Bass Player US - January 2015

In dieser Ausgabe

Bluegrass/classical titan Edgar Meyer’s astonishing new duo album Bass & Mandolin is a triumph of musical spirit, rich in melody, rhythm, dynamics, taste, and technical wizardry. We get an inside view of Meyer’s bowing and pizzicato style, his compositions, and his massive, extended-range upright. We counter this wood-enriched story with a metal feature on Troy Sanders, who muscles the new Mastodon album, Once More ‘Round the Sun. We also recap LaBella’s Lords of the Low End event; check in with Dot Hacker and the Sound of Animals Fighting bass extremist Jonathan Hischke; meet Geddy Lee’s nephew, Rob Higgins, of Dearly Beloved. Plus: Get a close-up look at distortion, and dig into reviews of the Elrick Expat NJS bass, the Kemper Profiler Amp, Acme Sound's Low B Series III cabinet, and a pair of Creation Audio Labs pedals. We close the issue out with a full-song transcription of Dan Harman's buzz-saw bass line to Edgar Winter’s 1973 historic, chart-topping instrumental smash “Frankenstein."