Bassiste Magazine numéro 92

We miss the concerts and it is, it is necessary to admit it, mainly to play in public that we broke our piggy bank one day to buy a four strings. So yes, there is the drag that could play this role of catalyst at one time, but for that we needed parties and for the moment, it's been ages since we saw the shadow of a live or the tail of a cherry in a glass of liquor, even in moderation.<Sure, our president has called on us all to renew ourselves, to buy a tiger to ride, but by now, said tiger is starving and we're finding it harder and harder to find the idea of a live screen satisfactory. This is especially true since the economy of this kind of performance effectively concerns only a very small number of artists, so small that it leaves 99% of us out in the cold.
For all that, enthusiasm does not wane in the community of musicians and especially bassists. We still find a way to be passionate, to create, to plan and to hope for the complete reopening of the places still occupied by the professionals of the show.
Renewal means adapting the way you play on a daily basis, confronting all possible styles, as Reggie Hamilton does, who has evolved in all styles, while rubbing shoulders with major artists. It is also to be able to shake the metal planet, by releasing like Gojira an album which is at the top of the US charts all categories included, what Jean-Michel Labadie tells us. And if these bass monsters have made you want to go back to your scales, we have our little pedagogical monsters that will give you a hard time and many recipes to make your beloved audience move, waiting for your sharp grooves to raise the temperature. And what better way to renew than to check out our Bass Story, which tells the story of how Fender kept modifying its Bassman to create the late '70s behemoth that is the Bassman 135.
Also, check out our tests with a revisit of Sadowsky's Jazz Bass model, a new version of Cort's flagship A4, and a review of the most anticipated amp and effects modeler of 2020 and 2021 combined: Neural DSP's Quad Cortex.<Finally, your magazine continues its metamorphosis and, if you haven't yet taken advantage of our new subscription offer, we can only encourage you to take a look at it and to snap up our goodies, software, accessories offered in collaboration with our partners.
Obviously with all this renewal, it would seem that despite the rain we've been getting lately, the sun is never far away.
The Editor