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What bass are you playing?
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:01 am
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:01 am
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ZZ Top bassist plays 17-string bass in concert
Sorry but I'm pic posting challenged.
Should pair him with Rick Nielsen when he plays his 5 neck guitar.......add in Tommy Lee and his rotating drum kit and would be entertaining as hell
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Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:54 pm to Wtodd
Tragic. Playing zz top tunes you better be playing a P Bass (or at least a 4 string christ!)
Although I kind of feel that way about all genres?
Although I kind of feel that way about all genres?
This post was edited on 7/28/23 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 7/28/23 at 9:03 pm to Wtodd
Here's my baby. 2006? American P bass. Will gig it to the grave.
ETA: apparently I'm dumb and can't post a pic. Here's a vid of me playing it with one of B.R.'s best Wish I Was in Walker
ETA: apparently I'm dumb and can't post a pic. Here's a vid of me playing it with one of B.R.'s best Wish I Was in Walker
This post was edited on 7/28/23 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 7/29/23 at 2:01 am to Wtodd
This is silly. You only need two strings to play most ZZ Top songs.
I miss Dusty.
Me, two Jazzes and a P bass.
I miss Dusty.
Me, two Jazzes and a P bass.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 5:46 am to Wtodd
you only need 4 strings. anything more and you're just overcompensating for something.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 7:15 am to Wtodd
4 string Alembic and a 5 string Lakland…I’ve got a few others laying around but those are the two I play. I’ve had both for many years. And yes, that type bass for playing ZZ Top songs is beyond ridiculous.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 10:27 am to SpyBoy
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Although I kind of feel that way about all genres?
Sometimes you want that phat low B strang in R&B and gospel.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 6:21 pm to shutterspeed
LWD hates that yellow multi-string bass but the fans love it, so now he kinda has to wear it for at least one song. He opened the show in Houston last night with it and put it aside after that first song.
Here we are on his bus after the show. I brought him and BFG some party favors.
Here we are on his bus after the show. I brought him and BFG some party favors.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 6:53 pm to TheFretShack
Killer!!
Posted on 7/31/23 at 8:16 pm to Wtodd
Currently a sterling by music man stingray while I get back in the groove after at 20 year hiatus. My next bass is hopefully a fender aerodyne.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 9:57 pm to Wtodd
Carl Thompson… I wish.
This post was edited on 7/31/23 at 10:00 pm
Posted on 8/1/23 at 2:01 am to Wtodd
Seems like the place for this:
LINK ]Guitar World Interview w/Carol Kaye
LINK ]Guitar World Interview w/Carol Kaye
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If plucking a ripe plum from a tree had a sound, it would resemble Carol Kaye’s signature tone – a tone that made her a ‘first-call’ bassist in the highly competitive studio session world. It wasn’t just that, though.
Kaye is arguably the first bassist to exploit the instrument in a truly melodic fashion, a nod perhaps to her
early days as a jazz guitar prodigy. Her ability to invent memorable and influential bass and guitar parts on the spot in a high-pressure situation took her to – and kept her at – the very top of the studio scene and onto more than 10,000 recordings.
quote:
"I was in my sixth year as a studio guitarist when, one day in 1963, the bass player didn’t show up at a session. The producer asked me if I could play bass and I found it was a lot more fun to play and created good, interesting lines, [rather than] playing all those rinky-dink silly parts on guitar that we all had to dumb-down for on those rock and pop records
I found that my Fender Precision strung with flat-wounds and played with a pick created the sound all the producers wanted. I stuck a piece of foam on the bridge to stop those horrible overtones, which also produced a slightly muted effect that became really popular for hit records.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 2:14 am to Kafka
quote:
quote:
If plucking a ripe plum from a tree had a sound, it would resemble Carol Kaye’s signature tone – a tone that made her a ‘first-call’ bassist in the highly competitive studio session world. It wasn’t just that, though.
Kaye is arguably the first bassist to exploit the instrument in a truly melodic fashion, a nod perhaps to her
early days as a jazz guitar prodigy. Her ability to invent memorable and influential bass and guitar parts on the spot in a high-pressure situation took her to – and kept her at – the very top of the studio scene and onto more than 10,000 recordings.
quote:
"I was in my sixth year as a studio guitarist when, one day in 1963, the bass player didn’t show up at a session. The producer asked me if I could play bass and I found it was a lot more fun to play and created good, interesting lines, [rather than] playing all those rinky-dink silly parts on guitar that we all had to dumb-down for on those rock and pop records
I found that my Fender Precision strung with flat-wounds and played with a pick created the sound all the producers wanted. I stuck a piece of foam on the bridge to stop those horrible overtones, which also produced a slightly muted effect that became really popular for hit records.
She was also a considerate contractor, and always wore her birth control glasses.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 2:44 am to auggie
Carol was great and wrote great lines. I personally hate that muted tone of the 60’s though.
Funny thing she once told. She didn’t know about changing strings. When her Pbass would get really dead sounding, which must have been awful with that already muted tone, she would just take it to the music shop and trade it in for a new Pbass.
Funny thing she once told. She didn’t know about changing strings. When her Pbass would get really dead sounding, which must have been awful with that already muted tone, she would just take it to the music shop and trade it in for a new Pbass.
This post was edited on 8/1/23 at 2:47 am
Posted on 8/1/23 at 2:59 am to wareaglepete
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she would just take it to the music shop and trade it in for a new Pbass.
I probably know some of her relatives.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 6:45 am to wareaglepete
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When her Pbass would get really dead sounding, which must have been awful with that already muted tone, she would just take it to the music shop and trade it in for a new Pbass.
james jamerson never changed his strings ever and has the most iconic bass tone ever.
i'm going on 4 years with my strings (flatwounds)
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:28 am to monsterballads
Jamerson was a great. His lines were amazing. His tone? We’ll just have to disagree on that. And I’m not saying that it’s bad, many love it. I just hate a dead muted bass tone.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 1:33 pm to wareaglepete
listen to the bass tracks isolated. you'll get a different perspective.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 1:48 pm to monsterballads
Flats are great for fingertip comfort, for reducing finger noise when recording, and/or for calming down a really BRIGHT bass. But in regard to fresh versus old flatwound strings, I have yet to hear any significant difference, at least nothing an amp's treble knob couldn't fix in five seconds. They ALL sound relatively dead and lifeless to me. So I say yeah, play 'em until they break.
Posted on 8/4/23 at 3:45 pm to monsterballads
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listen to the bass tracks isolated
Got a little grit from the studio pre and compressor, but still a flatter tone than I like. It most definitely works for the music and the ines are great. Just not my thing. Definitely not a statement on Jamerson as a bassist. He’s Mt Rushmore level.
This post was edited on 8/4/23 at 3:46 pm
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