[ALEX RODRIGUEZ PERFORMING]

ALEX RODRIGUEZ: My name is Alex Rodriguez. I'm playing with Mikey Peterson and the Trust.

I have a Danelectro, one of the Longhorn Reissues that came out I think 2002. I picked it up at 2002 right when they came out. It was cheap, which was good for me because it was 2002 and I didn't have a lot of money. It's light, it's got a short-scale neck so it plays really fast, and it sounds really good. For as cheap as it is and as light as it is, it has a really nice tone, it's got really nice reverberation. I really like how it plays.

I think I got it for $200 or maybe $250. They're great because they've got, like I said, a short scale neck, and it's a triple-octave neck so you can get down there and play that 24th fret that can't get to play on most basses. It's a big cutaway just like a Les Paul so you've got plenty of room to maneuver down there. I'm upgrading actually this weekend. I'm going to pick up one of the Lakland Daryl Jones models which are made in Chicago, and I just was tooling around with over at Sam Ash Buffalo Grove last week, and they just sound amazing. The neck is really fast. It's kind of like a jazz bass where the neck gets really small by the nut so it's a nice transition from the short-scale Dano bass because it's still fast, it's still a little narrower than a P-bass, and it just sounds amazing. They make really good basses over at Lakland.