Nothing Is Easy Bass Cover

Happy Easter to everyone.

Consider this song as a companion piece to yesterday’s upload. It is “Nothing Is Easy” which is off of Jethro Tull’s second album, Stand Up, which came out in 1969 and featured Glenn Cornick on bass.

This song was mastered very low so, to record it, I had to boost the volume of the music by bringing up the volume of my computer speakers and lowering the volume of the bass which softened its tone a bit. Sometimes, that method works out better than others. Overall, I think it turned out alright.

The bass is a recent, Korean-made Guild Starfire. I’m not sure what possessed me to buy it. I think it had something to do with a combination of my overall satisfaction of my other Guild basses, my curiosity about a short-scale/semi-hollowbody bass, and the price being right. I don’t see myself spending too much time on it, but we’ll see. It happens to be Lynn’s favorite bass, which is a plus.

When I got this bass, Tull was the first music that came to mind to cover with it, although Bruce Thomas suggested some Jefferson Airplane or Grateful Dead…we’ll have to see about that. For some reason, I always imagined the older Tull material had been played on something like it. I was way off on that. It looks like Hammond played, mostly, a Jazz bass and Cornick, a Thunderbird, SG, or Jazz bass.