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Issue 60 November 2010


20 PAUL
TURNER
We quiz Paul on the
Jamiroquai’s new studio
album, Rock Dust Light
Star

Regulars Interviews
08 THE LOW DOWN
Keep up with all the latest new gear and
industry news…

14 BASS TO THE FUTURE:


SANDY BEALES
Introducing upcoming London bassist Sandy
Beales

16 TAKE FIVE:
DAMIAN ERSKINE
The West Coast bass guru reveals his top albums

18 BASSICALLY SPEAKING
We talk to Paul Egan, Jonathan Mitchell, Kevin
Anderson, Jamie Mallender and Alex ‘Billy’ Hill

26 ESPERANZA SPALDING
BassicallySpeaking BassicallySpeaking

Bassically Speaking Paul Egan


I play lots of different styles.
I grew up playing in the
is there, it doesn’t really matter
what style you are playing. 
sound incredible. Last year
I took delivery of the Little
gigs I use a Traveller 2x10",
and for bigger gigs I have
Bassists tell us what they do in a minute or less! school band and in Brighton I’m endorsed by Lakland Mark Tube Head and couldn’t the new Classic 104.

Esperanza returns with her most aspiring solo


Youth Big Band. This was basses. I currently have have asked for anything better. www.lakland.com
great for reading and getting a Lakland Darryl Jones For small club /paul-egan
and a rickety double bass, to grips with all different Signature 5-string Jazz, and
with a Boss Line Selector, Boss styles of music. Most I’m set to receive a new
TU-2, and a Boss ODB-3 Bass importantly, it got me playing 44-60 Custom this summer.
Overdrive when I’m feeling with other musicians of the They sound great, they look
manly, into a Hartke Kickback

offering to date
same age and gave us all a great and the build quality
12. It’s compact, portable and lot of experience. We were is fantastic. My Jazz Basses
unbelievable value for money. lucky enough to have some are set up with quite a low
I’d love a Markbass rig, but I great opportunities through action, and the playability
can’t justify it until we start this too – for example, going is amazing – nice, fast neck
playing bigger venues. on tour and playing at the even on the 5-string. You can
My bass heroes are Dan Montreux Jazz Festival in really pick out that classic Jaco
Berglund from E.S.T. and
now Tonbruket. His is a rare Kevin 2006.
The main styles that I play
tone, and get that classic
vintage jazz sound

Anderson
combination of technical are funk, soul and R&B, but as well as a more
skill, melody, perfect use of

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then I also love playing in modern tone. I

32 OWEN BIDDLE
Lostaura
effects, and brute force when pop/rock bands. It’s all about use Markbass
necessary. And, controversially, the gig or session and who cabs and
Jonathan Mitchell Adam Clayton. He knows
how to play with a drummer, My bass style is direct and
you’re playing with. There are
no boundaries between these
heads – they’re
lightweight and

The Lowly Knights


keep in the pocket, and look to the point, while keeping styles – if the vibe and groove portable and
cool doing it. Finally, Michael melodic undertones that
Manring – my brother and I sat drive the songs. I use a Fender
Less is more. We use a lot of life more powerful than a bass no more than three feet away Aerodyne Jazz Bass. It gives
instruments and vocals – our holding off until exactly the from him at one of his gigs in a great sound, is lightweight

Jamie Mallender
Meet the man providing the low end for the Brian Marshall of Alter Bridge talks us through his
EPs even feature a choir – so right moment in a song. It has Sligo in the west of Ireland and looks great too. I don’t a Bootsy Collins Signature possession is one of 300
my job is to lay the foundations the power to change lives. I use – he does things that seem use effects, but I like a nice, Wah, an Ampeg Scrambler, limited-edition 10th
and let everyone else take the Marcus Miller Fender Jazz and physically impossible.
Tony Martin
deep tone that cuts through Electro-Harmonix Micro Bass anniversary Billy Sheehan
glory. There are few things in Italia Mondial Classic basses, www.lowlyknights.com all the other instruments. I Synth, Hartke Bass Attack – Attitude II basses. It is the
have a Trace Elliot 7-Band the one piece of kit I couldn’t most purple thing ©onHelen
the Purvis
Combo, although I’ve used I started out as an old- am currently live without –Danelectro planet. It should live in a vault

