Whammy

[Zerozeddy]

Bass whammy bars exist. Do any recordings by well-known artistes act as an example of their use?

[Mike Flynn]

Wooten uses one - and there's a guy who used to be in the Miles Davis band in the early 1990s called Foley who played a lead bass - but he just sounded like John Scofield on guitar - I guess listen to guitar guys for the various technique - doesn't Les Claypool have one on his four-banger? I think there's an album by his side-project called Sausage that featured some pretty heavy whammy bar stuff - mixing up slap and finger style to pretty wild effect.

Cheers

M

[atldeadhead]

Man, the whammy has been coming up in threads a lot the past couple of days.

The most amazing use of this pedal by a bass player, IMHO, is by Reed Mathis of the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. Check'em out.

[Mike Flynn]

hey dude - I think he's talking about Whammy BARS not pedals - my thread below ('Whammy Funk Thing' has me on my whammy pedal) - but the dude's a talkin' about the floppy bar that metal guys like to use on their axe's

M

Whammy thing:
Whammy Funk Thing

[zongeek]

les claypool used a whammy bar quite often. or at least on "john teh fisherman"

[Haderian]

That´s right, check out "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" too -- whammy on big chords. Claypool did a wild Star Spangled Banner-thing with his whammy bar on Woodstock `94, blew my mind and instantly turned me into a Primus fan. Thinking about installing one on my Fender Jazz. Anyone have any tips about brand names, pros and cons etc?

[superbassman2000]

tim commerford has one on his jazz, you can hear it on audioslave's "bring 'em back alive"
nothing to the claypool caliber, but he uses it...

[Muzique Fann]

I'm pretty sure Claypool is holding the whammy bar while he slaps on Is It Luck.

[Martybass]

I know Mark White from the Spin Doctors has one on his 'Rainbow Bass'. Can't say I've noticed it being used in any recordings though.