IT WAS 30 YEARS AGO TODAY...
WHEN THE PREMIER ISSUE OF BASS PLAYER HIT THE SHELVES IN 1990, THE MUSICAL WORLD WAS ON THE CUSP OF HUGE CHANGES...
CDs had replaced vinyl as the leading medium by which people bought their music—who could have predicted 30 years later that this would reverse itself? The megastars of the day were traversing the globe on 18-month world tours off the back of huge-selling albums, and the bass world was still coming to terms with the untimely death of Jaco Pastorius, only two years earlier. The 1980s had seen immense innovation and technological developments in the worlds of bass guitar design, amplification, and effects. So what
