Music
The bass line under everything else.
I have played bass since 2002 and crossed the 150-live-show mark somewhere along the way. Long before this site became a place for software experiments, `lesbass` was a musical identity: bands, rehearsals, live rooms, late-night arrangements, and the kind of friendships that survive years between songs.
- Playing since
- 2002
- Live shows
- 150+
- Peak year
- 2009
Live log
The years with an audience
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Live rooms, remote rooms, and the new room
I recently started playing with a band again, which makes this part of the site feel less like an archive and more like a live signal. The older material still matters: it is the map of the people, places, and songs that got me here.
Side A YouTube @lesbass Live videos collected across years of bands, stages, and lineups. Side B COVID covers Remote covers made with friends near and far during lockdown.Collection
Basses are memory devices
The collection has grown thick over the years, but the one that still anchors everything is my Yamaha BB3000A Candy Apple Red custom. It is the historic one for me, the Taiwan-made bass I found in Milan in 2004 while I was studying there and wandering through instrument shops. It was immediate. I went home, found a way to borrow the money, and went back for it.
It started original and changed with me: active EMG P/J pickups, custom choices, and the kind of wear that makes an instrument harder to describe than to keep. In the old archive I marked it as unsellable. That still feels accurate.
- Origin
- Taiwan-made
- Live shows
- 150+
- Favorite
- BB3000A Custom
- Finish
- Candy Apple Red