Playing alone was one of the things I startedĭoing after a year at BIT (Bass Institute of Technology). The teflon coated strings and this particular bass were not that great Instrument field, including the wonderful acoustic electric bass guitar. People at Kaman as they have made many contributions to the musical I certainly don't mean to slam the Ovation company and the If you could slap, then you were really a bass player). Joint, that made it difficult to thumb the bass and that was the rage of 1982. Play slap style very well (there was a bar between the pickups and extending to the neck Was a reincarnation of a short lived design that Ovation had When I got to the show they also had a bass for me to play. Not matter too much that I really wasn't that impressed with the product Prestigious gig (product demonstrator) for a well known company. My thoughtsĪbout this were that I was quite impressed with the idea of working this (National Association of Music Merchants) show. He gave me a few of the new string setsĪnd I agreed to show up at the Anaheim Convention Center that next month for the New bass strings that were coated in teflon.

Toward one of them working for his company, Ovation, to introduce some One Steve Fisher auditioning Bass players from the school with an eye I had just graduated the previous September and was working for 1981 I was approached by Becky Hicks at Musicians InstituteĪbout a possible gig that was developing in a counseling room down the TOBIAS GUITARS 1982-1992 Tobias Guitars, The California years 1983-1992

Michael tobias bass left handed