One of the most useful music columns I ever read was in a guitar magazine in the mid 90s. I don’t remember the magazine (possibly Guitar World) and I don’t remember the guitarist that [...]

Before you embark on a career as a professional bass player you would be forgiven for thinking that you need to work on your ability to play anything that’s thrown at you. That’s how [...]

Fender Jazz Marcus Miller Signature EditionPrice: £800 (at time of purchase)Website: http://www.fender.com/en-GB/products/search.php/?partno=0257802305  I’ve previously mentioned that a lot of my gear had been bought out of necessity or problems I had to address rather than [...]

Schroeder 1212 Bass Cabinet (2×12)Price: $840 (£534)Website: http://www.schroedercabinets.com/  I purchased the Schroeder 1212 after spending several years looking for a rig that would cut through a loud band on stage without me having to turn [...]

I recently went through a phase of experimenting with different bass string gauges. This was mainly down to running into the age old problem of the flappy low B strings of most 5 string [...]

So you’ve got chops like Feraud, groove like Rocco and the moves like Jagger. You can fluently solo through Giant Steps at 300bpm, you can play The Black Page behind your head and can [...]