The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: gearHed289 on August 01, 2024, 09:21:59 AM
Is that the tug bar I got for you?

Indeed it is! And the Thunderbucker Ranch pickup rings too. Thanks again for those.

Congrats Tom! Here's my white VP (see the attachement).

I had a lovely tobacco burst VP but I had an accident with it. Luckily I got the white one as a replacement and it plays and sounds as great.
I used it on my latest song and not to sound too big headed I think it's one of the best bass sounds I've ever managed to capture.


https://youtu.be/wJamizdR2ps?si=TI-yRTIRhevAS-ZJ

I bought one a while ago and like it a lot. The placement of those humbuckers is much to my liking as they are somewhere between the Jazz Bass and Rickenbacker positions. Very well built bass for the price.

View this post on Instagram

https://youtu.be/wJamizdR2ps?si=f2TDz0QRDL8bvbe1

This is my stuff I've been doing for maybe two years now. Stylistically quite all over the map I think but maybe you can call it prog? At least that instrumental falls easily under that category. There's also songs like this which I did with our very own Tom Heslin:

https://youtu.be/tgKJJg5ZJ-o?si=HtKEZ1B99GZ8Y8-s

And more ambient or trippy stuff where I usually play everything myself:
https://youtu.be/kKni_diOcvw?si=5iq0vI5CpfV2U5-G

Quote from: gearHed289 on July 18, 2024, 08:40:26 AM
Another cool track from our old friend Pekka. Some nice 12 string bass on this one.

Thanks Tom for your kind words! The "basic bass" is an Epiphone Vintage T-Bird. I also played my friends electric 12-string guitar which he also made (Tyyster Pelti) and my own Ibanez Blazer and Roadstar II guitars so there's plenty of strings on it.

Thanks! I forgot to mention that the clips were (naturally) recorded with DI only.

Who can name all the riffs? I wish they were mine but no.

I had this bass put together last spring and it turned out pretty good. A Mexican Fender '51 neck, Gotoh tuners, body from boobooguitars.co.uk, Retrovibe bridge, chinabuckers and a vol-tone- 3-way-PU -selector switch.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uq1snhzhsam540e/20190406_220945.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/19hwlp1j4qg16gr/20190406_221005.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j2pe6fs0zhjl7d5/20190913_103710.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uv8l9s3h0bymeue/20190913_104319.jpg?dl=0



Both pickups:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fguyitm8bwflnfd/fbird%20both.mp3?dl=0

neck:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo4mtscjex44tci/fbird%20neck.mp3?dl=0

bridge:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/roofp2yo6wy964s/Fbird%20bridge.mp3?dl=0

both w/ a pick:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgruqymowno8ix2/fbird%20both%20pick.mp3?dl=0

both with tone rolled off (0,22 uF cap):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ren6khzy776kpnq/fbird%20both%20tone%20off.mp3?dl=0

I've always liked mr. Rutherford's bass playing even though he rates it himself as "average". Some very inventive lines and a great pick sound.

I had never noticed the 8-string bass on this EP track (from "Spot The Pigeon") before. He used the Hagström briefly circa 1977 and 1978, the other tracks AFAIK are "One For The Vine", "Burning Rope" and the live version of "I Know What I Like".

The fast section is most likely played on a 4-string Shergold.

Quote from: amptech on March 06, 2019, 11:54:28 PM
They came in different shapes too?? No wonder why it never caught on

You are right, memory played a trick on me there..

Well, I can't blame you. I was dead sure it was Williams already on that "Dog Eat Dog" clip. And I bet many thought it was Mark Evans on "Let There Be Rock" promo but it's Cliff with a blonde Ripper:

Quote from: uwe on March 06, 2019, 04:06:40 PM
Not many rock bassists played electric bass with a bow!!!

One player that springs to mind is Louis Cennamo who used to bow his Jazz Bass on the first Renaissance album. Also played with Colosseum (briefly), Steamhammer and the mighty Armageddon whose lone '75 album is a personal fav of slightly psychedelic a bit bluesy hard rock.

Quote from: uwe on March 06, 2019, 04:01:17 PM
I don't believe it was loaned, Cliff still played it years later in their videos:

Take a good look, the bass on the videos is not the same. It's the one on the pic I posted where you comment on Cliff's good looks.

The "Back In Black" promo bass:

Quote from: Basvarken on March 06, 2019, 10:55:46 AM
Williams joined AC/DC in 1977.

The pics I posted are from Hempstead USA, August 1978. Maybe Cliff or AC/DC got the bass from Leon?
He also used a P-bass during the same show.

http://www.highwaytoacdc.com/index.php?articleid=1109

Quote from: amptech on March 05, 2019, 11:50:25 PM
Well, Mark Evans used one too - so it might have been something bought as a stage backup instrument or something?
I remember reading somewhere that they only travelled with one spare guitar (telecaster) and one spare bass in the early days.

It can be seen in the 'dog eat dog' promo vid from let there be rock.

It's a reverse.


Here's the video, most likely the same bass but Cliff already in the lineup. This was from some TV show, probably from 1978.
EDIT: It's Mark Evans on the video too, not Cliff. I must have confused it with an old "Let There Be Rock" promo (the church thing) where Cliff is playing a Ripper, or miming with it.

Quote from: Highlander on January 21, 2019, 03:38:20 PM
If I recall correctly, the only change from original 60's 'Bird positioning is putting the bridge in the right place... that is how my PC was originally built...

Thanks!

Quote from: uwe on March 05, 2019, 05:20:02 PM
Leon Wilkeson's Birds weren't Birds? I knew he had JAE Fenderbirds, but thought the other stuff was legit.

No-one has confirmed it isn't a real Gibson. Anyway, here's another non-rev Cliff used in the "Back In Black" promos: