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    When I saw the first issue it looked like reprints from GP rather
    than new material.  I take it you find this one otherwise?
    
    							Brian

    
    I have picked up this issue myself and just like the first issue
    I'm dissapointed again.  Most of the stuff if not all of it is
    reprinted articles.  I really don't think we will see a good dedicated
    bass player magazine unless we start it ourselves!
    
    Ed "Mr. Ed" Degagne
    DTN  267-3404
    

    Hold everything!  The new Bass Player has just came out.  I think
    they have the Notes conference over there at the publications
    headquarters because someone must have heard my last comment!  This
    new one is alot better, any serious or not so serious bass player
    should check this one out as soon as possible.  Great Job this time
    around!
    
    Ed "Mr. Ed" Degagne
    		

    
    The third issue, uh, no the first issue, uh, no the *premiere* issue
    of Bass Player is now out.  It is officially a quarterly now, $3.95 on
    the stand, subs are $12.95 "if you act now" (it says regular rate is
    $17.95, that's more than the stand price!!!).
    
    Monthly columns by Dave LaRue of Steve Morse's band on beginning
    topics, Anthony Jackson on who knows what, Randy Jackson on "pop" bass,
    the usual equipment and record reviews, etc.  We need more bassists out
    there, GP is twice as fat, a buck less per issue and comes out three
    times as often!!!
    
    This month's cover is Billy Sheehan (who else), there's a Jack Bruce
    transcription (good!!!) and yet *another* Jamerson article by Dr. Licks
    (I surrender, I agree to buy yer book).  Where's the upright players?
    I think I'll wait a couple before plunking down for a sub....
    
    							Brian

    
    Issue #2 is here (and it's an euipment special...sheesh, more stuff
    about whether or not I'm a dweeb because I don't have a 5 or 6 string
    bass, etc).  Saving grace is the Anthony Jackson interview concludes
    with some more controversial ideas and a two-chorus solo of "Stella by
    Starlight" from Bob Magnusson is transcribed and analyzed.  Also a new
    Chuck Rainey column.  
    
    At least the only MIDI rack pukes in the ads are bassists  8^)  8^) 
    8^)
    
    Still waiting for the Rick Calcagni article....
    
    							Brian

    BP is now bimonthly.  That might be good news...but they have started up
    a column like the Mike Varney "Spotlight", just for bassists. Gimme a
    bucket...
    
    There's more than lip service being paid to the upright so far, which
    is good news, and the transcriptions lean more to jazz stuff than
    two-handed tapping....but then again, a tapping feature is promised for
    next issue.  Man, skip it and let's have some Jerry Jemmott
    transcriptions.
    
    						Brian

    
    
    	re: .-1
    
    	Are they still doing "special issues" like some of the earlier
    ones or is the mag more generic, with a little bit of everything.
    
    	I prefer the latter. 
    
    -T
    

    
    These many years later, I can say that I like Bass Player; I've
    been buying it regularly since the issue with Flea on the
    cover. I figgered that I'd read it for awhile before subscribing;
    looks like they'll get my sub as I'm sick of trying to find it
    locally as it comes out at irregular intervals. Plus I hate the
    kind of places one has to go to find it in the Springs....locals
    will know what I mean :-).
    
    I'd actually like to get some back issues. They used to list some
    at $7 apiece (a li'l grease, please) but even that ad has the real
    early ones marked as sold out. So, a question and a request...anybody
    ever see any back issues anywhere? Got any you want to sell? How
    much for ze leetle girl? If you, gentle reader, can answer "yes" to
    any of these questions either now or in the future, I'd appreciate
    hearing from you.
    
    DAP
    

>    Plus I hate the kind of places one has to go to find it in the
>    Springs....locals will know what I mean :-).                      
    
    I'm pretty sure I saw it in either McKenzie-White or B.Dalton up by
    Chapel Hills Mall.  You might check 'em.
    
    Greg

   Maybe Daltons.  I tried McKenzey-White and it was a no-go.  "We *used*
   to carry it, I don't know what happened!".  And with all the bass players
   in this town, too.  :-)

   -- Sam
   

    
    thanks for the tip on Dalton....I've never tried there. McKenzie
    White, never easy to get to in after-work traffic, is now officially
    unaccesable with that new Walmart in the neighborhood. Anything
    to avoid the place who's name, as someone once put it so well,
    "would indicate that one was primarily employed in the music
    business" :-). Of course, magazines are the one thing I've never
    had to chase a salesbozo around to get a price on.....
    
    DAP