I play bass with my brothers Daniel, Carlo and Jon in Stellas Kitchen. We got together in 2007 at Daniel's to jam some of his many original songs. We'd all been involved in music and playing our instruments over the years but never played together as a rock band. The catalyst for this was really the emergence of Jon on electric guitar. And can he play! I think when the Hondo II was still alive, Jon came to me and asked me to show him how to play the bass guitar, to teach him (HAH!). So I showed him some basic finger positions and finger plucking technique along with the little bass bit at the start of "Another One Bites the Dust". And that was it. He then went away and studied the instrument and practiced.
As the Hondo II was'nt cool enough for me and I also got my first "real" job, I began thinking about getting another bass guitar. I didn't really know what I was looking for or exactly why but I decided I would get something 5 string. Five string basses were beginning to be used more in music and a lot of what I was listening to so I thought I'd try my hand at one. I stumbled across a Fenix SH 5 String bass . Fenix guitars and basses were made in Korea by the mainly piano manufacturer Young Chang. Its the yellow bass guitar in the picture and is a solid maple body with gold GOTOH hardware. What I really liked about this bass was its cut away small body design which gave great access to the high 24 frets (not that I really needed it!!)
So, the piano.. I began jamming (well dicking around really) with my friends in bands playing keyboard + piano.. Coupled with our band's need for "someone to fuken play bass man" and my lack of piano "rocking out-ness" I put my hand up and said .. "yeah man I'll fuken play bass!" So it was off to the local cash converters (of course) we went, looking to buy the band's bass guitar. Someone told me... maybe it was my mother I don't remember .. but they warned me of the perils of buying things jointly.. especially in bands. So I almost sadly parted with the $125 it cost to buy my first Bass Guitar in probably 1994!
As the Hondo II was'nt cool enough for me and I also got my first "real" job, I began thinking about getting another bass guitar. I didn't really know what I was looking for or exactly why but I decided I would get something 5 string. Five string basses were beginning to be used more in music and a lot of what I was listening to so I thought I'd try my hand at one. I stumbled across a Fenix SH 5 String bass . Fenix guitars and basses were made in Korea by the mainly piano manufacturer Young Chang. Its the yellow bass guitar in the picture and is a solid maple body with gold GOTOH hardware. What I really liked about this bass was its cut away small body design which gave great access to the high 24 frets (not that I really needed it!!) 