Alex ‘Billy’ Hill


evolution as a bassist
the SansAmp Bass Driver for fashioned solid rock player playing both a Ventura 80 Cool Cat Chorus, an original somewhere, but it has been

world-famous Roots crew


smaller venues. The secret of because that was what I was and a Perception. Both basses DigiTech Whammy, Boss out and I’ve gigged it and it has
playing bass well is knowing into at the time: just digging impressed me immensely – BFL3 Flanger, MXR Phase 90 the scratches to prove it! I don’t
Scoundrels your place within the song,
keeping it simple when that’s
in with a pick and rocking out
in my coolest trousers, and
both for build quality and
tone. I have to say that it’s the
and an MXR Carbon Copy
Delay. In my rack there’s also
care – it would be a crime not
to take it out and play it now
the right thing to do, and throwing in a bit of tapping Ventura that really excites a DBX 160A Compressor. and then, though it is a little on
I play a 60s reissue Fender Squier 4-string bass being able to let the song to try to convince people me. The retro sounds on tap Obviously the mother ship the big side for my little girl-
and either a Trace Elliot or Laney 300 W amp. breathe, but if there’s room to I was a bit good. Over the and its amazing versatility doesn’t make it to every gig – sized hands…
I sometimes use a fuzz pedal. I feel that for the have a bit more presence, feel years I hope I’ve matured quickly won me over. I wanted it’s a little indulgent passion www.jamiemallender.co.uk
kind of music I play, four strings is all I need. free to elaborate on your part. into a much more versatile a passive bass that didn’t of mine. I use a Boss ME50B
More than four is great for jazz and rootsy dub/ My first bass was a simple musician. I’m into just about lack balls and which had with the Bass Attack where I

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reggae-based music. The secret of playing bass

38 GARETH MCGRILLEN
Yamaha; I can’t remember every conceivable style of classic sounds – and that’s need a quick set-up, and am
well is putting in practice hours, metronome the model, but the string music and I want to know how what I got. I also endorse the currently experimenting with
work and knowing your theory, but really just action was ridiculously high to play all of it! I play mostly Music Man Bongo, and have a Danelectro Free Speech
playing. I started out by learning songs that – anything past the tenth fret fingerstyle these days, but the used a double-humbucker which I am in the middle of
I was into, then playing them through with was impossible to play. I do plectrum still comes out for model almost exclusively recording on both bass and
friends. After a while you get a feel of how to not slap because it probably the faster numbers in the Tony for about three years. In the guitar. Larry Hartke – top man
play riffs in a certain style or a certain player’s wouldn’t sit well with our Martin set. On my solo album 24-fret, slim-neck, active-bass – was kind enough to offer
style. The greatest bass player that ever lived sound at the moment, but there’s fingerstyle funk, fast world, there’s nothing to touch me an artist deal, and I very
was Jaco Pastorius, as he played the bass like no you can never rule it out. heavy-metal riffing with and it. My basses are always armed proudly use the Hartke LH500

Shawn Economaki of alternative-rock band


one else, with funky free-time jazz odysseys that

Joel McIver chats to Gareth McGrillen of


It worked on the last Muse without the pick, Sheehan- exclusively with Rotosound for smaller gigs, and the Hartke
had the melodic qualities of something like a album. I’ve been known to influenced tapping, quite RS66Les, 50–110, for the LH1000 for the bigger places.
harp. I am a finger player nearly all of the time, slap the bass a bit during a bit of groove-based slap, maximum amount of tone and Great music is all about
but every now and again a song will require a rehearsal, when we break lots of note bending, some finger pain. the spaces in between, and
slightly different sound, so I will slap if I want to out into our jazz fusion jam subtle jazz stuff and a lot of On board the mother knowing where to back off and
make it funkier, or use a plectrum for a heavier sessions… experimentation. ship, as the largest of my when to stomp on a big loud
sound, especially if I’m using a fuzz pedal. www.lostaura.co.uk I recently became a pedalboards is affectionately button and attack like crazy.

