Bassists Look Too Bored

Mark Hoppus is a strange man, but he's right! Poor bassists. He's mostly known as the bassist for punk-pop band Blink 182 and as one of the early "celebrity" twitter adopters.

Sportz Radio Star Recording

At Stellas Kitchen land we're recording our new EP.  So far we've completed the drum tracking and some guitar parts for two of the four songs and to be released on the EP. We've taken  extra time and effort to prepare how each instrument will sound this time through and have done a heap more experimenting.  Once we had the tempo, we recorded basic scratch tracks of guitar and vocals for each song. After they were down, we started trying to get some good sounds for the drums.  Jon is blogging the process here on the Gear Page forum. The aim of that thread to create a bunch of advice and sound samples/reference material etc, for anyone interested in recording and music in general.  Its a little bit into the inside of SK too. 

The West Coast P-Bass

More parts have arrived from the US so last night I got to building my Fender Precision/Jazz bass hybrid.  I'm gonna use this P-Bass experiment to both see how this hybrid goes and upgrade the my existing standard Jazz 4 to 70's style bass. The 70's Jazz pearl inlay necks I got from the US are just too pretty to "waste" on a P-Bass!! So there's gonna be some switch-a-roo parts swapping in this make-over. 

Frankenstein Bass Time!

On ebay there is a great online Fender guitar parts re-seller The Stratosphere. The have an awesome range of Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster bodies, necks, plates, pickups everything. Unfortunately, for my wallet, they also have Fender Bass parts.  Its a regular Jawa like recycling operation .. well  better.  So, I've decided to build myself a coupla custom fender basses.

Fender P Bass v Fender Jazz Bass

Great comparison and history discussion of the Fender Precision and Jazz Basses