Bassist extraordinaire BILLY SHEEHAN (TALAS, MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH, STEVE VAI) has issued the following update, his first of 2007:

"I just finished the BX3 tour - three bass players; myself, Jeff Berlin and Stu Hamm. We had a blast and played all across the USA. I hope we can do it again soon.

I'm in Italy right now, writing songs for my next CD (among other things) which I will record when I return. 2006 was an amazing year - I opened for the Stones in Japan with Richie Kotzen, played with Steve a lot, did a tour in Europe with Tony MacAlpine and Virgil Donati called The Devil's Slingshot (going again in October of this year), did a bunch of Niacin shows - NYC, LA, Mexico, Japan and more, the Amazing Journey - a tribute to The Who with Mike Portnoy, Paul Gilbert and Gary Cherone (we had an incredible time!), the first BX3 tour in USA and Asia (Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan), and much much more.

I have so many people to thank - mostly everyone who came out to a show. Live music is the most important thing to me, and I'm very thankful so many people came to hear me play in any configuration. I still spend an immense amount of time fine tuning my playing. learning more new stuff, and figuring things out on bass. The adventure never ends!

If I'm appearing anywhere for anything - be it a show, clinic, seminar, jam or just to hang - I'll post any info about it here and on my website. Come on out if you can. OK - back to work for me!

I'll do my best to answer as much email as possible. A reminder: emailing me at MySpace is unreliable at best. Go to www.billysheehan.com and click "email me". I get it and I read it personally.

Take care!

Yours,

Billy"