{"id":210,"date":"2018-06-01T20:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjbworld.com\/cms\/?p=210"},"modified":"2018-10-04T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T21:00:34","slug":"bakithi-kumalo-chooses-phil-jones-bass-for-homeward-bound-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/bakithi-kumalo-chooses-phil-jones-bass-for-homeward-bound-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakithi Kumalo Chooses Phil Jones Bass For Homeward Bound Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-211 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bakithi-Kumalo-Chooses-Phil-Jones-Bass-For-Homeward-Bound-Tour.jpg\" alt=\"Bakithi Kumalo and his Phil Jones Bass Amp Rig\" width=\"353\" height=\"212\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bakithi-Kumalo-Chooses-Phil-Jones-Bass-For-Homeward-Bound-Tour.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bakithi-Kumalo-Chooses-Phil-Jones-Bass-For-Homeward-Bound-Tour-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bakithi-Kumalo-Chooses-Phil-Jones-Bass-For-Homeward-Bound-Tour-768x461.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 353px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 353\/212;\" \/>Legendary bassist Bakithi Kumalo has selected a Phil Jones Bass touring rig for the Paul Simon\u2019s Homeward Bound Tour, also being billed as his farewell tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bakithi Kumalo\u00a0has been touring with Simon since the multi Grammy Award winning album, Graceland, which included his prodigious bass solo break in the song \u201cCall Me Al\u201d. Kumalo is often credited for creating a new style of bass playing on the album.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kumalo has selected the PJB D-1000 amp and C-9 speaker enclosures as his stage rig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He prefers the D-1000 because it combines high power (1000 watts) with PJB\u2019s signature natural tone in a lightweight (5.3 lbs) box. The C9 cabinets handle a massive 900 watts each and are comprised of nine 5\u201d PJB Piranha Chrome Dome speakers.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Established in 2002, PJB and AIRPULSE Guitar Amps are divisions of Phil Jones American Acoustic Development<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PJB is dedicated to using the latest technology in the design of compact bass amps and loudspeakers that achieve highest in fidelity and volume. Phil Jones owns several patents for loudspeaker technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>More info:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bkumalobass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bkumalobass.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary bassist Bakithi Kumalo has selected a Phil Jones Bass touring rig for the Paul Simon\u2019s Homeward Bound Tour, also being billed as his farewell tour. Bakithi Kumalo\u00a0has been touring with Simon since the multi Grammy Award winning album, Graceland, which included his prodigious bass solo break in the song \u201cCall Me Al\u201d. Kumalo is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjbworld.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}