It doesn't matter how well-honed your guitar chops are, the way your instrument is set up will have a huge effect on how ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer wanted his Fender bass to sound more like an upright with CSNY, and he had a rather unique ...

Fitting fresh bass strings can be a real treat: you realize what your bass guitar was missing out on and the top-end ...

You seldom hear people say, "I love the bass guitar in that song." But the bass holds the whole darn thing together. That's ...

Occurred on February 28, 2022 / Folkestone Info from Licensor: "I was planning to record a cool video showing my bass guitars strings vibrating in slow motion but as I placed my phone into my ...

Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...

The bass guitar is a curious beast ... It’s what lets us keep playing when the metaphorical guitar string snaps or the lead singer has forgotten the lyrics entirely. It’s the unsung hero ...

Though the two budding virtuosos had plenty of respect for one another, it perhaps isn't a huge surprise that their ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

We got nerdy and figured that since the E/A pickup is usually closer to the neck, it gets way more of the swing of the strings, giving them more body and low-end ... we were curious to know if this ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.

One of the Wall’s distinctive features was making sure that the sound from each of the four strings on Lesh’s bass guitar ...