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05-19-2005, 07:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Maria Stein, OH | | | Who's Fleetwood Mac's bassist and what does he play?
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Been listening to FM's greatest hits - songs like Dreams are superb.
Who's on the bass and what was his ax and rig back in the 70s and early 80s? |
05-19-2005, 07:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | | John McVie played bass, Mick Flletwood played drums, hence, Fleetwood Mac!
I don't know what his gear was back then, but he plays one hell of a sweet bass now!
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05-19-2005, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by CJK84 Been listening to FM's greatest hits - songs like Dreams are superb.
Who's on the bass and what was his ax and rig back in the 70s and early 80s? | John McVie. I think on a lot of the band's 70's-80's hits he used Alembics but I've also seen him with a P-Bass. Over the past few years he's been using a Tobias.
Great player.
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05-19-2005, 09:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dupont, PA | | | Fender Precisions, Alembics, Tobias, and Rick Turner electric basses. He also played Kramer and Turner acoustic/electric basses. Tasty tone!
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05-20-2005, 05:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | | Yeah he has some tasty lines, the chain and the green manilishi are my favourites.. |
05-20-2005, 05:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cottage Grove, St. Paul suburb | | | He also played Warwicks and, as far as I know, he uses Ampeg amps and speakers but I don't know what models |
05-22-2005, 10:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | And in case anyone was wondering, Flick Meatwood was the drummer in Meatwood Flack  |
05-23-2005, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Boston, Taxachusetts | | | I've also seen shots of John in the early Peter Green era playing a Thunderbird!
For the mid 70s Buckingham/Nicks stuff it's most likely either the Precision or the Alembic. Turners didn't come out until 1980 or so, Tobias mid 80s. |
05-24-2005, 08:18 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | I was never a Fleetwood Mac fan but my current band had a few of their tunes on the setlists. I listened to them and I was like.......whoa, nice basslines! Specifically, we play Say You Love Me, Silver Springs & Rhiannon. |
05-24-2005, 02:21 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | I agree!.....I think John's lines where the epitome of taste, space and groove for the pop music they where making at the time 
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05-24-2005, 06:30 PM
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Here's my band, with me on bass of course, playing Say You Love Me.  |
05-27-2005, 04:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | One thing that no-one really gets a handle on is that Fleetwood Mac was Peter Green's band. In fact, the name of the band was 'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.' The core of the band was from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and because Peter wanted what he thought was the best rhythm section in the world behind him, he named the band after the guys he wanted in the band. Unfortunately, McVie didn't want to leave the guaranteed paycheck of being in Mayall's band. I guess it took some arm twisting. 
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05-29-2005, 02:51 PM
| | | | John currrently has four basses of mine, a fretted Renaissance RB-4, fretted and fretless Electroline 434-PMMs with two magnetic pickups and piezo bridge, and a custom bird's eye maple top and back double symetrical cutaway that's kind of in the spirit of his first Alembic, but made with a bolt-on Electroline neck. I also made him several Alembics "back in the day", including a fretless with a stainless steel fingerboard and the very first graphited necked bass. He got both of those during the time the band was recording "Rumours".
John used the Electroline fretted and Renaissance for the band's latest record, "Say You Will."
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