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Author Archives: Bruce
Profile Bass: review
The upcoming issue of Bass Guitar magazine has a review of the Profile bass… here are a few excerpts… Bruce Thomas was known in the middle years of his career for playing a salmon-pink Fender Precision, but this splendid instrument – responsible for many of his best bass parts – was pinched by some callous swine in the 1980s. In that instrument’s continued absence, Thomas has got together with Barry Moorhouse of the Bass Centre to create a bass that … Continue reading
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Forgive my vanity and indulgence here, but I was forced to LOL (as they say) when I read the comments on a guitar tab for Crimes of Paris (a poignant title, to be sure) on the guitaretab.com website… “The tough thing about Crimes of Paris (as in many EC songs) is that he’s actually only playing five chords on the guitar, but the changes in the bass notes and the vocals are what you really hear. So, if you play … Continue reading
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Needle in a Haystack
One of my practice songs – the Velevelettes Needle in a Haystack, from when I was knee-high to a grasshopper — before the days of quantizing and ‘drop-ins’ we had to play in time – after a cold shower and a 10-mile run, of course.
Oh Well
This review from one Amazon customer puts it so well that I’m now accused of being ‘him’!
New Interview
I’ve just done a new interview for Mr Harry Pye in his excellent Rebel magazine.
New! New! New!
Here’s a new post … featuring my new YouTube clips … using my new guitar … to promote my new book. (Yep … that old trick.)
Rough Notes
‘A most entertaining hybrid of memoir and cultural history’: Rock-n-Reel Magazine. More info on the Rough Notes page …or at Amazon UK and Amazon US
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Tagged Attractions, Bruce Thomas, Elvis Costello, fantastic voyage, hall of fame, lakeland, oliver's army, Paul McCartney, the who, U2, vertigo
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