Year: 2017

Supro Huntington Bass

Supro launches the all-new Huntington range of bass guitars These short-scale basses from Supro combine the classic body shape of the early 60’s Ozark model with passive electronics and Gold Foil single-coil pickups, which are authentic replicas of the original ‘Clear-Tone’ pickups found in the vintage Supro Violin, Taurus and Pocket Bass models. It’s available in single, double and triple-pickup configurations with an optional piezo bridge and a wide range of metallic and transparent colours. You also get to pick from mahogany, swamp ash or alder body woods. The neck is maple with a black satin finish and a 30-inch...

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John Garrison: Tour Diary (Part 1)

John Garrison, bassist with James Blunt, talks us through his first week supporting Ed Sheeran in the US. Welcome to my tour diary, a collection of personal stories and impressions that I’m going to be sharing with you about the music, atmosphere and overall experience of the current Ed Sheeran tour in the US. Touring is always full of highs and lows, but we’re supporting a brilliant and much-loved artist in Ed, and I’m looking forward to taking it all in. Being the support band on a big tour you need to know your place, or else you run the...

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Donald “Duck” Dunn | Soul Fingers

Hal Leonard Celebrates the Life of the Legendary Stax Bassist Written by Nick Rosaci, with help from Duck’s family and friends, this book from Hal Leonard charts the triumphs and tragedies of Duck’s amazing life. As bassist for the famous Stax-Volt studios in Memphis, Donald “Duck” Dunn (1941-2012) laid the foundations to countless soul, R&B and rock recordings throughout the 1960s and ’70s. Having worked alongside the likes of Booker T. & the MGs, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floyd, Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, and many more, Duck was also a member of John Belushi and Dan...

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Porter & Davies KT Platform

 Porter & Davies Launch New KT Platform Unveiled back in 2015, the KT platform was designed to deliver a stage shaking experience by using the transmission of sound by Kinetic Transfer (KT) to enable you to hear and feel your bass playing. Porter and Davies have now re-engineered the original design to improve the frequency response and make it lighter, more robust and easier to handle. They’ve also expanded the range to include a choice of power and size options. www.porteranddavies.co.uk...

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Scott Devine & Lee Pomeroy

We talk Rush, Chris Squire and YouTube with two of the UK’s busiest bass exports. So what does it take to hold down the bass chair for Britain’s biggest band? “Though I might not think it, this is a big bass gig,” says Lee Pomeroy. “It might be the same arrangement every night, but you have to keep things fresh, otherwise you get stuck on autopilot, and if that happens you may as well take your cash and go home.” Scott Devine has been keeping busy with scottsbasslessons.com, an online bass community that currently boasts over 100,000 subscribers. “One...

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