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Other Bass Brands / Re: Danelectro Longhorn
« on: January 15, 2008, 02:27:01 PM »I had almost forgotten about that. He used it on "My Generation," then something happened and he had to record the song using something else, but said the Danelectro sounded better. I'm not very informed on the Who, but I think this is correct.
I remember reading about this. Here's a quote from thewho.net:
“I played that solo on a Jazz bass with tapewound strings through a Marshall 50 watt and 4x12. Interestingly, the bass solos on the earlier takes were much more complicated, and played on a Danelectro which had a much more piano-like sound. It was a medium scale bass with a two-octave neck. The trouble was that the strings were so thin that I kept breaking them. We’d record during the day and, to finance the sessions, we were playing gigs nearly every night, and inevitably I’d break a string. None of the music shops had any replacement strings and no string manufacturers made replacement strings thin enough for Dano basses then, so I had to go down to Marshall’s and buy a new Dano for £60. I ended up with three new Danelectros, all with busted strings! In the end I busted my last string at the third attempt and there weren’t any more in the country. I thought, ‘f*** it’, and went and bought myself a Fender Jazz bass and a set of La Bella strings, and played the solo with that. But it was a different sound and a simplified, slowed-down version of the solos on previous takes.”
I've always wanted a longhorn. Probably won't be getting an original at this pont, though. A local GC had one for a mere $2200 USD, or thereabouts. I'd go for the Jerry Jones version before I'd spend that on an original...
