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04-21-2008, 11:47 AM
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Someone said to me "like meshell ndegeocello", So I'm researching what exactly that is - gear, strings, setup, style.
(She seems to use several basses)
Well, the first step is to listen. What are the best/most represenative albums of her style? |
04-21-2008, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | | Most of her stuff was done on an old Fender Jazz Bass with flatwounds going into an Eden rig.
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04-22-2008, 06:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hatfield, Herts, UK | | | Thanks Alan. That saves me looking it up.
... but what about best CD? ........ or don't we buy those any more. |
04-22-2008, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Jersey Shore, USA | | | I'd start at the beginning - 'Plantation Lullabies' (her debut album). IIRC, she mainly used a maple board Jazz w/ EMG's & strung with very old flats.
I own (and love) all of her albums, but that's the one I keep going back to.
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04-22-2008, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Buskman  I'd start at the beginning - 'Plantation Lullabies' (her debut album). IIRC, she mainly used a maple board Jazz w/ EMG's & strung with very old flats.
I own (and love) all of her albums, but that's the one I keep going back to. | Same here. I love that album.
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04-22-2008, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | | You really couldn't go wrong just taking all of her her albums in order. I think it shows how she developed as an artist. "Bitter" is a great album but not much wild bass playing on it.
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04-22-2008, 06:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Silver Spring, MD | | | Plantation Lullabies is a great start for the sheer funk of it.
I would also have to mention her Dance of the Infidel- which has a much jazzier out vibe to it ( personnel include Matt Garrison, Gene Lake, Sabina Sciubba and others). Then finally Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape as that has got some sweet stuff on it too.
Two weeks after her Dance of the Infidel tour came through Baltimore I heard about the album. I was pretty upset to have missed the show. |
04-22-2008, 07:06 PM
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I saw her play in the early 90's in Northhampton. She played a Surine bass-I think it was 5 strings. Her live act included a male bassist who laid the foundation with an Ibanez ATK. Don't remember the brand of her rig but I believe both she and the other bassist had 4x10/1x15 stacks. Very diiferent live vibe/sound versus her studio albums. The band tended to vamp while she soloed over the groove. She was actually really nasty to the band and verbally scolded them a few times.
I can't believe that her sound is solely an old Fender with ancient flats on it. That's not what I hear at all.
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04-23-2008, 07:50 AM
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I can't believe that her sound is solely an old Fender with ancient flats on it. That's not what I hear at all.[/QUOTE]
She has definitely used other gear over the course of her career (Gibson Les Paul bass, Surine, Modulus, Celinder, Fodera, etc.), especially in a live setting.
The "Jazz with EMG's & flats" tone I was referring to is all over the first album! Not "solely" her tone, but a pretty big ingredient, IMO! 
For reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE3Y380Nv8Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JfHV...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNd5oCwHgRc
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