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09-04-2011, 11:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Planet Earth | | | funky bassists who use cheap/inexpensive gear...?
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what funky soulful bassists out there on record or just in this life on planet earth use some cheap ass basses and get some awesome baddassness of a tone? didn't Prince use or maybe even still use cheap-o stuff? did Boostsy ever? hmmm...just curious...am i justifying cheap-o bass gear? not sure. i just kinda want to know...i love funky stuff and soulful funky bass playing... |
09-04-2011, 12:44 PM
| | | If you have something to say then as long as you can make it sound the way you want it to it will be good. My first successful band I had a sun mustang bass, a laney 150w head with a carlsbro 4x10 and we went far. I sounded good, we got on national BBC 1 television . And it was a phat sound . I always played through in house Pa s so my bass sound really was for my ears only. In effect a personal monitor most of the gigs. As long as it sounds good to you then you can make it sing.  |
09-04-2011, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by bezbass  As long as it sounds good to you then you can make it sing. | Very nice!
With a decent setup, many cheap basses can be playable- after that, it's all in what you do with it... |
09-04-2011, 12:51 PM
| | | In fact... All you need is a bass with good intonation and no warped bits. Enough frets for you. Volume and tone pots (preferably without crackle ) , a low enough action and right size strings so you can do everything your technique allows and an amp that you can hear without it farting all these things and you can sound like a great player and let the in house engineer deal with the rest  |
09-04-2011, 12:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | Your referring to Prince's WildCat Guitar. Yes, I think he paid $75 for it in a pawn shop. H.S. Anderson...or Hohner. But as far as other (cheap) stuff, no. Try there have been several occasions were he throws a Custom Warwick Thumb across the stage, I cringe every time I see it!!!
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09-04-2011, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Maui, HI | | | Jeff Berlin claims to only own one bass and it's under $500.
Personally I think there are plenty of inexpensive production basses that sound and play great. I don't think it's up to others to tell me what instrument to play.
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09-04-2011, 05:47 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Jeff got a new bass a year ago from Dean, but it's the same sig model with a fancier top. Don't know what he did with the old one, but he's definitely not a collector at all and generally only keeps one.
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09-04-2011, 05:51 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Bakithi Kumalo often uses a crap Washburn fretless. That's what he used for the Graceland album.
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09-04-2011, 06:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Metro Detroit | | Anybody have the youtube video of some funky guy soloing on a modded Squier?
edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFZ8...eature=related (Kenny Harris)
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09-04-2011, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Bakithi Kumalo often uses a crap Washburn fretless. That's what he used for the Graceland album. | And boy did he make it sing.
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09-04-2011, 09:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Planet Earth | | | so...maybe i should look into a cheap funky bass with some killer vibe for some funky cosmic slop? either a CV Jazz maybe a geddy Jazz maybe a Mexi or Jap Jazz...or something else that's awesome and great for killer slap and finger funking... |
09-05-2011, 09:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | Princes bass sound is mostly a 75 Jazz, that's why when Rhonda is with him that's what you'll see. As far as a bassist being funky with a cheapo bass check out Guy Nsangue with JLP and his ESP hybrid: Bass solo GUY NSANGUE sur Mouna Bowa (Live JL PONTY) - YouTube
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09-05-2011, 09:34 AM
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09-05-2011, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by cjmodulus And boy did he make it sing. | yes sir... it was good enough for some exceptionally musical fretless playing...
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09-05-2011, 10:43 AM
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09-05-2011, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil Smith When I think of Jeff Berlin, I don't think funk. | He's got some funk stuff in his repertoire. "Chasin' Jason" is pretty funky. But as a rule, probably not.
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09-05-2011, 11:25 AM
| | | | Rod Ellicott, the original bassist for Cold Blood, used what was considered a cheap bass at the time. Some kind of one pu short scale Epiphone I think. |
09-05-2011, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil Smith When I think of Jeff Berlin, I don't think funk. | 'pump it ' grooves in places . Check out Joe frazer off pump it. It has a long run that is just notes but the res of thr tune has some mega funk |
09-05-2011, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil Smith When I think of Jeff Berlin, I don't think funk. | I hear what you're sayin'... I missed the word "funk' in the thread title. Doesn't mean he can't get funky though...
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09-05-2011, 12:10 PM
|  | lover of all things groovin, player of many basses | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Metro-Boston North Showahhh | | | Check out the cat from Groove Collective.. Pretty sure all his basses are pawn shop specials and he is funky as all hell.. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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