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Hamer 8 string in action
amptech:
Nice switchmaster!
Highlander:
Saw them a few times on that tour and recently stumbled on the T shirt too... :mrgreen:
uwe:
Nick Lowe looks like a young John Kerry in that vid! And it goes to show that you don't really "hear" the double-octave characteristic of an 8 string bass (just like you don't "hear" it in almost all Cheap Trick songs) unless you dial in an extreme sound or play it with a lot of distortion/effects. To my ears, the best 8 string bass sound captured on a popular recording is still this one here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8
In fairness: Probably aided to a large part by the fact that with ELP there was no guitar to get in the way of that 8-string sound! You can hear that Lake essentially "strums" that Alembic like an acoustic guitar for percussive effect (which sounds nice).
Chris P.:
ELP: nice sound!
Maybe it's even more the case with octave strings than with bass in general: you don't hear it, but you miss it when it's not there? I guess an 8-string can fill up the sound of a three piece band quite nicely.
Pilgrim:
ELP was simply magnificent. It's spell binding to watch them.
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