I was listening to The Doobie Brothers and it’s that analog bass sound,..the sound that they had in his bass playing is just so funky and so cool and really good. Including the drums and everything! I think about bands like them and, like Fleetwood Mac, where you got this big thick bass tone. That just makes me so happy when I hear it. It moves you. And so that's the kind of thing when my students would ask, “What’s the difference between analog and digital?” I would tell them to go listen to music from the 70’s. Listen to the bass and the kick drum and tell me what you hear. There's just a warm thickness that you can't hear with digital. I never really put The Dobbie Brothers under the microscope. Listening to Tiran's playing, god,...it's just so fucking good. - Shawn Rohlf - singer songwriter, producer, teacher, and front man for the 7th Day Buskers in San Diego, CA.

B.C. Rich (1978 - 1980)