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    STILL RAGING

    Nov 09, 2021 4 minutes
    Words Kevin Johnson, Joel McIver
    Photograph:
    Kevin Winter

    " Man, I can’t wait for people to see this bass,” said Tim Commerford when we spoke to him earlier this year. “It’s so beautiful. It does everything I need, and way more. I’ve played some beautiful basses in my time, but this one has to be one of the very best ones that I’ve ever played. Ernie Ball really did a spectacular job on it. We went back and forth on it until we got it perfectly right.”

    For the past two years, Ernie Ball Music Man has been steadily introducing signature instruments for heroes of the low end, including Vulfpeck’s Joe Dart,

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