What bass does les claypool use?

xaero187 · #1 10-03-2002, 08:58 AM

well? what does he use? i'm baffled love him tho

neptoon · #2 10-03-2002, 09:02 AM

use the search function, man...he uses various carl thompson basses and he also has some 70's jazzers.

oldirtymoney · #3 10-03-2002, 12:47 PM

carl thompson

**rickbass** · #4 10-03-2002, 01:34 PM

He might show up with almost anything from an array of basses he has. But he is most closely associated Carl Thompsons and owns a slew of them.

Lately, he seems really into his two NS (Ned Steinberger) Designs electric upright basses.

He also seems to love his old violin-body Eko (looks a lot like a Hofner 500/1 that McCartney used).

neptoon · #5 10-03-2002, 01:55 PM

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Originally posted by rickbass
He also seems to love his old violin-body Eko (looks a lot like a Hofner 500/1 that McCartney used).

yeah, i remember a pic of les they showed in bp magazine with the eko he got from daddy's junky music hee hee

**rickbass** · #6 10-03-2002, 04:13 PM

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Originally posted by neptoon
yeah, i remember a pic of les they showed in bp magazine with the eko he got from daddy's junky music hee hee

Was it Daddy's??? This is really trivial, but, I thought it was Subway Music in SF. When Eko went belly-up, Subway bought all of their remaining stock and parts.

The only reason I thought of it was I spec'd and ordered a Frankenbass using an Eko body from Subway years ago and they never got back to me....musta been some great hash in town that week, I guess.

neptoon · #7 10-03-2002, 04:20 PM

eek...mebbe your right man...

**rickbass** · #8 10-03-2002, 05:00 PM

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eek...

Aw....don't say "eek" nep - who gives a tinker's damn anyway (although some of we TB'ers do get anal about meaningless details too often, IMO).

I was just curious because it wasn't the first time I would have been wrong and if I had known about Daddy's way back when I sent Subway my spec's, maybe I could have gotten an Eko cheap to get the body I wanted at the time.

Dave Siff · #9 10-03-2002, 07:07 PM

It was definitely Subway Guitars. I remember reading an interview with Claypool in BP where he talked about how Fat Dog put it together for him, and how he A/B'd it with a Hofner and the Eko played and sounded way better, to his ears anyway.

Mesa Man · #10 10-12-2002, 01:10 PM

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Originally posted by Dave Siff
.........he A/B'd it with a Hofner and the Eko played and sounded way better, to his ears anyway.

Well EAR actually, since he is deaf on (?) one due to a car accident.