Recent content by tony c

I was 13 - I played at Hot Pants Fashion Show at the Holiday Inn right outside the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City, NJ. The regular band punked out the night before, and my keyboard player's dad was friends with the promoter, so he offered up our services. We played Light My Fire for a full...

Dave, your Warmoth bass is simple, yet elegant. I really like basses where the builder allows the wood to speak for itself. Very nice job!

I picked up my uncle's right handed guitar with my right hand on the neck, and just started to play. I bought a Mel Bay book, and it had dots, not fingers, to show you how to play, so I went from there. A couple of years later, someone asked my why I didn't flip the strings. Oops, too late, I...

Carvin LB76 out of an Eden CXC110 and X112DLT.

I learned how to play a righty guitar but I did all the fingerings with my right hand - upside-down. Then somebody told me that Paul McCartney had the strings reversed, and why didn't I do that? Oh, well, too late to relearn. A year or two ago, my bass died. I had to get a new one. So, I...

Eden = Clean and clear!

I use a Carvin LB76 ... I used a 4-string SX for a few years (and had a Rick 4001 for a million years before that) but when the neck died, I bought the 6er. I found myself during worship songs riffing way up on the neck with the G and C. It fits in very well with the mix we have. I'd love a...

I just picked up an LB76 on eBay. I never played a 6er before, and I'm having a wonderful time with it. The neck is quite comfortable. It has the single coil pickups, but is very quiet. If I was buying one new, I would go for the long-scale option, the 35 incher. That would tighten up the...

Hello, brothers and sisters, I've been playing in worship bands since 1992, and was worship leader between 1993 and earlier this year. We left our old church, and now "I drive the bus", happily playing bass on Sunday mornings at my new church, Abundant Life Community Church in Mansfield, NJ...

Thanks, Ray, I appreciate the advice. Who knows where I might be in a couple of years ...

Ray, for the last bunch of years or so, I have mentioned to my wife on a very regular basis that I'd like to just leave my job, go to Roberto-Venn school, learn about guitar making, and then somehow go to work for Taylor Guitars, or some other guitar maker. A friend of mine knew Mr. Benedetto...

Birdseye Maple ... I always thought they looked great, but never played one. Now that I have a bass with a maple fingerboard, I really love it. Someday, when I've got a couple of spare grand laying around, I'll commission a custom job from one of you. The jobs I've seen here in Luthier's...

Some day ...

Let me preface this by saying that in the church where I was the worship leader, our musicians (including me) didn't get paid - all volunteer. I had a pastor once who asked me, as the worship leader, to go out and hire non-Christian musicians for our worship team, because he felt that the...

I started out my musical career NOT playing bass, but accordion. When you play accordion, you play right-handed (ever see a left-handed accordion???). Your right hand does all the work on the keyboard, while your left hand pulls the belllows and plays the bass notes. A couple of years into...