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Warwick Rockboard MOD5 Cab SIM/ Patchbay and TRES 3.1 Pedalboard $199, $99 (Approx)
Step on this new, affordable pedalboard solution, with Stuart Clayton.

David Ellefson
Megadeth’s bassist reports back after a packed hiatus from the day-job band.

Low Life Tax
The Heat bassist and BIMM UK Live Performance tutor Antonio Angotti talks us through becoming a dep.

BROTHERS BEYOND

Are the Wooten Brothers the most accomplished musical family in history? After a sit-down with Victor Wooten and his siblings, Ellen O’Reilly makes that very case

8 mins

Going To California

The Winter NAMM Show is the biggest, loudest event since that meteor wiped out the dinosaurs a while back. Joel McIver heads west, and returns with tales of the bass gear that will be kicking off the new decade...

6 mins

Piano Man

Leon Lee Dorsey returns with MonkTime, an accomplished new album of Thelonious Monk compositions. Joel McIver hears how Dorsey paid tribute to the jazz icon

7 mins

Heavy Weather

How does a classic band, two decades past its biggest sales, suddenly start selling out shows and achieving major success? Let’s ask Andrew Levy of the acid jazz legends, Brand New Heavies

6 mins

Charli Says

Fast-rising bassist Vicky Warwick considers the way forward

2 mins

Travelling Man

While his main band Megadeth is enjoying a break, bassist David Ellefson has plenty to keep him occupied. We catch up with the bassist who can’t be stopped...

4 mins

Winter Of Sam

Sam Bean has played bass in a lot of spooky bands—the Antichrist Imperium, the Senseless, the Berzerker, and Mithras among them—but Werewolves may be his most demanding yet, he tells us

3 mins

Miked Up

Jazz maestro and record label owner Michael Janisch digs deep

4 mins

Squier - Classic Vibe '60s Jazz

‘Not another Jazz’, you may be thinking. Well, looks can be deceiving, as Mike Brooks discovers

2 mins

SIMS Enfield Lionheart Standard Air 4 and 5

A newly-designed Enfield Lionheart, they said... Do we want to take a look? Of course we do, says Mike Brooks

3 mins

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Bobby Vega
Ever since his first recording session with Sly Stone at the age of 17, Bay Area bass badass Bobby Vega has set the bar for funktastic pick playing. In this month's cover story, he goes deep on his plectrum technique and artistic approach. Plus: interviews with Cheap Trick's Tom Petersson, Dream Theater's John Myung, and Jerry "J Blakk" Henderson of Big Sam's Funky Nation; reviews of the Blackstar Fly Bass mini-amp, Mesa-Boogie D-800 head and Ultra Lite cabinets, and new pickups from Lindy Fralin; Jazz and R&B lessons you can use; a full-song bass transcription of Deep Purple's "Gettin' Tighter;" and more!