Markbass CMD 121H
Aguilar TH700
Markbass cabs
2 pbass, 1 with flats 1 with rounds
2 jazz bass, 1 fretless 1 fretted
1 fully carved double bass
Favorite Genres
Jazz all the way!
Gigs and Ensembles
Few thousand club/pub gigs.
Sessions for anyone, Jazz duos at cafés, and Klezmer,Dixieland Jazz band, Django Reinhard jazz workshop, Impro Jam Workshop with Gil Askey and so on!
Previously Owned Gear
My first DB was a carved Czech bass when I was 13years old, I did have a circa 1920's carved 1920's Hungarian Double bass, Chinese carved Ma Zhibin bass (beautiful instrument, fantastic tone) German or Czech Hybrid bass, German Ply bass, carved Raggeti bass.
Microphones: DPA4099B
Pickups: Several Underwood pickups, David Gage, Planet Wing, FC. Also had a Schaller magnetic pickup that I sold fast as I hated the sound I got from it!!!
Amps: Polytone 15", Gallien Krueger 800RB, Gallien Krueger 400RB, Trace Elliot tube, Ashdown, Markbass 121p, AI combo, AI Clarus
Preamps: Sadowsky, SansAmp, Fishman Platinum.
G.A.S. List
My only wish is that arthritis keeps the well away from me.
Influences and Teachers
C. Mingus, P. Chambers, C. Mingus, C. Mingus,C. Mingus, C. Mingus, Aladar Pege, Ray Brown, Miles, Parker, Gil Askey
Hobbies and Interests
Transcribing any instrument parts into bass then steal it, use it, own it, and playing my DIDGERIDOO