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Double Bass Difference between "rockabilly" and "Jazz" basses?

#61
It's just the setup! Inch and a half action, big old weed wacking colorful strings, fancy paint job of flames and skulls you wouldn't see on an Abraham Prescott bass. Generally any cheapo ply bass can be turned into a Rockabilly bass with some artistic talent, after all rockabilly bass is the art where the bass instantly becomes a percussion instrument.
 
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#64
thebassbass said:
what are they? and what is typical and who gets to define typical? Anything you say is typical for a rockabilly player i can name any number of jazz guys that have used the same. apart from flame paint but then you dont have to have flame paint to be a rockabilly player.

I guess it just all seems a bit immature to me. It reminds me of a small kid calling an acoustic guitar a "country guitar" and an electric a "rock guitar". Like that all that instrument is capable of playing.
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+ a million. I play jazz on a plywood bass. Do I have it wrong?
 
#65
KStewart said:
Do you play a laminate bass Ed?
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When? I own a carved factory bass, but I owned, played, gigged and recorded with a Kay up until the early 90's.
The bass I play in our studio space is a Kay C-1, which I prefer over the Bohemian carved bass that is the other studio bass.
Dennis Irwin played an American Standard, Michael Moore a Christopher, Dwayne Burno an American Standard, Sean Smith a Kay (until recently).
The question most of us (jazz bassists) ask ourselves, when we're buying a bass, is "Do I like this sound?" Questions of cost, worth, construction, etc. tend only to come to the fore AFTER that first question is answered.
 
#66
Ed Fuqua said:
When? I own a carved factory bass, but I owned, played, gigged and recorded with a Kay up until the early 90's.
The bass I play in our studio space is a Kay C-1, which I prefer over the Bohemian carved bass that is the other studio bass.
Dennis Irwin played an American Standard, Michael Moore a Christopher, Dwayne Burno an American Standard, Sean Smith a Kay (until recently).
The question most of us (jazz bassists) ask ourselves, when we're buying a bass, is "Do I like this sound?" Questions of cost, worth, construction, etc. tend only to come to the fore AFTER that first question is answered.
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Was only asking out of pure curiosity.

In answer to your og question I quoted... Yes, that is the jazz bassists I know personal choices of bass for their gigs. I wasn't stating it as law in my original post that jazz players don't like or play laminates....just the ones I know, personally.


"Do I like this sound?"

+1

Every bassist should ask themselves that question first and foremost. With cost being close second :D
 
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KStewart said:
In answer to your og question I quoted... Yes, that is the jazz bassists I know personal choices of bass for their gigs. I wasn't stating it as law in my original post that jazz players don't like or play laminates....just the ones I know, personally.
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I can't think of many Chicago jazz players that choose a ply as their first bass. Of course, I don't know everyone. And yes, the sound comes first.

PS - Recently heard a good young player playing a Kay with a Latin jazz group and it had that thump. Sounded good for the style. I know that's not his first bass, though and the gig was outdoors.

PPS - Last time I heard the kid who now plays with Ramsey, he had a Kay, and one of the first call bass guitarists in town used a Kay on shows until he got an Upton recently. I'll probably start coming up with more now... I bet some of the younger cats just haven't gotten the bread together for a carved bass.
 
#70
Don Higdon said:
Harvie S uses a refinished Kay alot. Maybe somebody with a sharp eye (are you listening, Molly?) can tell if this is it. I'm looking at the tuning keys.
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You got it Don - small tuner gears and BIG f-holes. Plywood bass and plywood guitar in perfect harmony. ;)
 

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