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The Emmy and Grammy winner has led the musical charge for everyone from Rihanna to Eminem and Justin Timberlake. He explains why he went for Jackson over Fender for his signature bass, what makes five
The Berklee grad on what drew him to six-string basses over fours and fives, why sometimes it’s important to compromise on tone, and modern playing techniques versus the joy of “a simple melody you ca
This superb high-end audio system, featured at the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas, included Estelon Forza speakers ($170,000/pair) in dark silver liquid gloss powered by MSB M500 mono amplifiers ($75,000 each). The digital source was an MSB Select DAC ($115,000), a Select Digital Director ($27,500), and a Taiko GSM Extreme server ($30,000). Cabling was by Synergistic Research: SRX Interconnects ($9,500), SRX Slimline speaker cables ($22,500), and SRX power cords ($10,000); power conditioning was also Synergistic, the Galileo SX with an SRX power cord ($27,995).
From the Bass Player Archive: An interview with Sting
Paul McCartney made the Hofner bass guitar famous, not the other way around. Indeed, it was McCartney who made bass players cool, giving them a status in rock almost equal to that of lead guitarists. That is why the new global search for McCartney’s 1961 Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass – the most important bass in music history which disappeared later that decade and has now been found – is causing such interest.