Good morning! Please allow me to introduce myself…I’m Jason, a 50something musician in the hills of Western Massachusetts. I’ve been playing music most of my life. After some school band saxophone, I started playing bass at about 15 because, well, that was what my friends’ band needed. I picked up my first guitar about a year later, but was primarily a bass player into my mid 20s when I started playing mandolin and quickly found myself as a popular “guest” with a couple of bands, playing some pretty cool gigs. I went back to playing mostly bass in my 30s, bought and sold a LOT of basses, guitars, amps and other gear (I’m a definite GAS-oholic), had a bass custom made for me, did a lot of gigs with a folk/rock band and later a “fusion” group, recorded in some nice studios and…by 40 life took over and my “career” as an active musician waned. Increasingly I turned my focus to guitar and songwriting to feed my musical appetite. A few years back, my grandmother passed away and I convened two of my oldest friends (yes, the guys I played with when I was 15!) to play something at her funeral. The spark thusly rekindled, we “put the band back together”. The pandemic stalled our plans to start doing some small gigs, but my transformation to primarily a guitar player stuck.
I’ve got a number of instruments around the house but the main once’s are a Martin DM, and Ibanez AR325QA and my beloved custom 4 string bass. I have at long last purchased PRS (Hollowbody II SE Piezo) which I should have in April. A friend from another musician’s forum had recommended this place as a good place to talk about guitar and music, so after a lurk about, here I am.
So yeah…hi!
