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Other Bass Brands / Re: Warwick goes The Wife / Gibson.
« on: October 25, 2017, 02:15:34 PM »Aren't those big chrome suckers single coils?
I believe they are, and quite bright sounding at that:
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I believe they are, and quite bright sounding at that:
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Warwick goes The Wife / Gibson.
« on: October 25, 2017, 11:30:19 AM »
I see they do an "EB-0" too....
Apparently those MEC humbuckers/singlecoils (??) are nothing like mudbuckers beyond the looks.
Apparently those MEC humbuckers/singlecoils (??) are nothing like mudbuckers beyond the looks.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Nina Simone bass?
« on: October 25, 2017, 04:45:12 AM »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.
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The Bass Zone / Re: An Unexpected Display of Technique
« on: October 25, 2017, 04:39:44 AM »I've been to his studio and ranch and played those basses!
Ever so slightly jealous over here! I follow him on Instagram and he seems to be a very nice down-to-earth dude.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Nina Simone bass?
« on: October 24, 2017, 12:33:53 PM »
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:
The one I've posted here is missing a knob and the bridge cover.
This is a more complete example:
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The Bass Zone / Re: An Unexpected Display of Technique
« on: October 24, 2017, 12:30:07 PM »
Scott Reeder plays lefty on basses string righty. He played Rickenbackers, and later Ibanez ATK basses during his stint in Kyuss. More recently he's moved over to Warwick basses. I understand he pretty much taught himself bass, out in the desert, and picked up a righty bass and flipped it over.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Max Webster
« on: October 20, 2017, 03:47:51 PM »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:
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Other Bass Brands / Re: De Gier Lowlander
« on: October 20, 2017, 01:27:14 PM »
That black Jack Casady bass I picked up is going to get a refinish at some point.... and I wanna put a Strat jack plate on it! 
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Other Bass Brands / Re: De Gier Lowlander
« on: October 20, 2017, 01:15:00 PM »
Heck of an amp setup there! Glad I'm not the only one that hacks Strat jack plates into basses! Everybody should do it. 
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Other Bass Brands / Re: De Gier Lowlander
« on: October 20, 2017, 04:42:34 AM »lol ... you did see the mess I made of my PC before I rebuilt her the first time, didn't you...?
I've seen a picture of it with a psychedelic Halfords refinish and a gold (
) mudbucker. Is this the same beast?
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Rare Alembic...?
« on: October 19, 2017, 11:52:35 AM »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.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Rare Alembic...?
« on: October 19, 2017, 05:50:02 AM »When I saw DP a few years ago and Roger had a fresh knee operation, the guy from The Temperance Movement (Nick Fyffe) depped for him and although Nick is a fine player (as you would expect from someone who replaced Stuart Zender within Jamiroquai), DP didn't sound the same that night.
I've seen Fyffe once with the Temperance Movement, and he rocked a violin bass for 90% of the set, swapping it out with a '70s P bass for a couple of tunes maximum. He's a grand player, but he wasn't driving the bus like the guys in Deep Purple do.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Holy Crap...! never knew one existed...?
« on: October 19, 2017, 05:47:30 AM »How about that.I thought he had an Eb3.
It is hard to say what he used, and when. The Zemaitis bass gets name checked in the credits for the 'Solid' album, and it appears on the cover of their 'Live at Leeds' album. Prior to that I've seen a couple of photos of Pete Cruickshank rocking a Fender. An EB-3 would fit his tone on 'Thank Christ for the Bomb'.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Uwe! Six string RD Artist bass
« on: October 18, 2017, 02:11:45 PM »Positioning of the sound hole obviously predetermined where the later mudbucker would go.
Gibson refer to it as the 'mud hole' in early literature.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: De Gier Lowlander
« on: October 18, 2017, 02:04:07 PM »Ok, so Alan likes his holes upfront, not down below, horses for courses.
Any hole is a goal.