Going To California
Bass Player|March 2020
The Winter NAMM Show is the biggest, loudest event since that meteor wiped out the dinosaurs a while back. Joel McIver heads west, and returns with tales of the bass gear that will be kicking off the new decade...
Going To California

JANUARY 15TH, DAY -1

The sun is shining in Anaheim, California, and we, along with the editors of Guitar World, Guitar Player, Future Music, Music Radar, Guitarist, and other state-ofthe-art MI publications, are hitting the ground running, even though NAMM really starts tomorrow. After a quick coffee (the jetlag is kicking in), we troop off to the Marriott hotel where Martin are launching a new bass, which we get to try after speeches from the company’s Head Of Product Design, Fred Green, and other luminaries. This pleasant acoustic instrument will have a street price of around $1,800, we’re told, and is just the right way to begin the next few days of exhausting but exhilarating bass testing. A visit to Fender and Gibson’s previews the same evening was educational, with the former demonstrating the Mustang PJ bass and the latter catching our eye with their perennial Thunderbirds. Neither brand had many new models on offer, but then again, do they need to? Discuss...

Biggest bass celeb that we met today: Dug Pinnick of Kings X, a man who can do no wrong in our eyes. He was hanging out in Seal Beach at a rehearsal for the Dimebash event that we snuck into.

JANUARY 16TH, DAY 1

We’re up bright and early with an appointment with a certain B. Sheehan, whose new bass is being revealed to us in an exclusive from our friends at Yamaha. After a quick coffee we’re shown the new Silent Bass, a double bass which breaks down for transportation or storage in 30 seconds—we know this because they showed us.

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