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08-09-2009, 10:04 PM
| | |  John Cale : Velvet Underground
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I just started listening to the Velvet Underground and I love John Cale's bass sound. So if possible I'd love some info on that.  |
08-09-2009, 10:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cambridge, MA. | | I love the Velvet Underground. Hard to find any info on what kind of gear they used. But this here looks like a P-Bass. 
And here's one where he's got a Vox Phantom. 
I really like Doug Yule's bass playing and singing on "Loaded" as well. |
08-09-2009, 11:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Roanoke Rapids, NC, USA | | | IIRC, he played a Jazz bass (burgundy mist, maybe?) during the '93 reunion tour.
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08-10-2009, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bogotá D.C. | | | Don't have any idea of what he used, but count me in as one of his fans
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08-11-2009, 09:55 AM
| | | i would KILL to achieve his sound in the first seconds of "EUROPEAN SON".... K I L L  |
08-17-2009, 06:04 AM
| | | | it seems i was, in fact, a thread killer. |
08-20-2009, 03:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bogotá D.C. | | well, don't think anyone wants to get killed over a bass tone 
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08-20-2009, 03:51 PM
| | | | I love the Velvet Underground one of my top bands. I think to achieve his tone a good ol' p bass with flats would do.
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08-21-2009, 04:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bogotá D.C. | | | Good reason to stay on flats
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I'm the basssist you hate: I play Epi Tbird, use Chromes, an 8th note rider, play with a pick, use effects(Effects Addict Club Member #23), ZERO funky, and not a Jaco fan
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08-21-2009, 04:53 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | The Vox Westminster shown on Cale's website looks a lot like the Vox bass amp I had back in high school four decades ago; mine had a similar tubular chromed wheeled cart, but I seem to recall that mine had an integrated head and cabinet, whereas the Westminster separated them. Talk about a trip down memory lane!  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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