About Me

And and old shot from public tv in 1990:




That's me during the first year I played holding somebody else's Rick 4001. The thing was messed up and had the frets ripped out.

This is from my first year of electric bass lessons playing a Charvel/Jackson that my dad got my for Christmas. I hated the headstock, but it was a great sounding bass and solid as a rock. Got stolen from the back of my car.

Here's a Japanese '62 re-issue P-Bass that I had set up with LaBella flats for studying James Jamerson Motown lines. Sold it on eBay years ago.

This is me at Steel Drum Band rehearsal with my ultimate gig bass: a 1964 Fender Jazz that had been to hell and back. The fretboard was ebony--yes, someone pulled the rosewood board off of there! The alder body had been refinished a few times, so I had it re-done, too (in a sweet Olympic white nitrocellulose finish). Badass II bridge, EMGs and the original reverse tuners. That was a great bass. It was a player, though, so when I knew I would no longer gig on electric bass I sold it on eBay and plugged the dough into another project.

This is my American Standard, purchased for $50 from A.J.'s next door neighbor. Got $500 in trade for it towards my current bass. I had no idea these things would fetch big money today. I still came out ahead of the deal, though... my current bass has appreciated in value more than the worth of a mid-60s American Standard.