Famous Jazz Bass Recordings?

[Richard Sabines]

Juan Alderete from The Mars Volta. Only jazz

 

[chiplexic]

"Only Livin' Boy In New York", "Bridge Over Troubled Waters", etc.- the whole Joe Osborn catalog in fact is the same Jazz bass with the same set of strings. That'd include the stuff by The Carpenters, "Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In" by the 5th Dimension, etc.

John

Yes sir,great examples. There was only a scant few songs he used a Precision on and I believe he said one was Ricky Nelson "Travelin Man". Another was an older country solo artist,name escapes me.

Some other great JO Jazz playing was with America: Tin Man,Vetura Highway,Lonely People....
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[iamthebassman]

My Generation (The Who,mid 60's) was not a Fender:scowl:
That world famous, riff/solo/sound was played with a $50 bass known as Danelectro at the time.
Every Who and Entwhistle fan know this as there's an interesting tale on this subject.
Woffle

This is absolutely INCORRECT! "Every Who and Entwhistle(sic) fan know" the real story.

 

[lousybassplayer]

My generation was recorded on a Buzzard bass with DR lowriders through a string tied to a soup can with a hole punched in it. Every true Green Day fan knows that.

 

[JTE]

Yes sir,great examples. There was only a scant few songs he used a Precision on and I believe he said one was Ricky Nelson "Travelin Man". Another was an older country solo artist,name escapes me.

Some other great JO Jazz playing was with America: Tin Man,Vetura Highway,Lonely People....
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Joe's story on the Jazz bass is that Ricky Nelson had an endorsement deal with Fender for the band. They were getting ready to do a tour of Australia and Fender asked what he wanted. Joe said "a bass and a Bassman amp", thinking they only had the one bass at the time, the Precision. Osborn said he was kind of upset when they sent him a Jazz because it had too many knobs, but he got to like the neck, and it became HIS bass. That would have been very late in '59 or 1960.

BTW, Joe only uses the neck pickup soloed. Like Carol Kaye, a lot of the early LA studio work was recorded with a Fender Concert (the predecessor to the Super Reverb, essentially a Super without reverb. Open back, 4x10, 5U4GB rectifier and a pair of 6L6 in the power amp).

John

 

[JTE]

The story behind "My Generation" is a great example of the futility of chasing tone with gear. Thinking one's gotta have the same bass, amp, strings, etc. as what was used on a specific recording in order to emulate that sound in the real world leads one down a path that I've found is frustrating. Instead of trying to get the sound I hear out of what I have, I spent too much time (and MONEY!!) thinking that getting something else would do the job for me.

John

 

[lousybassplayer]

And if you do actually accomplish it, CONGRATS! You now have spent all of your time, money and skill to make yourself only useful for one thing, sounding like a particualry guy on a particular recording. How many Who cover bands are there?

How many of them have multi million dollar deals and are playing stadiums?

 

[Spinal Tapper]

Juan Alderete from The Mars Volta. Only jazz

Sick jazz - loaded w/ Darkstars - hardly a "typical" jazz bass. Very cool though!

 

[shrimpflea]

one of my favorites is Joe Osborne on "let the sun shine in" with the 5th dimension...1960 Fender Jazz with flats, a pick and only the front pickup on.