This is my track from Resonance, the Lakland Owner's Group compilation CD. There are 16 other cool tracks on the disc, so definitely check it out!

This was all recorded with my Skyline Jerry Scheff model. I used the Fishman Fission Powerchord Bass pedal for the lead stuff, and various effects. Hope you like!

Scheff Salad

Found some live recordings from around 2001 in Tucson with the ultra fun Friends Of Shooby Taylor outfit. Brought together by our common love of the great maestro, we formed a quartet in honor of his legacy. Matt Mitchell on guitar, Jeremy Patfield on sax and keyboards, Aaron Bonsall on drums, and myself on bass. This band - as out as it was - actually did a fair amount of gigs, including "headlining" at Plush (Tucson)on a Saturday night right when they first opened. If you've never heard a crowd of drunk sorority girls go crazy at the mention of an upcoming Joe Henderson composition, you haven't lived. These guys were so much fun to play with, maybe we need to book a reunion tour.

Little Melonae

A little snip of a sound demo I did with the Warwick Buzzard bass, from the way-back days of Guitar World's Bass Guitar Magazine. I don't remember the specifics, but I'm pretty sure I used a Line 6 Bass PodXt Pro for the amp model.

Warwick Buzzard Bass Clip

This is a snip I recorded with the Zon Sonus RTK5, the Robert Trujillo model. Played it through the Line 6 Bass PodXt Pro, probably with the SVT setting. This clip has resurfaced recently as the intro for my Grizzly Bass video on BassWhispererTV.

Zon Sonus RTK5

This was a sound demo I did years ago of the MXR Blowtorch pedal for Bass Guitar mag. Great sounding pedal, cool riff. Always thought one day I'd start a stoner-doom band and build on this riff!

MXR Blowtorch

Back at Bass Guitar Mag, I edited a lot of the columns by the famous guys and recorded the examples for the website. This is from a Paul Romanko column April, '07. I forgot what the topic was... but it's a cool riff... one of his I guess. I don't remember what I used to record this, probably my '74 Jazz and the Line 6 Pod Pro.

BG0407 Romanko Fig 1

This was a sound clip of the Lakland Hollowbody with Dark Star pickups. I used the Line 6 with a vintage Fender Bassman model, and was going for that classic Jack Casady tone. I obviously stole the premise of this riff! I call it "Crown Of Creatin"

Lakland Hollowbody w/ Dark Star Pickups

From Bass Guitar June '06. This riff was from a column by Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle fame. He was talking about odd time signatures - extra points if you can guess! This was recorded with my '88 MIJ Fender P bass,(actually, it's my wife's bass) with what were back then 2 year old LaBella rounds. They're STILL on that bass! This is also the Line 6 Ampeg model... sounds freaking great IMO.

Trevor Dunn riff

Just a little groove I came up with on the '73 Ripper fretless. I'm using a leather pick made from an old belt, it gets a cool tone - kind of like fingers but with a pointy attack. 

Leatherman

Here's a short snippet of what happened to my solo post-POG! I'm using my MusicMan Sterling 5H fretless with the POGII set for one and two octaves higher. There's some delay courtesy of MXR's Carbon Copy as well. Bryan Austin is on drums, and Matt Smith—while you can't hear him, is also there playing guitar throughout most of the full performance. This is an excerpt from what will hopefully be a full live album of the band Chop Shop, recorded at our weekly Sunday afternoon gig at Strange Brew Coffee in beautiful South Austin, TX.

Ed Friedland

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