corporate etc...) here is my $0.02 and worth at least half off that. I have been playing professionally since I was 15, over time I have toured in support of national acts, played...

Well here is a part of the story on my friend Peter who lost everything in the Colorado Fire of 12/30/21. I am a guitar repairman and builder who owns Colorado Guitar Company. I have mostly shut down my business with the exception of old clients. After the fire I contacted a customer who I built...

Pretty heroic to put out Karen Carpenter and I agree, she had an amazing voice, gone too soon. I think I might have to Put Ella Fitzgerald at the top of my list, but there are just so many, Laura Nyro, Bonnie Raitt, of course Aretha, Adele.... It's like asking who is the best bassist? or...

Certainly I believe they are prog, more because they stretched the awareness of listeners tan because of any arbitrary structural basis such as time signatures or heavily altered chords /progressions. The same arguments about mainstream AKA selling out or popularity has been made across multiple...

There is no gofundme set up as of now, we are kind of waiting to see how insurance will respond and then move forward, thank you to all who have replied with your amazing generosity

No, Peter, but I am sorry to hear of another bassist who took a hit

That is beyond kind, I am hoping that his insurance will cover most if not all of what he lost, of course the problem is that he lost all of his receipts in the fire as well as everything else-I will send him your response, just knowing that other bass family members are thinking about helping...

My friend and fellow bassist who I have worked with for the last 35 yrs lost his Japanese Jazz Bass, his 1983 AVRI 57 Bass, his Tacoma Thinderchief, his old King Cleveland 3/4 upright, his B15 and his Mesa walkabout along with literally everything else he and his wife have owned and collected...

I bought a used early 1960's Hofner 500/1 in 1968 traded it to my wife's cousin for Gibson SG and got it back from him 25 yrs later. it is an awesome bass, but I must say it does not get used, perhaps now that the Beatles documentary Get Back is out, it may go back into service. Next is my 1966...

I have and still do build basses, the Luthier I apprenticed to, Scott Lofquist of Wheatridge Colorado, used to build all of the Surine Basses for Scott Surine, who now does a great majority of the work himself, and he does it very well indeed. One of the things I learned was that the production...

This is a HUGE issue, I am a multi instrumentalist but have worked as much or more as a bassist than anything else. At one point I moved from bass to keys in a band. The bassist that replaced me worked in a local music store and was also an avid collector. Almost every rehearsal he brought in a...

Well I'm an old guy and I'm pretty set in my ways, also a builder and a repairman for the last 20+ years so I'll weigh in. I have never changed a pickup on a bass to get a different tone or sound, I have tried different pickups on new builds so I have some experience with that aspect but it...

Entwhistle used a P bass with the who in the early days- didn't seem to slow him down, and his tone was pretty much the same as when he went to Alembic!

You and I are not going to agree on this but suffice to say with my experience I can say you are not seeing the whole picture. I've owned many of the instruments you are enamored with and they are NOT Better than a fender they are just different- I don't dislike any of them (except perhaps one...

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