Music videos that feature 20/20 basses

[Basvarken]

Whahaa! Great new text under your avatar

[Grog]

The Godfather of Double Vision??!!

[uwe]

Only if I drink too much.

[Basvarken]

Another proof that they're ultra cool.


Hmmm okay it may not be a 20/20. Or even Steinberger.
But still.
Wow!

[tore00]

Hey guys have you seen this? It was not my cup of coffee but the GAS grows in summertime

[uwe]

Pretty much how a 20/20 can sound. A child of the 80ies though he must have dialed ample mids into the amp as the sound is normally even more scooped.

At the beginning of the vid, what is he doing there with his thumb, making all these strange noises? Checking whether the pick-ups have full magnetic force? There should be laws against it.

But where there is shadow, there is also light: He obviously has a Kansas record too! 

[Pilgrim]

At the beginning of the vid, what is he doing there with his thumb, making all those strange noises? Checking whether the pick-ups have full magnetic force? There should be laws against it.

He's obviously following the path dictated by that icon, Leo Fender!

[uwe]

Leo Fender is to blame for a lot of things, but is he really responsible for slapping?! 

[Dave W]

Leo Fender is to blame for a lot of things, but is he really responsible for slapping?! 

No, but remember that he was allegedly mostly tone deaf, which would have made him an ideal audience for those slappers who slap, pop and whack atonally.

[Highlander]

I always thought a midwife was responsible for slapping...

Sonseed... not a 20/20 and not a Steinberg...? body-shot circa 1.25-1.30 - not sure I know this one - single pup - separate tuners on the tail... had to keep the sound off...

[Basvarken]

Hey guys have you seen this? It was not my cup of coffee but the GAS grows in summertime

His pick technique is horribly sloppy btw.

But the video does give you a good idea of how the 20/20 can sound

[uwe]

"His pick technique is horribly sloppy btw."

Yet miles above my slapping!    I'm a lousy shot with my thumb, my fingers get tangled up popping and - this seems to be the key flaw of my non-existing slapping technique - I'm just not quick enough withdrawing the thumb to make the tone ring, all my slapping sounds incredibly dead and thuddish.

I never got the hang of it and around 79 or so I even tried for a while (few weeks, I gave up when I noticed that other people only needed half a day to get it right or at least much better than I) - that was the time when Stanley Clarke's School Days became the yardstick of bass playing and I had a jazz rock bassist as a teacher who was always unhappy that I played with a pick. But I bear no grudge against Lothar, he couldn't convince me of the necessity of finger playing (didn't look elegant to me at all and the loss of treble was hampering if you had power issues with your rig like I had), he was puzzled when I asked him to "teach me slapping" ("Why, just do it?!"), I lost the sight reading after a while (was never really good at it), he complained that too many of my runs were blues scale pentatonic (he was right at the time too), but the circle of fifths and the harmony rules (which he really only taught me as an afterthought) stuck permanently and opened a whole new world for my playing.

[Basvarken]

Don't worry too much about it Uwe. You're a rocker. You're into Deep Purple end Judas Priest. You don't need slapping.

And neither do 95% of the bass players who snap into slapping once they're trying out or demonstrating a bass. In a band situation it makes the bass into an obnoxious attention grabber, most of the time.

[Pilgrim]

Leo Fender is to blame for a lot of things, but is he really responsible for slapping?! 

I was referring to using the thumb, which was an assumption Leo made about how bass would be played, leading to the installation of the tug bar on the G-side of P-basses.

I would hope he was a slap-free zone!   

[uwe]

Oh, you meant that type of thumb playing! 60ies style, now I get it.