Stone Sour
www.scoundrels.fm

Anglo-Australian band Pendulum


Fret-King endorsee and known, there is currently My most treasured

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Gear Reviews
50 MTD
KINGSTON
ARTIST & KZ
We check out a pair of cost-
conscious basses from the
MTD Kingston range

46 YAMAHA BB1024
The latest addition to the BB range
modelled on the BB2024, but with a
sub-£1,000 price tag

Bass Techniques

Dave Marks:
DevelopMent
rhythM section
tiMe
Developing 5/4
5/4 time, with a
we began exploring
nt, Part 4. Last month going to heat
Section Developme . This month we’re
Welcome to Rhythm feeling more comfortable
to get you (hopefully)
few basic grooves
Dave Marks things up pretty quickly.

freelance Figure 1
Dave Marks is a busy
out of plays, can sound very
bassist living and working on what the drummer
and recording Fast and Syncopated which, depending but the broken
London. His playing unusual accent pattern a simple rising idea,
This groove has an The pattern itself is over the track with
credits span a wide
rage of bands or just downright weird. this riff, try jamming
Larry Carlton, driving and energetic way. Once you master
it climb in an erratic

Gear
and artists, including drum.
rhythmic idea makes locked with the kick
Albert Lee, Carl Palmer,
Paul
but keep this rhythm
others. different note choices,
Carrack and many
is spread
At the minute, his time
out 8th note
between pounding
Jr. band,
rock with the Rick Parfitt Bass Techniques
grooves for
playing deep soulful
for
Ola Onabule and depping
West End.
Thriller Live on the
playing,
Aside from his full
rs
teaching and Rhythmmatte
Dave
masterclass schedule,
web presence,
maintains a heavy
site and
blogging on his own
his Youtube channel
keeping
content.
stocked up with fresh
www.davem arks.com

Figure 2
drum
Bass in 5, Drums
in 4 that places the kick
Cross-Rhythm Ideas: floor’ pattern, a groove answer’
play a nice ‘5 on the a strict ‘question and
this riff, the drums over. Each bar has
For the first line of foundation to play
provides a nice solid phrase. kind of
on every beat. This followed by a syncopated snare pattern. This
staccato 8th notes overlapping kick and

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phrase, with three 8th-note pulse and

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in 4/4, creating an is for you to feel the
the drummer plays g at first, but the key
In the second line to create a heavier,
more
may feel a little disorientatin notes become longer
rhythmic interplay second section the
Notice that in the
stay strong with it.
sustained rock vibe.

WOODSHED
A 5-string fretless acoustic bass? Nick Wells goes
surfing with the Alien in association with

to you
Dave’s column is brought
RhythmMatters
in association with k
www.rhythmmatters.co.u

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LOWDOWN
STUDIO 110
The Studio 110
promises stacks
Regulars 82 ANDREW MCKINNEY
Tuition Tip: Reading Notation

of features at an 74 THE WOODSHED 84 STEFAN


attractive price The story behind the Bass Centre Woodstock Bass REDTENBACHER
Funkyologies
68 ROLAND 76 ESSENTIAL EFFECTS
CB-30 This month, the Lovetone Meatball 88 JANEK GWIZDALA
This compact combo Modern Bass Improvisations
is all about great bass 78 THIS GOES TO 11 …
tone Alex Claber explores the harmonic series 90 DAVE MARKS
Rhythm Section Development
72 EFFECTRODE PC-2A 80 ON REVIEW
An outstanding compressor from UK valve We preview the latest bass-related CD and DVD 92 FRANC O’SHEA
effects specialists Effectrode releases from the likes of FreeBass and Hidden Bass Beyond: The Tempered Scale
Orchestra

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