Recent content by Ross Rowley

After years of playing long-scale Fenders...It was the cool factor for me. In the 70's, all of the local bass players in my area were playing Fenders. ALL of them. When the 80's came around with the advent of punk and new wave, music and fashion changed things. I wanted to be the odd man...

For my first band in 1976, I purchased a Kasino Lounge Bass amplifier. An offshoot of the Kustom brand aimed at the country music market with Roy Clark as one of their main endorsers. Kustom felt the country music artists wouldn't go for their tuck and roll amps, so they created the same amps...

Jonathon Richman and the Modern Lovers. The band was really, painfully quiet. Jonathon Richman played acoustic guitar unplugged and was louder than the drummer. I think JoJo was making a statement about loudness with this performance. Per usual, it was a funny performance and the crowd loved it.

That's a very interesting idea....

I've been experimenting with creating the Nashville Tic Tac bass sound on electric four string. By palm muting and boosting the treble a bit, I feel I have come pretty close. Understandably, the Nashville Tic-Tac bass sound was created by Harold Bradley and Bob Moore with a baritone and...