From the Editor Let’s Take it from the Top. Bass Family,
Jisi, Bradman, D’Auria, and Friedland in Los Angeles, 2011
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BASS MAGAZINE ; ISSUE 1 ; bassmagazine.com
Well, here we are, the debut issue of Bass Magazine. How did we get here? It’s a long story with lots of plot twists, but we’ll grab a beer sometime and I’ll fill you in then. In short, when the world’s #1 magazine for bass players was sold to a European publisher last year, it turned into a completely different beast — and the folks behind its 30 years of success wondered how to keep the spirit of “digging deeper” alive. Here is the result, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring you this issue, and more so, this magazine. Not one bit of this would’ve been possible without the amazing group of writers and editors that we have on our roster. Seeing the names Chris Jisi, Elton Bradman, Jim
