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05-24-2010, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Timisoara, Romania | |  McBride plays a plywood?
I just came across this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJXxv...eature=related
Isn't this a plywood bass? Also, the fingerboard is damn shiny, so it might not be ebony, it might be painted hardwood, or?
Anyway, Christian makes it sound great!
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05-24-2010, 12:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Salt Lake City, UT | | | That's a nice video. I'd like to hear the entire recording of Sonic Tonic! |
05-24-2010, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | I doubt that's his bass, most likely belongs to whatever student ensemble he's on stage with.
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05-24-2010, 02:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kenosha Wi. | | | It's just not the tools. It's mostly the craftsman. Looks like a whatever was handy bass to me, but it's not one of his. |
05-24-2010, 03:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa | | | Last I knew, he was playing a 7/8 Juzek. |
05-24-2010, 07:02 PM
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Ok, your thread lead me to this. Probably everyone's seen it but me, but I'm grinning from ear to ear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzBJo...eature=related
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05-25-2010, 10:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Timisoara, Romania | | Ok, but is IT a plywood? That's what I wanna know 
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05-25-2010, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | I'd say YUP, look at the scroll, one of the volutes has been knocked cleanly off, that's generally a sign of a a glued on application, which pretty much screams LAMINATE....
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05-25-2010, 03:07 PM
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A professional superhero bassist playing on a PLYWOOD bass??!!? My world is shattered. I thought he wouldn't be caught dead.  |
05-25-2010, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Kansas City area | | | I don't much care for the sound of the thing but he plays some great stuff on it, as he always does.
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05-26-2010, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Waynesburg, Pa | | | it looks just like my engelhart. |
05-26-2010, 12:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | His gear page is here, if you're interested in seeing the basses that he owns: http://www.christianmcbride.com/gear.html
It doesn't appear to be his. It looks like his are old and carved.
But honestly, there's nothing wrong with plywood. I've known great players that had a ply bass to tour with a carved bass for in town. I've heard great players take a student bass and coax sounds out of it that I could only dream of on the finest of instruments.
The first time I saw Christian play, I walked out after the show and said "I'll never misuse the term virtuoso again." He could clearly play whatever he could think with ease and joy. And he could think some pretty hip things!
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05-26-2010, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by rusag2  | Well, I've never seen it; best thing that has happened all week for me.
Thank you!!
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05-27-2010, 08:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbia, SC | | Correct me if I'm wrong,but this is the bass I always see him with. From that camera angle, you can see his string height which is always something I wonder about regarding big name professionals. Sounds great! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGFJi...eature=related
(As if you didn't already know from his records) McBride's been transcribing some Mingus.
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05-27-2010, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruhman .....wouldn't it occur to anyone that this just might be a rental or borrowed bass? | No.
Like all Jazz bassists, Christian gets what he wants lickitty-split....beautiful women throw themselves at his feet upon his arrival at the airport. (some of them nekkid) The venue Gophers fight over who gets to handle his $1,000,000.00 Gasparo DaSalo bass that has traveled comfortably in it's first class seat. Cuban cigars are offered by the 100's and his wine is tasted before he drinks to a toast offered to him by the Mayor.
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05-27-2010, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by clink I don't much care for the sound of the thing but he plays some great stuff on it, as he always does. | +1
the playing is amazing
the sound is boo boo
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05-27-2010, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by clink I don't much care for the sound of the thing but he plays some great stuff on it, as he always does. | +1
the playing is amazing
the sound is boo boo
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05-27-2010, 10:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | It's deja vu all over again.
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05-27-2010, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton No.
Like all Jazz bassists, Christian gets what he wants lickitty-split....beautiful women throw themselves at his feet upon his arrival at the airport. (some of them nekkid) The venue Gophers fight over who gets to handle his $1,000,000.00 Gasparo DaSalo bass that has traveled comfortably in it's first class seat. Cuban cigars are offered by the 100's and his wine is tasted before he drinks to a toast offered to him by the Mayor. | I knew it! I can't wait tell my wife, she is going to be very excited about the "career" I've chosen. Except the hot/nekkid women part. I'm gonna leave that out.
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