Billy Sheehan bass solo

uwe · February 07, 2011, 03:34:16 PM

Quote from: Barklessdog on February 05, 2011, 02:41:02 PM
I caught him live a couple years back & there is pretty much nothing he can't do. I guess he does not slap though.When he did hid solos, he did them accompanied by drums, which to me, was much more song like & structured. Still he's one of the greatest bass players ever like him or not. Really unique tone he has.

How gullible you are, John:

I still think he could have done wonders for post-JAE The Who.

godofthunder · February 08, 2011, 07:59:05 AM

Uwe I think you are right Billy would have been a good fit for The Who. Thanks for posting that video my image of Billy has been locked in the '70s/'80s !

lowend1 · February 08, 2011, 08:55:13 AM

Quote from: godofthunder on February 08, 2011, 07:59:05 AM
Uwe I think you are right Billy would have been a good fit for The Who. Thanks for posting that video my image of Billy has been locked in the '70s/'80s !

He was a slam dunk for The Who - but Daltrey and Townshend both felt comfortable with Pino since they had both worked with him in the past. Besides, Pete apparently felt that having somebody up there that might really whiz around wouldn't have been respectful given the short time frame (at that point) since John's passing.

Barklessdog · February 10, 2011, 10:10:16 AM

Quote from: uwe on February 07, 2011, 03:34:16 PM
How gullible you are, John:

I still think he could have done wonders for post-JAE The Who.

Niacin was a great idea, an update of Brian Auger's Oblivion Express (a little ELP thrown in )

Do you ever use his bass?

uwe · February 12, 2011, 05:47:47 AM

Yes! It's one of my favorite Non-Gibbies.

godofthunder · February 12, 2011, 07:24:55 AM

One of these days I am going to pick up a a Attitude (some say I have one already) One of my favorite non Gibson basses is a tribute I built to Billy's "wife" I chose to do the young "wife" as I remember the bass from the Penny Arcade days. I didn't have a mudbcker when I built it so the Model one will have to do till I get around to finding one. The body on my bass is alder while I believe "the wife" is ash, I like alder better so there you go. The bass sounds amazingly like Billy's. I did not wire it with two inputs I split my signal through a Whirlwind Selector A B box as apposed to Billy splitting his signal at the pickups. Anyone got a mudbucker for sale ?

lowend1 · February 12, 2011, 08:54:29 AM

Did you do the routing for the pickup on your living room floor? Without that, it will never be a "real" tribute.

I'd just leave the Model One in there if it does the job soundwise.

godofthunder · February 12, 2011, 09:04:11 AM

I believe he did the routing on his moms kitchen table I think with a Dremel, though maybe he only used the Dremel for the scalloped fingerboard which came later. Me I used a router!

lowend1 · February 12, 2011, 02:40:40 PM

Quote from: godofthunder on February 12, 2011, 09:04:11 AM
I believe he did the routing on his moms kitchen table I think with a Dremel, though maybe he only used the Dremel for the scalloped fingerboard which came later. Me I used a router!

Nah. Living room job:

http://www.billysheehan.com/gear/instruments_34.html

...and from another interview:
"It has dual output and an original Gibson EB-0 pickup from around '72. I chiseled a hole in the body and put the pickup in it. I do know a little about woodworking, but you'd never know it by looking at that bass! And I didn't know how to wire it, but I got the pickup in and wired each pickup separately into two outputs because I didn't know how to wire both pickups to one."

hieronymous · February 12, 2011, 02:45:03 PM

Cool link! Thinking back, he must have been a big part of my love of the Telecaster Bass headstock, though I wasn't listening to him anymore when I got mine. But mine has the D-tuner too!

Hornisse · February 12, 2011, 06:22:28 PM

I think I read somewhere that he liked the Tele headstock because of Tim Bogert.

godofthunder · February 12, 2011, 07:18:01 PM

Righty O Bogart was his inspiration for the tele neck.

godofthunder · February 12, 2011, 07:20:15 PM

Quote from: lowend1 on February 12, 2011, 02:40:40 PM
Nah. Living room job:
http://www.billysheehan.com/gear/instruments_34.html

...and from another interview:
"It has dual output and an original Gibson EB-0 pickup from around '72. I chiseled a hole in the body and put the pickup in it. I do know a little about woodworking, but you'd never know it by looking at that bass! And I didn't know how to wire it, but I got the pickup in and wired each pickup separately into two outputs because I didn't know how to wire both pickups to one."

I should have re read this before I posted!

gweimer · February 15, 2011, 01:23:15 PM

QuoteI chiseled a hole in the body and put the pickup in it.

A man after my own heart! I did the same thing with a mini-humbucker to my Vox Mark IV bass. I used chrome tape for the ring, and to cover up the damage I'd done.

uwe · February 15, 2011, 02:25:09 PM

Nothing is sacred here.

Billy Sheehan bass solo

Hornisse