Bass Player
WILL POWER
Austin-based Bonnie Whitmore returns with a bass-packed new album—and some serious food for thought...
4 min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
RAW POWER
There is no band like AC/DC. There is also no bassist like Cliff Williams. “Jazz makes me feel kinda twitchy,” he confesses to Joel McIver
10+ min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
JACKSON Minion JS1X and SQUIER Mini Precision
Small but perfectly formed, these affordable bass guitars bring a touch of fun-sized charm to the table—but can they compete with their full-grown siblings, asks Joel McIver
4 min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
GOING SUPERNOVA
Nova Twins bassist Georgia South brings a huge tone—and attitude—to modern rock music. We find out (partly) how it’s done
6 min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
AMPLIFIERS EXPLAINED
Dan signs off this issue with a dig inside your amp
3 min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
YAMAHA SLB300 Silent Bass
An electric upright that assembles in 30 seconds? Jon Thorne sets his stopwatch...
4 min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
Nashville Bound
Producer, author, and bassist Norbert Putnam looks back half a century at a session with a difference—the near‑mythical Nashville Cats recordings with Elvis Presley
10+ min |
Holiday 2020
Bass Player
FENDER – 60th Anniversary Jazz
Now a sexagenarian, is the Jazz Bass still sexy? Chris Gill takes this Sixties-inspired model for a swing
3 min |
Holiday 2020
GOLDMINE
COLLECTING CHRISTMAS!
GOLDMINE WRITER TIM NEELY TAKES YOU THROUGH THE STEPS OF BUILDING A CHRISTMAS ALBUM COLLECTION IN A COST-EFFECTIVE WAY.
10+ min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
ELTON'S COLLECTION OF JEWELS
AN EXCLUSIVE CHAT WITH ELTON JOHN ABOUT HIS RECENTLY RELEASED ELTON: JEWEL BOX — AMONG OTHER THINGS.
10+ min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
WILCO's TEETH
THE MAKING OF WILCO’S SUMMERTEETH: LOOKING TO THE PAST POINTED THE WAY TO THE FUTURE.
10 min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
XMAS ROUNDUP
2020 CHRISTMAS RELEASES REVIEWED
6 min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
HENDRIX'S Hawaii
OVER THE RAINBOW: JIMI HENDRIX TAKES A HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY.
10+ min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
Talking Winos: A Chat with Keith Richards
ICONIC ROLLING STONES GUITARIST KEITH RICHARDS TAKES A FEW MINUTES TO CHAT WITH GOLDMINE ABOUT THE LATEST RELEASE OF X-PENSIVE WINOS MATERIAL, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM, IN VARIOUS FORMATS.
10+ min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
STILL AS FEISTY AS EVER!
DIONNE WARWICK STILL FEISTY WHILE APPROACHING 80TH BIRTHDAY
10+ min |
January 2021
GOLDMINE
All The Pretty Things
DICK TAYLOR, GUITARIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE PRETTY THINGS, DEPARTED THE BAND AFTER THEIR CONCEPT ALBUM S.F. SORROW, BUT RETURNED IN 1979 FOR THE LONG HAUL, UNTIL THE RECENTLY RELEASED (AND LAST) ALBUM, BARE AS BONE, BRIGHT AS BLOOD.
10 min |
January 2021
Bass Player
THIS MONTH - BASS ELECTRONICS EXPLAINED
Dan Veall closes this issue with a guide to on-board electronics
3 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
TAKING FLIGHT
Bassist Timothy B Schmit looks back on being asked to join the Eagles in 1977, just as they hit the big time.
10+ min |
December 2020
Bass Player
STILL LIVES
In times of darkness we all need light, and that’s just what Camel bassist Colin Bass is hoping to bring with his meditative new album, Still...
6 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
Q THE MUSIC
Kicking down boundaries like there was no tomorrow, Suzi Quatro owned the Seventies, with 50 million album sales, a primetime TV slot, and bass mastery that put most of her contemporaries to shame. But the decade wasn’t all about ‘Can The Can’, she warns: there was a whole lot of ‘Can’t’, too...
10 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
Introducing
New, cool, and otherwise attention-grabbing bassists whose playing you need to hear, in their own words.
1 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
FRANCIS ‘ROCCO' PRESTIA
The great Tower Of Power bassist, whose muted playing style made him one of the funkiest musicians of all time, leaves us.
3 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
The 70's In Bass
“The Seventies were all about lead bass!” says the mighty Suzi Q. Let’s take a 148-bassist look back and figure out what really went on back then...
9 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
All That Jazz
Fender’s beloved Jazz Bass hits 60 years old this year. We meet Allen Abbassi, Senior Product Development Manager, for a look back—and forward—on the subject of the mighty J...
6 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
New Jimi Hendrix film and album feature bassist Billy Cox
I was there! A historic moment in bass world—recalled by those who were there to see it
2 min |
December 2020
Bass Player
Tony Visconti
This month’s forward-thinking bass player: David Bowie’s longtime collaborator Tony Visconti.
1 min |
December 2020
Guitar World
ROLL THEM BONES
ON SKELETONS, BROTHERS OSBORNE’S BIGGEST AND LOUDEST ALBUM, AMPS RAGE AND SEETHE, HELL IS RAISED — AND THERE’S DAMN NEAR TOO MANY WALLOPING GUITAR SOLOS TO KEEP TRACK OF. BELOW, JOHN AND TJ OSBORNE LET THE SKELETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET
10+ min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
This Wretched Underworld
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’S BRANDON ELLIS AND BRIAN ESCHBACH TALK TONE HUNTING, SONGCRAFT AND OPERATING ON THE ODDER END OF THE SPECTRUM
8 min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
POWER PLAY
Regardless of what fate throws at ’em, you just can’t keep a great band down. In this worldwide exclusive interview, intrepid AC/DC icon Angus Young discusses life after Malcolm and the band’s positively charged new album, POWER UP
10+ min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
Surf Guitar's Next Chapter
SURF-ROCKER MARTIN SCHMIDT TALKS GW THROUGH THE SURF GUITAR BOOK, AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE TONES AND TEXTURES BEHIND THE REVERB-DRENCHED GENRE’S MOST FAMOUS RECORDINGS, GEAR AND GUITAR HEROES
2 min |