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12-07-2005, 12:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Connecticut | | | "Hutch" Hutchinson on Bonnie Raitt Special
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I've been watching the Bonnie Raitt special on Direct TV lately.
James "Hutch" Hutchinson is her bassist.
His tone is amazing on this show. I have been trying to figure out what basses he is using.
It looks to me that both basses (Jazz & P/J) he is using have a Modulus(?) graphite neck on them.
That white jazz is the ****. Just grunts and pops in all the right ways.
His rig looks like (2) SVT Pro IIs, and a Line 6 Bass Pro.
Anyway, if anyone knows what his basses are, that would be greatly appreciated. |
12-07-2005, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by sincity I've been watching the Bonnie Raitt special on Direct TV lately.
James "Hutch" Hutchinson is her bassist.
His tone is amazing on this show. I have been trying to figure out what basses he is using.
It looks to me that both basses (Jazz & P/J) he is using have a Modulus(?) graphite neck on them.
That white jazz is the ****. Just grunts and pops in all the right ways.
His rig looks like (2) SVT Pro IIs, and a Line 6 Bass Pro.
Anyway, if anyone knows what his basses are, that would be greatly appreciated. | I'm going to see Bonnie's Gig here in ATL this Sunday... hopefully i'll get a glimpse... maybe even chat with him. |
12-07-2005, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by j-raj I'm going to see Bonnie's Gig here in ATL this Sunday... hopefully i'll get a glimpse... maybe even chat with him. | Cool j-raj. Enjoy the show. She is playing some killer tunes with an excellent band. Yeah, if you get to talk to him or can figure out for yourself what he is using, that would be great.
I know Line 6 is touting him as a user of their Variax 700 bass, but they don't look like Line 6 basses. |
12-07-2005, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: London, UK | | | BP did a couple on articles on him-
the bass he said he used the most was a sunburst P bass made by Stars Guitars with a Modulus Graphite neck and EMG PJ's. |
12-07-2005, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by The Mock Turtle Regulator BP did a couple on articles on him-
the bass he said he used the most was a sunburst P bass made by Stars Guitars with a Modulus Graphite neck and EMG PJ's. | Well, that sounds like the P-bass. Thank you.
I wonder if the jazz bass is from Stars Guitars as well.  |
12-07-2005, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: London, UK | | | I've dug out the old BP issue (dec 93) and he mentions fretted and fretless Modulus Graphite J basses built by Geoff Gould in the style of 61' J's.
there's a couple of white graphite neck basses just visible in a pic. |
12-07-2005, 05:57 PM
| | | 
Seen special too.
Hutch is playing his two Modulus basses.
The white one has Jazz style pickups.
The sunburst is a PJ model.
Both have grapite necks. |
12-07-2005, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Kansas City area | | | I saw them in Kansas City in early October and Hutch just amazed me with his tasty pocket playing. He just always sounded like he wasn't doing much, but he was playing the crap out of that bass. His playing was always right in the groove, but not the least but boring.
I agree that his tone is top notch. |
12-08-2005, 12:26 AM
| | Banned [Deceiving users with multiple usernames] | | | | | Bonny's voice is like gold, she sings with such emotion and soul. When she and Bruce Hornsby first came out with the haunting ballad "I can't make you love me" , I used to get goosebumps. She has gotten better with age, no doubt. |
12-08-2005, 08:13 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Last House on the Block-Texas | | | I guess he wasn't using the Line 6 Variax eh? <g> |
12-08-2005, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by bigtexashonk I guess he wasn't using the Line 6 Variax eh? <g> | Definately not. |
12-08-2005, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: London, UK | | in that BP article it would appear that Hutchinson's got at least double the number of basses modelled by the Variax- in the pic alone  |
12-08-2005, 10:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Hutch has always been one of my favorite players. The man can't do no wrong! |
12-12-2005, 04:54 PM
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Nordy User... Endorser of SIT strings, Epifani Cabs & Benavente Basses Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Atlanta/Nashville/Lexington | | | Saw Bonnie's gig last night at the Tabernacle! Hutch was amazing! Very solid... Still one of my favorites! I had no idea that he had been playing with her since '83.
He played that PJ with the Graphite neck, a Modulus 5'ver, Azola Baby bass and a fretless Washburn ABG.
John Broussard opened up for them... OMG, his voice has some power! |
12-13-2005, 01:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Northern California | | | Thanks for this post! I was just searching for information on the bass player after watching the freeview a couple of times. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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