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Jeff Scott

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #90 on: November 30, 2016, 12:10:51 AM »
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6QMFGRh47A

Stanley Clark rocking a 4001, back when Return to Forever still had Bill Connors on guitar.A surprisingly heavy hard-rock tune from The Sweet.
That's a 4000 model.

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #91 on: November 30, 2016, 06:05:06 AM »
Good shout, Jeff! Funny thing is that a lot of Stanley's tone is in there, but it just doesn't seem to bite like the Alembics do.

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #92 on: November 30, 2016, 06:47:17 AM »
FWIW I think he sounds way better here than with his Alembics.
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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #93 on: November 30, 2016, 09:36:40 AM »
I wish he was higher in the mix, but it isn't a bad tone by any means. I gather that Rick Turner basically doorstepped Stanley after a gig and said 'great playing, bad tone' or words to that effect. I'm not the biggest fan of Stanley's tone, especially when he first got the Alembic basses. Way too twangy for my tastes, and it seems like he was fretting out a bit at faster speeds with a tell-tale 'quack' to the notes. I saw a rig rundown a few years back where he was using small tube guitar amps for the high end. To me that is what I'm not so fond of, as I don't think his tone mates together very well. There is rumbling low end and an blizzard of crunchy top end, and nothing much joining these two halves. There is recent footage of RTF playing Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy if you want to directly compare their sound then and now.

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« Reply #94 on: November 30, 2016, 07:48:17 PM »
...I gather that Rick Turner basically doorstepped Stanley after a gig and said 'great playing, bad tone' or words to that effect. I'm not the biggest fan of Stanley's tone, especially when he first got the Alembic basses
IIRC, Stanley was playing a Gibson EB-0 when Rick told him his tone sucked.  :mrgreen:

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #95 on: December 01, 2016, 07:01:57 AM »
IIRC, Stanley was playing a Gibson EB-0 when Rick told him his tone sucked.  :mrgreen:

It was actually a Gibson EB2, according to the bass book by tony bacon. Strange choice for that kind of music!
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« Reply #96 on: December 01, 2016, 06:19:59 PM »
It was actually a Gibson EB2, according to the bass book by tony bacon. Strange choice for that kind of music!
If he had only stuck with it, all those solo albums might have been listenable! And he'd hang out here with us :)
Okay, so it sucked twice as much (two pickups to provide the suck).  :mrgreen:

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #97 on: December 01, 2016, 09:02:42 PM »
Okay, so it sucked twice as much (two pickups to provide the suck).  :mrgreen:

The EB-2 only has one pickup (the rarer EB-2D has two).

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #98 on: December 02, 2016, 07:44:09 AM »
It was actually a Gibson EB2, according to the bass book by tony bacon. Strange choice for that kind of music!
Maybe for upright people, a bass with undefined tone and f-holes makes the move easier. Steve Swallow also had an EB2 period when he switched from upright to bass guitar. He once said in an old interview that it had to be a semi-acoustic bass, he couldn't bring himself to play a solidbody, he had to feel the bass vibrate against his chest like an upright.
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« Reply #99 on: December 04, 2016, 07:09:58 PM »
The EB-2 only has one pickup (the rarer EB-2D has two).
Right you are, for some reason I read that as EB-3.  :rolleyes:

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« Reply #100 on: December 04, 2016, 07:11:35 PM »
Maybe for upright people, a bass with undefined tone and f-holes makes the move easier. Steve Swallow also had an EB2 period when he switched from upright to bass guitar. He once said in an old interview that it had to be a semi-acoustic bass, he couldn't bring himself to play a solidbody, he had to feel the bass vibrate against his chest like an upright.
So, what's the best bass for someone first switching from upright to electric?  :mrgreen:

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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #101 on: December 05, 2016, 12:06:27 AM »
Metal, you mean?
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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #102 on: December 05, 2016, 03:48:02 PM »
Curiously, from upright, I went to an EB2 copy...
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Re: Music videos that feature Ric's
« Reply #103 on: December 29, 2016, 03:21:11 AM »
Cosmic Rough Riders - an early 4004C, as if I needed another reason to like them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaweETkgg4
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« Reply #104 on: January 31, 2017, 05:42:16 PM »
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