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Review by Jake Wolf – LMtube800 To say that the folks at Markbass are on a roll might be putting it mildly. They’ve been busy churning out a dizzying array of new innovative products for bassists, as well as thoughtful revisions and updates for their most popular models. Recently, they sent me their new LMtube800 [...]
Review by Jake Wolf Email Jake | Read More Reviews I must admit, when it comes to the custom bass biz, I’m always leery of the new guy. Sure their stuff looks great, but how does it stack against the tried-and-true the industry benchmarks? Is it just another pretty face, or does it deliver the [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine – Connect with Damian in the Community Fito Garcia “Mi Bajo Rumbero” www.myspace.com/fitogarciabass This is fairly astounding to me. Fito Garcia made an album of Afro-Cuban music with nothing but multiple bass tracks, percussion and four singers… and it’s REALLY good!! I won’t say that I don’t miss the piano and [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine – Connect with Damian in the Community Evan Marien “Between Worlds” www.evanmarien.com Man, I am mightily impressed with Evan’s debut album here. If you haven’t heard of him yet, he is a recent grad of Berklee College of Music and the current bassist of choice with David Fiuczynski (and many others [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine – Connect with Damian in the Community Dead Kenny G’s (Brad Houser – bs) “Bewildered Herd” www.thedeadkennygs.com – www.myspace.com/basshouser Woah.. Not yer granny’s music at ALL! But I loved it (and the live show kills. It’s a total trip.) Allow me to introduce them to you. With Skerik on horns you [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine Connect with Damian in the Community Christian McBride “Kind of Brown” www.christianmcbride.com The title says it all.. This album plays (to my ears) like an homage to the style & class of the era of jazz which inspired this amazing quintet. The band could not possibly be any better, in my [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine – Connect with Damian in the Community Cai Marle-Garcia “Mr. Ears” www.caimarlegarcia.com The UK’s own Cai Marle-Garcia is poised to impress with his debut release, “Mr. Ears”. Primarily a fretless player (sporting a fretless Linc Luthier bass in one pic.. Many don’t know about these beautiful instruments but my first fretless [...]
Meet Reviewer Damian Erskine – Connect with Damian in the Community Arturo O’Farrill “Risa Negra” www.arturoofarrill.com Many of know that I have a real affinity for Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban music in particular. New York residing and Mexican born pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill has given me much to study and enjoy here! Introducing us to what [...]
Review by Raul Amador – A while back Larry Hartke sent me a tune from David Pastorius’ new album “Sense of Urgency” to check out. Now, Larry has never sent me anything to listen to so I figured this one might be interesting. So, I sat down and programmed my mind to overlook the obvious [...]
Review by Raul Amador – Imagine that you could spend a day (or at least 117 minutes) at Billy Sheehan’s house and get some serious insight into his bass playing! This is what this DVD is going for. Once you get past the camera work, which can be distracting, this is a fun time. Billy [...]
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