Fantastic video. Really helps to confuse players considering how great both strings sound! Personally- I'm a flats-til-I-die kind of man.
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Fender Jazz bass with flats...examples?
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Fantastic video. Really helps to confuse players considering how great both strings sound! Personally- I'm a flats-til-I-die kind of man.
Jealous! I would literally start to cry having that bass in my hands. Literally. Tears everywhere. Such an amazing player and so sad and tragic.
I don't know which iconic recordings have flats on a jazz, but I've been using chromes on my jazz for several years.
Great to have the angelic Karen Carpenter vocal and the distinctive Joe Osborn style and heavy pick-on-flats tone so easy to hear. It dawned on me...anyone else hear a connection to Berry Oakley's early style and sound ("Beginnings" a/k/a The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South)???
back with a sample, because I wasn't using the Jazz with Jamersons due to a couple of Gibsons I bought in the last months:
every time, and I mean it litterally, every time I pick up this bass and play something, it's magic. there's nothing like it, and I think that the Jazz+Jamerson match is the best thing in the bass world, even better than the Precision with flats, which was my main bass in the last seven years...
every time, and I mean it litterally, every time I pick up this bass and play something, it's magic. there's nothing like it, and I think that the Jazz+Jamerson match is the best thing in the bass world, even better than the Precision with flats, which was my main bass in the last seven years...
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Bootsy Collins with James Brown was Jazz/Flats, also Willie Weeks with Donny Hathaway. David Hood from Muscle Shoals was Jazz/Flats as well...Definitely a great tonal combination!
Leo Lyons from Ten Years After !
Huge flat jazz bass tone !
Also Mel Schacher from early Grand Funk Railroad , but it is so overdriven that I don't think it's obvious
Huge flat jazz bass tone !
Also Mel Schacher from early Grand Funk Railroad , but it is so overdriven that I don't think it's obvious
jazz with rounds just sounds clanky to me now
and I am a huge geddy fan
it's ok, I play rush with the jazz with flats--I just eq it a bit and it is close enough to me
and I am a huge geddy fan
it's ok, I play rush with the jazz with flats--I just eq it a bit and it is close enough to me
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
I thought he was using Rotosound tapes?
Some observations on some of these posts...
David Hood also used an Alembic, and sigle-coil Precision. That's the SCP on The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There".
Herbie Flowers use Rotosound nylon tapewounds, same set since he got the bass.
Joe Osborn never used the bridge PUP on his famous Jazz bass, but the same set of LaBellas for well over 20 years.
John Paul Jones has said more recently that he never used flats with LZ, but in a 1977 he said he used flats until he got his first Alembic. As that was much closer to the events, and the interview in Guitar Player was much more comprehensive than more recent ones, I'm going with flats on the earliest Zeppelin recordings.
David Hood also used an Alembic, and sigle-coil Precision. That's the SCP on The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There".
Herbie Flowers use Rotosound nylon tapewounds, same set since he got the bass.
Joe Osborn never used the bridge PUP on his famous Jazz bass, but the same set of LaBellas for well over 20 years.
John Paul Jones has said more recently that he never used flats with LZ, but in a 1977 he said he used flats until he got his first Alembic. As that was much closer to the events, and the interview in Guitar Player was much more comprehensive than more recent ones, I'm going with flats on the earliest Zeppelin recordings.
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Yeah I agree with you on all counts. Especially in regards to John Paul Jones there's actually some isolated tracks floating around out there and having been a Jazz with flats player for some time, there's no way he's not using flats on a jazz bass on some of those Led Zeppelin records. Even the deadest of rounds don't have the same sound on a jazz bass as a set of flats in my humble opinion, especially with both pickups and the tone wide open.
This. There is no way that isn't a J w/flats on the early recordings.
Joe used Fender flats. And had a killer fat tone. He recorded with his live setup, which were the ultra scarce Bruce amps with 15" Altecs.
These photos of Joe Schermie's Jazz bass show red silk, which suggests Rotos. I don't think Fender flats ever came with red silk, did they?
That's actually my bass, which I purposely turned into a JS Tribute bass years ago! Still use it. Thomastiks on there, BTW... ;-)
