by Scott Feldstein | Monday, September 5, 2022 | music, rants
The other day I was watching a video clip of Geddy Lee and Alex LIfeson of Rush play one of their prog rock instrumentals, “YYZ,” with drummer Omar Hakim. The trio appeared on stage as part of a tribute concert honoring recently deceased Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, August 20, 2022 | music
Well, the bass lineup change has now been fully executed. I sold the Warwick on Facebook to a guy from Chicago. (No shipping!) Now I’m left with my Ibanez BTB and the new Sire V5 – a killer active 35″ scale five string, and a killer passive four string 70s...
by Scott Feldstein | Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | rants, tech
Something I do roughly 2-3 times a day, every day: open a photo in Preview on my MacBook Air, reduce the size by 20-25%, then save it. I do this because I took the photo on my iPhone which has a 12 megapixel camera on it that produces images approximately 3,000 by...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, August 13, 2022 | music
So the Sire jazz bass didn’t arrive until Thursday. The outer shipping box was so damaged that its contents were not far from dropping out of it. Fortunately the inner, Sire-branded box within was in pristine shape. First thing I notice is that it’s...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, August 6, 2022 | music
My Ibanez BTB745 is scratching my five-string active bass itch so well right now that I’ve begun to look at the Warwick differently. Now, it’s my rock bass, with its big passive humbuckers. But in that regard it’s kind of “metal” and not very retro. I want a simple...
