The Last Bass Outpost

Andy Scott's hair is a supergroup in its own right.

Those are big single coils with a coil per pole peace. They are based on an old Framus design and I love those pickups.

Is that the chrome double bass pickup design that mounted right down at the end of the fretboard and was shaped to match? Any chance of a Bi-Sonic reissue from Warwick/Hagstrom?

Lying about diesel engines, invading The Netherlands, making David Hasselhoff big, the Audi A2, the Höfner control panel (both controls set to ON is both pickups OFF), Heino and the makers of the smallest, thinnest book ever (The Big Book Of German Humour).

Germans....

And those toilets that are designed so that you can inspect your stool in intense detail. Presumably all Germans carry around a small pocketbook and note down the key attributes of their morning dump. Perverts.

What is this?

Aren't those big chrome suckers single coils?

I believe they are, and quite bright sounding at that:

Look smaller in the picture than I would have expected. The player in the video must not be very big.

I was surprised by this as well. I suppose he could be a diminutive dude, plus he's playing bass in a very formal manner. He's not moving around, and he's wearing a suit, and I think the formalness makes the bass look bigger?

John Paul Jones has a similar ability to make a Jazz bass look either massive or relatively small, if you leaf through photos of Zeppelin from the '70s. Sometimes he's like Nina's bassist, whereby he's just the guy standing behind the bass and making the notes happen. Other times he's a bit more into it and the bass fits him more naturally.

I think the bass might be a Lafayette bass, like this one:



The one I've posted here is missing a knob and the bridge cover.

This is a more complete example:

Billy Sheehan actually did a stint IN Max Webster in the late '70s between Talas incarnations but I've never seen him mention it, so I'm guessing that maybe it didn't go well.

He retained this:

Heck of an amp setup there! Glad I'm not the only one that hacks Strat jack plates into basses! Everybody should do it. 

What a great description "but he wasn't driving the bus like the guys in Deep Purple do", that sums it up perfectly.

I don't mean it as a dig at Fyffe by any means, he's grown up with a wider bag of what it means to be a bassist, whereas Glover had Paul McCartney? The Temperance Movement have an Americana edge to their sound. Deep Purple mk2 had that stick-up-the-ass white European thing that kept them on top of the beat like a dog chasing a rabbit. In fairness ELP were even worse for this.