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Excellent players who play a cheap basses

#61
speedkills said:
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:eek: Coooooool!

Thanks for that speedkills, I would never have found that with Google ;).

And, right on topic, we find ace bassist Stuart Morrow using which bass ....... ?

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Yep, it's about $200 worth of Tanglewood Warrior II. What's even spookier (for me) is that I had the exact same model of bass during the "lost years" of 2000-2003, when I was concentrating on guitars and it was then the only bass that I owned :(!

If I'd have known that one of my heroes was now using one, I wouldn't have let it go for 73GBP on ebay last year :p.
 
#64
re: Berlin etc

His particular instrument is handmade in the US, the ghost build luthier's name escapes me now... but he is certainly not playing a production Korean instrument, good as they actually are. Even Steve Vai's Ibanez's are ghostbuilt handmades.
 
#67
82Daion said:
This would be my nomination.

Bob owned my Jazz Special fretless for a time, and he gets some awesome sounds out of his.
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Many Many Many moons ago I caught the Raisins (This was just before they lost the right to the name) at Bogarts in cincinnati. One of the most amazing shows I've ever seen. Three guys making the most amazing sound. Nyswonger and Arduser managed to sound like way more than two people.
 
#69
I went to a Blues Jam in Ft. Thomas Ky a few years ago. This guy came in with a beat up gig bag and pulled out what looked to be a 60's Tesico, or some off brand Japanese bass. The pickups were held in with black electrical tape, and the plastic was broken of of one of the tuners. He got up and just absolutely KILLED. Great tone, better than anyone else I heard that night. Just goes to show it's not always the equipment price tag that provides the tone.
 
#70
Jonathan Maron (Groove Collective, Joshua Roseman et al) prefers inexpensive passive basses (Yamaha BBs, Guild etc.).

Justin Meldal-Johnsen is known for pulling out pawn shop specials occasionally (shortscales, hollowbodies...) for a different sound.

Both are killer players and living proof of the old "it´s all in the fingers" adage. :)
 
#73
This is about a guitarist not a bassist.

There is a jazz-funk fusion type of band near where I live, and the guitarist is AMAZING. He had a fancy midi controlled Marshall rack setup, and Mesa Boogie cabs (in stereo), and some effects and stuff. But I couldn't work out what his guitar was. It was obviously an HSH Strat of some kind, but it had 24 frets and a Floyd Rose, and the pickups were all different colours and the scratchplate was oddly shaped, and there was no logo on the headstock.

So after the gig I was chatting to him, and I asked him about his guitar. He said that when he was about 17, he wanted a guitar, but couldn't afford one. So he borrowed his friend's strat, put it on his parent's coffee table and cut around it with a saw. He then bought the neck and other parts and added them on over the years (he said it didn't originally have the Floyd). I though it was a good story, but what made it better was the coffee cup ring on part of the exposed wood above the bridge!
 
#75
Saturday said:
kim deal of the pixies played an aria pro 2 with a peavey "boat anchor of hell" combo 300, he still used that amp for several albums (but changed her bass for an american fender precision)
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yeah and from what i understand the only reason she got the P is cos she rocked up to the studio to record "do little" and the enginer
took one look at her bass and said " no , your getting a new bass" .
. w@#ker! those csb aria basses sound cool.
 
#76
CThompson said:
Many Many Many moons ago I caught the Raisins (This was just before they lost the right to the name) at Bogarts in cincinnati. One of the most amazing shows I've ever seen. Three guys making the most amazing sound. Nyswonger and Arduser managed to sound like way more than two people.
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They're quite awesome, aren't they?

Bob is a good friend of mine, and it's always good to hear from someone else who digs his/their music.

Are you coming to the Cincinnati get-together?
 
#77
Steve Harris- Ibanez Roadster
Graham Maby-Ibanez P/J

As an owner and lover of Ibanez's I mean no disrespect to them by calling them cheap, but I recall seeing those guys playing them in the early 80's and thinking, "Why are they playing those, they're cheap!''(I was playing a Hondo II
at the time!)
BTW-Maby's Ibanez (same one he played on Look Sharp!)
recently went on E-Bay for +$5000.00-Not so cheap!
 
#78
Fender32 said:
:eek: Coooooool!

Thanks for that speedkills, I would never have found that with Google ;).

And, right on topic, we find ace bassist Stuart Morrow using which bass ....... ?

Morrow.jpg


Yep, it's about $200 worth of Tanglewood Warrior II. What's even spookier (for me) is that I had the exact same model of bass during the "lost years" of 2000-2003, when I was concentrating on guitars and it was then the only bass that I owned :(!

If I'd have known that one of my heroes was now using one, I wouldn't have let it go for 73GBP on ebay last year :p.
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Tanglewood's are very cool, espically for the price!:bassist:
 
#80
RE: The Danelectro Longhorn-
They were a very cheaply made instrument, the sides were made of pine covered in thick plastic tape-like material, with the top and back made of masonite, shiney side out.
Mine hade a very fast neck that was not very stable and required periodic tweaking of the truss rod. It had a wedge of what looked like rosewood at the bridge and no real adjustment there. I never played above the octave on any string. The whold bass needed tightening of screws, etc every few months because everything came loose after playing awhile, and started buzzing.
Despite this, they SOUNDED great when they were tightened up, and many 50's and early 60's records were made with the Dan. They are GREAT recording basses.
I bought mine in 1963, when I was 14, with the factory hard shell case for around $125, and played it till I sold it in '75.
Won't comment on my own playing, but I have heard them played live by others and they really slammed the lower tones out, especially through a tube amp-you could just feel the place vibrate.

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