Billy Voight / September 15, 2011 5:10 pm
My recent pros and cons list of adding a pedalboard to my live rig. Pro it will save me the time of setting up a tuner, DI and effects. Con it’s ONE MORE THING TO CARRY. (right now I can grab everything in a trip or two) That’s where Gator walks in and says, “Hey man I got this!” The [...]
Billy Voight / September 15, 2011 4:59 pm
More and more I’ve been seeing ukulele references in pop culture; Train’s “Soul Sister”, Eddie Vedder’s “Ukulele Songs”, a Tiny Tim reference in Insidious and recently I’ve seen a “Uke Jam” on my local Craigslist. I knew I wanted to dabble into the uke world, but I had no idea where to start. There’s ukuleles in all shapes, sizes, voice [...]
Billy Voight / September 15, 2011 4:41 pm
So in my last article about the Bass Brites I referenced that the strings on my P-bass were “deader than dead” and “covered in layers of sweat and Doritos grease” haha. To remedy Bass Protection Services from coming to my doorstep I thought what better time to review the new bass strings by EBS. EBS has been around since 1988 [...]
Billy Voight / September 8, 2011 4:49 pm
I’ll tell you as a bass player there are few things nicer than a new set of strings. Well OK, a decent backline cabinet, a competent guitarist, a sober, rock solid drummer and a singer with great pitch are up there too, but clean, snappy strings are a luxury every bassist should be able to enjoy often. Bass Brites wants [...]