AC/DC appear to have replaced drummer Phil Rudd for their upcoming Power Trip performance, but bassist Cliff Williams is coming out of retirement
The revelation was made via band-shared audio of rehearsal footage
Bass news
Where is Paul McCartney's original Hofner bass? "Surely if anyone can find my guitar, it's you guys"
The Lost Bass Project is on the case of the missing four-string
Blink-182 postpone UK and Ireland shows as Travis Barker flies home due to an “urgent family matter”
Barker, whose wife, Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant, has shared photos of a prayer room via Instagram
Fender has just added over a dozen new acoustic models to its California Series
Featuring “period-correct specs from the ‘60s and ‘70s”, V-shaped necks, short-scale models, 12-strings and bass guitars, this California Series knows how to party...
Xotic Effects ups the headroom as it gives its Bass BB Preamp pedal the V1.5 treatment
If the original BB Preamp was a powerful boost-cum-drive, the V1.5 looks to be even more useful and now has the potentially game-changing option to run it at nine or 18V
Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr has a new signature Fender Jaguar – a built-to-rock short-scale bass, finished in Tiger’s Blood Orange
Kerr’s signature Jag is a beaut, with gold hardware complementing the black ‘guard and finish nicely, and a powerful custom humbucker/Wide Range 'bucker pairing
Schecter gets graphic on its new signature models for The Cure bassist Simon Gallup
Gallup gets a new EMG-equipped semi-hollow Corsair to join a newly refreshed Ultra Spitfire solidbody, and they are hard to miss with those red finishes and lion graphics
You’ve seen him on The Eras Tour, now watch Taylor Swift bassist Amos Heller get Justice for Jason Newsted in a fierce playthrough of Metallica’s Blackened
In an alternate timeline, maybe Heller swaps one blue-chip stadium act for another and is playing bass for the biggest of the Big Four. On this evidence, he sure has the chops
John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage
How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…
