I've been playing the bass for over 32 years. I've played all types of rock & blues. Lots of alternative stuff and progressive/hard rock, and traditional blues. I've been with the After Midnight Blues Band and Will Owen-Gage for over 6 years. The last 11 years I have been primarily playing fretless bass. I just got an 8 string Chapman Stick Bass (unfortunately not fretless...), and am working it into the rotation... Formerly with the South Texas Destroyers, ReBeca, Retrofit, The Buzz Band, jack acid and Time and a Half (all from San Antonio), Upaya and Circuit (Austin), Dealer's Choice and Mixx Fixxer (East Texas).
That's my Baby in the background. It is a 2001 Status Graphite Energy Artist 5 String unlined Fretless. Status is located in Colchester
Essex, England. The make one of the finest basses in the world! I'm lucky enough to have two of their instruments!! The other Status is a 1997 Empathy Artist 5 String Bass. It is fretted.
I also have:
1974 Rickenbacher 4001
1977 Fender Precision Bass Unlined Fretless (maple fingerboard!)(I bought in new in 1977! One owner, baby!)
1984 White Steinberger XL2 4 String Lined Fretless
1984 Black Steinberger XL25UF 5 String Unlined Fretless
1997 Ovation Celebrity Deluxe Acoustic Bass
2001 Ovation Balladeer 5 String Fretless Acoustic Bass (Prototype)
1988 Chapman Stick 10 String Polycarbonate Model
2005 Chapman Stick Bass XG 8 String Graphite extended scale
Ampeg SVT4Pro 1200 Watt Amp and SVT Classic 610HLF Cabinet & an SVT Classic 410HF Cabinet
Be sure to visit my YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/fretlessbass5
"It is sometimes harder to know what it is that we know when we think
we don't know what we know. Also, knowing that we know what we know or
did know or will know will bring knowledge of the knowable to those who
know what we know, if only we knew it."
D. Rumsfeld
Here's an old jack acid video from 1998, at The White Rabbit in San Antonio
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Here's a slideshow of the South Texas Destroyers @ the Enchilada Warehouse in San Antonio on 7-20-07:
Photos by Becky Yelderman
