You join a fine tradition.... Eddie Van Halen, Brian May, Les Paul... Hard to find a bass player in this category but Lee Sklar comes close (he and John Caruthers built his Frankenstein bass). Norm Sundholm, the bass player for the 1960s band The Kingsmen, designed the first Sunn amplifiers (my first bass amp ;-) ), Everett Hull invented a pickup that attached to the sound peg of his standup bass...in other words he amp'd the sound peg....and went on to co-found Ampeg. Paul Tutmarc was a guitar/ukulele/lap-steel player who invented built and sold the first electric bass guitars...Originally Posted by Alexej
It's hard to learn to play guitars and building them at the same time and then the experimenting with hardware... it is always a compromise between staying superficial or going into details...but I try
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