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02-21-2012, 03:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Canada | | | Is this vintage jazz tone to you?
Perhaps this is a rhetorical question as this is a vintage tone to me. We all have many discussions on vintage tone but I expect everyone's definition varies. What do you think and what exactly is he playing? I'm guessing flats or dead rounds? "AINT NO SUNSHINE" LYLE'S BASS SOLO, SCOTTY, GREG AT CUTLER BAY (cover) - YouTube
ps He looks like quite the character...love the bass line but not the pants 
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02-21-2012, 04:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | My opinion? Not very vintage sounding at all.
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02-21-2012, 04:29 PM
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Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: SE Virginia via NYC | | | Sounds like he has dead strings and the neck pickup favored or solo'd! Highs eq'd out. Not your typical jazz tone. Wondering why he's even playing a Jazz with that sound?!? |
02-21-2012, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by DWBass  Sounds like he has dead strings and the neck pickup favored or solo'd! Highs eq'd out. Not your typical jazz tone. Wondering why he's even playing a Jazz with that sound?!? | Well isnt the point of having selectable pickups the ability to get different tones from each one? |
02-21-2012, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Canada | | | I can see the opinions vary already. There is no wrong or right here IMHO. I think of vintage tone as more lows, less highs and woody. I suppose the tonal difference between a vintage p and j bass would be smaller than that of modern sounding basses. If anybody has links to audio/video of what they think vintage sound is that would be great too.
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02-21-2012, 05:41 PM
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02-21-2012, 05:48 PM
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EDIT: ***? human cow bell stand? |
02-21-2012, 05:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Jamestown, NY | | Absolutely nothing sounds vintage at all to me. The PRS, the squeals from the Strat, nothing. I'd be interested to know what he's playing through. So I can avoid it. It does remind me of Roger Water's tone at times. I'm not yet sure if I think that's good or bad 
I'm a fan of playing lead and kicking solos but that one sounds...like a guitarist playing bass. Not like a bassist playing a bass solo.
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Originally Posted by two fingers I imagine playing that thing is like having several girlfriends at once. It probably seemed like fun at first but........ |
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02-21-2012, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Triangle Is he playing a show in PJs?
EDIT: ***? human cow bell stand? | Know in some parts as "drinking pants"... 
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02-21-2012, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Triangle Is he playing a show in PJs?
EDIT: ***? human cow bell stand? | Insert overused "It needs more cowbell" joke here ________.
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Originally Posted by two fingers I imagine playing that thing is like having several girlfriends at once. It probably seemed like fun at first but........ | |
02-21-2012, 06:14 PM
| | | | Haha, what a show. And note the pickguard, The man, The legend". Haha.
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02-21-2012, 06:20 PM
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Step away from the bass and put your hands where we can see em. You are under arrest for assault of a musical instrument.
Awesome in it's badness. 
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02-21-2012, 06:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: NYC | | | Yes, sounds vintage to me.
ps. those chicks on the tv are totally awesome!!! |
02-21-2012, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Luckydog Haha, what a show. And note the pickguard, The man, The legend". Haha. | hahahahaha, I saw that too.
In light of that, we can call him, "Bananas in Pajamas".
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Originally Posted by two fingers I imagine playing that thing is like having several girlfriends at once. It probably seemed like fun at first but........ | |
02-21-2012, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Dbassmon Step away from the bass and put your hands where we can see em. You are under arrest for assault of a musical instrument. | when drums stop, very, very bad....
that poor Bill Withers tune. 
I don't diss anyone's playing (unless they diss mine)....but this is not my cup o'tea, sonically at least. |
02-21-2012, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Dbassmon
Step away from the bass and put your hands where we can see em. ..
| Step away from the drums, too please. And send the guitarists back to their metal bands.
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Originally Posted by Bassist4Eris My reggae skills are rudimentary enough that I just play whatever the original guy played. :) | |
02-21-2012, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by otherclef Know in some parts as "drinking pants"... | I'm not familiar with that terminology. I guess someone can start another thread called "performance attire"
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02-21-2012, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bern, Switzerland | | | Hard not to think that the only people in the venue other than the band were the barman, the guy with the camera and the guy with the cowbell.
If I had only two bullets, I'd shoot the guy with the cowbell.
Twice.
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02-21-2012, 08:39 PM
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02-21-2012, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: greenfield center NY | | | I think it is 70's vintage J tone, the sound guy had the usual heavy on the bottom EQ making the bass drum sound really BIG and the rest of the band mixed into the background somewhere, & guitars sounding really thin. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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