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05-22-2007, 09:04 PM
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Did cliff every play a fiver/sixer? I thought he just played 4's but some guy kept telling me he played a sixer... which I don't think is true |
05-22-2007, 09:18 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: WI | | | Not that I know of. |
05-22-2007, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | I think he played guitar, so that counts. |
05-22-2007, 09:33 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | Absolutely not. 
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05-22-2007, 09:36 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | Never heard of it, either. |
05-22-2007, 09:44 PM
| | | | guess I was right then.
I was playing seek and destroy and this drunk guy comes up and says ( at my friends house ) you guys sounded good but you need a six string bass. Cliff used a six string bass, and he needed it to get all of those octaves. Listen to kill 'em all and hear how low that is. That is a six string bass.
not his exact words, but his basic statements. |
05-22-2007, 10:10 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Auburn, Washington | | | lol? They played in standard tuning. He wouldn't need a low B. I don't see how much "lower" you could go, even if you had an F# string. =/ |
05-22-2007, 10:12 PM
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05-22-2007, 10:26 PM
| | floppy b strings | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bronx, NY | | | Cliff does use distortion on Seek and Destroy, but it's definetly in standard tuning on a 4 string bass.
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05-22-2007, 10:38 PM
| | | | well next time I see him I will bring all of this up. I was going to say he just used a 4 and they played in standard E tuning, but I have learned to never argue or bet with a drunk. |
05-23-2007, 04:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: The little red dot on the map. | | The six-string motherplucker...
Nope, it don't work. 
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05-23-2007, 10:03 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Nope, he never used a 6 string... |
05-23-2007, 10:27 AM
| | | | I think he was a classical guitarist. |
05-23-2007, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | I don't think that there was very many sixers around then. Anthony Jackson's customs, but not many more.
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05-23-2007, 03:23 PM
| | | | In interviews, he said he never used, or will use a bass that has more than 4 strings=) His gear was this actually:
Rickenbacker 4001.
Aria Pro SB-1000RI.
Alembic Spoiler. (This was stolen, according to Burton in an interview)
Fender Precision Bass Burton used this whenever he played with Spastik Children
Mesa Boogie 4"x12" cabinet.
Custom-built 1"x15" cabinet.
Mesa Boogie Mesa 400+ head.
Ampeg SVT-1540HE Classis Series Enclosure
Chrome Tel-Ray Morley Power Wah Fuzz. (discontinued since 1983)
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
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05-26-2007, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Holland | | | He must have played a Mesa/Boogie D-180 or Bass 400.
I think the Bass 400+ was introduced in 1987/88...(?) |
05-26-2007, 11:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | | Cliff NEVER played anything more than a 4 string. I don't hear anything lower than E on Kill 'Em All. The guy was drunk, thats all there is to it. |
05-27-2007, 03:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Holland | | His modified Rickenbacker (Jazz Bass pickup @ bridge, Gibson Humbucker @ neck): 
Aria SB1000 (with oval inlays) He also used an Aria with dot inlays: 
Rare pictures of his Alembic Spoiler:   
Still bangin': 
Couldn't find pics of his fender... |
05-27-2007, 04:10 AM
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Originally Posted by SOA_bassist Did cliff every play a fiver/sixer? I thought he just played 4's but some guy kept telling me he played a sixer... which I don't think is true | Why does it matter? 
it's not like u could hear him anyways, except for his sloppy distorted solos which was played on a four-string.  |
05-27-2007, 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by lilterier it's not like u could hear him anyways, except for his sloppy distorted solos which was played on a four-string. | dud
anyway, i think that guy was just talking sh*t... i've never seen cliff play with anything but a 4 stringer | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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