Blog of Will

  The band’s album was recorded back in February and, for a myriad of reasons, the album launch might actually fall on the first anniversary of that recording date. In the meantime you can still listen to it by visiting our Bandcamp age here  or listening for free on all the usual streaming services. The Band is New Accelerator and the album is called Slow Life (Live at Glasshouse Studios). But why waste an opportunity to talk about the basses used on the album? When New Accelerator began I was using the Ibanez Gary Willis signature bass. This is a beautiful, five string fretless strung B to G. I loved that bass and played it on almost every project I was involved in. Whenever I played a fretted bass it was only for a short while, then I’d be back on the fretless again. Two things I could never find, that really suited me, were a Precision Bass or a five string. Then a year or so before lockdown, I found a Fender Precision (four string, fretted) and completely fell in love. It ha