Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[Basvarken]

Dutch band The Analogues specialize in live renditions of The Beatles studio albums. They painstakingly re-create the sounds of the studio versions.

But now they've recorded an album with original compositions. Of course the Beatles vibe is omnipresent.
Here's the first single off the album, featuring a Gibson EB-3 in the video:

[uwe]

Simpelweg prachtig!

[Dave W]

[ilan]

But what you HEAR is Cornick on a Fender Jazz with flats.

[Dave W]

But what you HEAR is Cornick on a Fender Jazz with flats.

Interesting. I'm guessing this has been discussed before.

[ilan]

Interesting. I'm guessing this has been discussed before.

I think, once or twice.

[morrow]

I liked the first three Tull LPs , and always thought Cornick was one hell of a bass player . They lost me at Aqualung .

[uwe]

You can actually hear it, the increased tension of the strings and Cornick does no bendings which is unusual for him.

[uwe]

I liked the first three Tull LPs , and always thought Cornick was one hell of a bass player . They lost me at Aqualung .

Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond played bass well enough on Tull albums (he was no Glenn Cornick though), but I've gathered from various sources that all his bass lines stemmed from others, either Martin Barre (the guitarist) or John Evans (the keyboarder), sometimes also Ian Anderson. Everyone loved Jeffrey (Anderson talked him into joining the band), he was flamboyant on stage (that matching zebra bass to his zebra stage clothes gave his visual artist eye away),



but he had zero ego to contribute musically, painting was his great love and he has returned to it, after leaving Tull at his own accord in 1975 (with his successor John Glascock being then the first Tull bassist since Cornick to write his own lines).





Given the intricacy of Tull's arrangements, memorizing the bass lines from other people is no mean feat! Even on official Tull sites it says:

After leaving Grammar School, he opted to study painting rather than continue with music, but he was convinced to join Jethro Tull in January 1971. During the time of Tull’s dramatic stage costumes, Jeffrey started wearing a black and white striped suit and played a matching bass guitar, and this became his trademark and a feature of Tull’s Thick as a Brick stage performance. Hammond burned the suit in December 1975 on his departure from the band.

He then left the band to continue his career in art. According to Ian Anderson’s sleevenotes for the 2002 reissue of Tull’s Minstrel in the Gallery, Hammond “returned to his first love, painting, and put down his bass guitar, never to play again.”

Hammond’s replacement as bass player was John Glascock, a professional musician. Hammond had required considerable practice and rehearsal to play Jethro Tull’s music.

[morrow]

It was Cornick’s minor walks that got me . He had a gift for creating melodic minor walks .

[uwe]

And when Tull were a still a blues band - with some mustached guitarist in a fringed leather jacket from Birmingham with a few digits on his fretting hand missing whose name escapes me ... I never knew it was Cornick who played harmonica on that track (or perhaps he didn't, the performance is mimed, only Anderson sings live and might have played the harp in the studio). Although he wasn't yet in the band, the "Jeffrey" in the song is actually already Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond.



I too have a penchant for the early, bluesy Tull, later versions of Tull would sound angular and sometimes very contrived to me, those clever-clever arrangements became self-serving, form over substance, not the greatest fan of Ian Anderson's very mannered vocal style either. My two favorite albums are a strange mix: The still very organic debut and the glammy-decadent-dystopian War Child. Neither the Aqualung nor the Thick As A Brick album, which seem to be the eternal favorites of the Tull congregation, did much for me.

[doombass]

Don't know if this has been up before? EB-1:

[uwe]

Classic line-up.

[uwe]

[Alanko]

Rare Bird with their hit Sympathy:



Singer and bassist Steve Gould is playing an early EB0 refinished in a fun pink colour. (Uwe's helpful explanatory edit:
Don't squint your eyes. Alan, your archetypical colorblind male limited to
recognizing only your most basic primary colors even under optimal
lighting conditions, refers to the pastel lilac the bass is painted in.)

Note the extra pickup and unsympathetic additional controls.

Steve Gould was born in 1950, so is 20 in this video. Which I find hard to believe.