Recent content by Bob Hoover Ross

Didn't realize they were gone! I had avoided basses with mahogany necks ever since living with a Gibson EB-0 for several years and hating it. But that was ~40 years ago, and in the ensuing decades I've learned that I probably hated that EB-0 for any number of reasons that had nothing to do with...

Did not pay any upcharge for "all-black" but I lucked out and got an all-black ebony board anyway!

I have a Warmoth 5-string fretless neck that came on a bass I bought second-hand in 1996 or '97, and judging by the lacquer-checking on the body the instrument was definitely several years old by the time I got it. But I can't remember if this neck was Warmoth's "Super Wide" or their "Wide 5"...

Mine started and ended with McLaughlin: After hearing what he did on his Johnny McLaughlin, Electric Guitarist album, and then seeing him live with the One Truth Band from the front row, I was ready to throw in the towel completely on guitar playing...but I definitely realized that anything I...

Thread Drift: Irrespective of which tubes are in it, how are you liking the amp? Is it for gigging, or just at-home use? How are the clean sounds, or is it already getting crunchy at any usable volume? Been thinking about getting myself a small all-tube combo -- mostly for recording and at-home...

As someone who is so talentless when it comes to applying finish that I have butchered even the simplest Wipe-On Poly, I'm going to humbly suggest wax; specifically, Howard Feed-N-Wax. Won't be as impervious to scratches as a harder finish, and may require re-applying every year or two or five...

I've been recently digitizing/archiving my cassette collection, and I recognized that during one ~6-9 month period in 1985, every guitar part I played was recorded through a Rockman! Sometime in the early 90s I bought a second-hand Scholtz Rockman Sustainor (the half-rack preamp/tone-shaping...

I haven't looked to see what bridges Warmoth is selling these days, but fwiw I've had a Schaller 3D-6 roller bridge on two different guitars and I have no complaints. (...although fwiw both 3D-6 bridges I owned had the saddle-locking screw, which doesn't appear on their current model...

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You guys are reminding me what a pathetic procrastinator I am! Other than applying the Helmsman Spar Urethane I haven't done anything further in the 4+ years since I started this thread. Part of the delay is because when I applied the finish it created some blotchy spots that I wasn't able to...

Apologies for replying to a 6 month old thread, but just in case OP still hasn't made a decision, and based on the OP's description of their interests, I would suggest: - a P Bass body with a single passive P Bass pickup ...because the bodies are balanced in both vertical and horizontal...

I would start 2 to 4 new Warmoth build, and then pay for someone far more patient and detail-oriented than I to assemble them!

Any idea when that Blue Montreaux album was recorded? Looks/sounds kinda like a precursor to Mainieri's Steps/Steps Ahead bands.

Been listening to a lot of Renaissance these past two weeks after receiving the news that bass player Jon Camp -- who was a huge influence on wee teenaged me when I was first learing the bass -- passed away at age 75 on December 13th. Renaissance was a bastion of mid-1970s prog, but not really...

Wow. And the ad is copyrighted 1987, which is right around the time I was seeing his quartet perform regularly in NYC. Maybe the Marshall was his practice amp and never left his apartment? Awesome guitarist no matter what amp he's playing through, that's for sure.