Bass Player

ERNIE BALL Music Man DarkRay

ERNIE BALL www.music-man.com $2499

In the opening scene of the iconic 1985 film Back To The Future, a young Marty McFly—played by Michael J. Fox, like you didn’t know that already—stands in front of a giant amplifier, strums a power chord, and is literally blown off his feet by the walloping sonic force. This scene springs to mind when we first plug in the new Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay four-string bass.

One of 2021’s most talked-about releases, the DarkRay

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Bass Player

Bass Player2 min read
I Was There!
When Duff McKagan of Guns N’Roses wrote a certain bass solo... Michael ‘Duff’ McKagan, the punk rocker from Seattle who moved to Hollywood in the mid-Eighties, joined Guns N’Roses and became a star, is best known in bass world for a slinky four-bar s
Bass Player2 min read
IN THE Groove MILES DAVIS E.S.P. (COLUMBIA, 1965)
E.S.P. is the debut LP from what is considered to be Miles Davis’ second great quintet, and it is notable for its broad range of composition by all its members, aside from drummer Tony Williams. The album teeters on the precipice of the avant-garde,
Bass Player3 min read
The Sound Of Metal
Metal bassists may not be as flashy as their six- or seven-string counterparts, but there are countless bassists out there elevating the act of plucking four to eight strings to an art form. One of these is Rickard Persson of Swedish tech-death heads

Related Books & Audiobooks