By Bill Copeland on October 29, 2012
Guitarist Bob Pratte is a man of few words. So, he didn’t spend a lot of time boasting about his favorite gear. Pratte, from the Manchester, New Hampshire area, has been on the music scene for over three decades. After spending years and years trying this, that, and the other thing from the gear market, [...]
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By Bill Copeland on July 29, 2012
Alison Keslow is a very busy bass player. She has her own band, the Alison Keslow Trio, and she holds down the low end for high caliber artists like Scott Tarulli, Erinn Brown, and Katrin. Keslow plays a Sadowsky NYC four string jazz bass. “It’s an awesome bass,” Keslow said. “It’s based in Brooklyn, New [...]
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By Bill Copeland on July 25, 2012
If you’re anywhere near Lowell this weekend, stop in at Whitsett Guitar Works for their open house. Bill Whitsett is one of the area’s most respected master guitar repair guys and an authorized repair tech for pretty much all of the major acoustic and electric brands. Meet Kiminori-san, one of the master luthiers Bill worked [...]
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By Bill Copeland on July 11, 2012
Hey acoustic players, Check your bridge each time you change your strings. If you think it’s starting to lift away from the top of the guitar, try to slide a piece of paper into the crack. If the crack is wide enough for the paper to slide in (like in the photo), you have a [...]
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By Bill Copeland on July 3, 2012
Scot Gibbs has always been a Telecaster man. Though he has always owned and continues to own many brands of guitars, the Telecaster is his thing. The guitarist from the Manchester, New Hampshire area knows what sounds best to his ears. After all, he’s been playing out professionally since the 1960s and has had much [...]
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By Bill Copeland on June 5, 2012
Guitarist Pete Zeigler has been on the Boston music scene for years. He has been noted lately for his work with Worcester band Hey Now Morris Fader and the Boston band The Rationales. As they are two completely different bands, Zeigler uses two completely different live rigs for each. The guitarist gave plenty of detail [...]
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By Bill Copeland on May 30, 2012
Angelo Mullen has been plying his bass skills in northern New England for decades. Mullen is not a huge gear head, but he does have a few devices in his bag of tricks and does like to talk about them. These days, Mullen works as a substitute fill in bass player. He uses two axes, [...]
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By Bill Copeland on May 23, 2012
Technology allows musicians to do a lot of things these days. The guitar synthesizer is one tool that lets a guitar player multi-task on stage. Gene Sibley, of the Gene Sibley Group in Dover, New Hampshire, has been working with Roland Guitar Synthesizers for 20 years. “I use a Roland guitar synthesizer and a couple [...]
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By Bill Copeland on May 20, 2012
Rhode Island’s Bob Healey is a bass player who takes his low end possibilities quite seriously. Healey, of Rhode Island’s elite cover band 5 Flavor Discount and hair metal outfit Pozer, uses a few cool things to get the tones he needs. While Pozer is a hair metal band that only requires straight-forward bass, 5 [...]
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By Bill Copeland on May 9, 2012
Jeff Buckridge recently experienced a major revelation in his life. The Boston Horns guitarist discovered the joys of ukulele playing while on a vacation in Hawaii. Now, several months later, has a band called Jeff Buckridge’s Uke Joint that’s been playing gigs in the North Shore area of Massachusetts, during nights off from The Boston [...]
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