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04-06-2006, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Forest Hills, New York | | | Crosby Stills and Nash Bass
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Who plays bass on their early recordings?
I love that sound...
I'll take a guess and say its a P Bass with flats through a Fender Bass amp with 15"s ?? |
04-06-2006, 08:27 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Medina, Ohio | | | This should be in Bassists, but...
In addition to Steven Stills, Greg Reeves (Deja Vu) and Calvin Samuels (Four Way Street). P basses aplenty, methinks.
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04-06-2006, 10:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: From Aptos CA to Solon IA | | | Didn't George "Chocolate" Perry play for them? and what albums did he play on?
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Flathead basses, Wizzy 10, '98 Azola Bug Bass.
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04-06-2006, 11:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Chicago, IL | | Quote:
That's mostly Stephen Stills, one of my all time fave musicians.
And I believe it is indeed a vintage (well, maybe not so much at the time) P bass...
| That's always been my understanding. I think that the P-bass that Stills used was a 3-tone burst with a rosewood board and tort guard. |
04-07-2006, 12:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles | | | The P bass is owned by Stills. They used it on the first
CSN&Y record and have been using it on almost everything
since. Stills just gives it to whoever is playing bass in
the studio on that song or record. It hasn't been on
everything, but that early 60's P bass has been on most
of the CSN&Y and Stills recordings. |
04-07-2006, 02:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Geordie Delta, UK | | | George Perry played on the later stuff.
Also played with CSN in their various incarnations: Leland Sklar, Duck Dunn, Rick Danko... |
04-07-2006, 02:28 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by 57pbass Who plays bass on their early recordings? | Quote: |
Originally Posted by waterofftune George Perry played on the later stuff. | But that wasn't the question! 
Stills played organ, piano and all the lead guitar as well as bass - very under-rated musician!
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04-07-2006, 03:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Geordie Delta, UK | | Bruce, you're very odd. Quote: |
Didn't George "Chocolate" Perry play for them? and what albums did he play on?
| That was the question I answered. The original question has already been covered.  |
04-07-2006, 03:11 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | That wasn't the question either - it was really : "what albums did he play on?" and you haven't answered that either!!
You're a mine of "non-information"!! 
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04-07-2006, 03:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Geordie Delta, UK | | | For the love of God... settle down, Bruce. You're far too exciteable.
As far as I remember:
Mainly SS solo albums: Stills, Illegal Stills, Allies (CSN Live), Stills Live, Thoroughfare Gap and various CSN sessions which I can't remember off the top of my head.
A mine of non-information , Bruce. That's right.
Edited to add:
Oh, aye - he's on CSN and Long May You Run, too.
Edited again to add:
A couple of the above might be Kenny Pasarelli, rather than George Perry. My addled mind is stuffed to bursting with non-information.
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04-07-2006, 03:35 AM
|  | rythum rancher | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: on thin ice | | | As I understand it, Stills' bass is a 60' P named "Grandma". |
04-07-2006, 06:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Last House on the Block-Texas | | | Stills doesn't change those flatwounds often, but when he does I've heard he rubs bbq sauce into them to kind of pre-age them. Mmmmmmm ... tasty! |
04-07-2006, 08:22 AM
| | Even a blind man knows when the sun is shining. | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Pensacola, FL | | | In some Bass Player issue last year Stills was quoted on the "bbq sauce and cheeseburger grease" approach to deadening strings. He said he wanted to get more of a standup sound. That issue has the tab for Judy Blue Eyes - which was tracked by Stills back in the day.
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04-07-2006, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles | | | further clarification?
looks like some number of bassists cycled in and out of the CSNY scene through the mid-'80's: http://www.4waysite.com/articles/CSN83.htm | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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