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I play electric bass, both fretted and fretless, in many musical styles. I've been playing since 1970 — fretless since 1986. I'm a self-taught player with an excellent ear, though I've never learned to read music.
I've played rock, country, lots of acoustic-style folk, and jazz standards now and then. I'm basically a groove player, though on acoustic songs I prefer to add some lyrical flavor to a bass part. It depends: if there isn't much rhythm (as with a solo singer/songwriter), I'll use the fretless to add more of a texture than a groove. I never got into slapping or popping when they were popular styles. In the 70s, I used to be able to fake my way along on rhythm guitar and keyboard, but I haven't played either for a long time.
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With Billy Foppiano and the Hula Playboys at the Cambria Pines Lodge, Tue Sep 16 and Wed Sep 24, 8pm. No cover or minimum.
I play with Guitar Wizard Billy Foppiano and percussionist Phil Hauser, as the Hula Playboys, on first and second Mondays nights at 8pm at the Cambria Pines Lodge.
Beaujolais: (from left) Scott Bailey, Linda Barbour, Matt Franscioni,
Keith Barbour, Rick Auricchio.
Photo by Heidi Franscioni.
I play with Keith and Linda Barbour, Scott Bailey, and Matt Franscioni in an acoustic group called "Beaujolais" (Keith, Linda and I had been performing together since 1994 as a trio, called KLR) We perform a collection of originals, jazz standards, folk favorites, even a little country — whatever sounds good.
We've taken our name from the saucy French wine, synonymous with spontaneous celebration.
I've got seven beautiful basses, so I'm able to choose the right one for the song.
For small gigs, I use a custom-built mini combo from KRL (Kirkwood Radio Labs: Kirkwood Rough in San Jose). This 23-pound brute can send 80 watts into an external cabinet, though I almost always use it with its four internal 5-inch drivers. During construction, we chose these drivers to voice the amp for the Maize fretless. The amp also has a built-in DI.
For most gigs, I'll use either an Eden WTX-260 or an Eden WT550B head driving one or two Eden D112XLT cabinets. For larger venues I've built a Bill Fitzmaurice Omni 15 Tallboy cabinet. I also have a Hughes and Kettner/TubeWorks rack setup. The rack uses the H & K "BATT" tube bass preamp/amp, feeding into a MosValve MV982 160w power amp. (Both the BATT and the MosValve amps are no longer in production, but MosValve amps can often be found on the used market.)