Tears for Fears Head Over Heels - Help me solve a dispute

BKBassDude · #1 03-20-2011, 10:04 PM

Ok great recording, beautiful bass line and tone.

But what bass is it?

A friend of mine is convinced it is a fretless.

I think it is a fretted, just favoring the bridge PU to get a bit of that burp.

Live performances I see being played on a fretted Warwick and some fretted headless thingy.

But my friend is still convinced. I told him I'd make a post on here and let an expert weigh in and he'd agree.

So, it's fretted right? (not leading in anyway

Smallmouth_Bass · #2 03-20-2011, 10:10 PM

I would say that the studio version is fretted.

gumtownbassman · #3 03-20-2011, 10:11 PM

When i saw them in the 80's he was using a Steinburger.

Stingray5 · #4 03-20-2011, 10:22 PM

Great tune. Played it a few times with my band. Never got the impression the original was on fretless.

Spinal Tapper · #5 03-21-2011, 02:57 PM

my band did a cover of this song. definitely not fretless tone.