A bass guitar owned and extensively used by late ZZ Top icon Dusty Hill has sold at auction for $393,700 (£313,830) – making it the second most expensive bass ever sold at auction. The 1953 ...
On December 5, one particular Fender Jazz Bass – bearing the serial number 266610 – belonging to arguably one of the coolest cats on bass, Bootsy Collins – and previously, James Brown – went up for ...
Soon after Leo Fender put the first mass-produced solidbody electric guitar, the Esquire, into production in the Spring of 1950, he turned his attention to its low-end equivalent, the Precision Bass.
Nowadays, any sense of the exotic evoked by a Fender Bass VI pales in comparison to how extraordinary Leo Fender’s electric instruments were upon their debut. Today, solidbody electric guitars and ...