Fender should issue a Chris Squire Signature model

[5StringBlues]

A better shot of the control plate in this collage:

 

[Deleted member 271037]

look at this video here … about 15:40 he is playing the Fender … also before that he is playing his 60s Rickenbacker with the contact paper stuck all over it

But 15:40 is playback so what he's actually playing on the recording is anyones guess.

 

[Clemouze]

A better shot of the control plate in this collage:


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Cool! Does someone know what these knobs do ?
Obviously no active things

 

[Clemouze]

A Squier Squire!

Since most of the time I see people mispealling Squier by Squire it would be appropriate

 

[two fingers]

In my head, I'll always see Squire playing a Rickenbacker.
YMMV, etc.

This. Only Yes uber fans even know about that bass. That would be a market of about 50 people.

 

[Slevage]

His sound was a Ric.

I know, I know , his fingers too.

 

[lowendblues]

Ironically, that's the whole reason I picked up this Squier, the Idea being to mod it like Chris's bass.

I'm kind of floored by what I got though. I really dig the tone, fit and finish of this bass as is. With low action, pick, DR high beams, and volume cranked up, this thing snarls and barks like an angry dog.

 

[Gizmot]

Sorry - I think the concept is completely bogus. I saw YES and Chris Squire a few months before he died. He used the Fender for one song and when he switched back to the Ric, there was no doubt which one sounded better for his style. Rics sound completely different than Fenders

 

[lowendblues]

I agree, Chris's Rick sound was untouchable. Even in his earliest recordings it was amazing. Its like he was born with it.

Listen to this:

 

[Skillet]

I've always Loved Yes's take on Paul Simon's America. They took a Fabulous tune and took it somewhere else, fabulously. I digress, but still .....

 

[4001]

A better shot of the control plate in this collage:


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Looks like he had it wired for Ric-O-Sound.....

 

[Ric5]

Boss, what's going on with the controls on this bass?

Toggle and a volume and tone for each pickup

 

[Ric5]

The modified Fender was his goto bass while the 4001 was being repaired from a broken headstock and it was having the contact paper removed and the cream paint applied.

If that bass had not ended up in the hands of his ex-wife as a divorce proceeding then he probably would have played it more …

 

[lfmn16]

In my head, I'll always see Squire playing a Rickenbacker.
YMMV, etc.

A Chris Squire Fender would be like that Gibson ad that showed Hendrix playing a Flying V. Yea, maybe he played one on occasion, but who thinks of a Gibson when they think of Hendrix?

 

[Axstar]

If I remember correctly, this is the bass he used on Lucky Seven from Fish Out of Water.

Likewise I think it was used on the piano interlude section of South Side of the Sky, bookended with Rickenbacker playing.

Chris used a few different basses on Fish Out of Water, including a Thunderbird and 8-string Rick all over Safe/Canon Song.

Boss, what's going on with the controls on this bass?

I reckon Chris went hunting for a backup for his Rickenbacker, and couldn't find one. Instead he got a luthier to install a second pickup under a chrome cover (ala Rick) and had a Telecaster guitar control plate added. This would give him a 3-way switch and volume and tone controls per pickup, like the Rick.

Interestingly The Internet reckons there was a Jazz bass pickup under that cover, but I've never seen definitive proof either way. The pickup cover looks like it came off of a Jazz bass.

 

[Tony In Philly]

The modified Fender was his goto bass while the 4001 was being repaired from a broken headstock and it was having the contact paper removed and the cream paint applied.

If that bass had not ended up in the hands of his ex-wife as a divorce proceeding then he probably would have played it more …

Does that mean that most songs on "Time and a Word" were actually recorded using the Tele Bass? Listening to it again, "No Opportunity...", "Astral Traveler", "Sweet Dreams", and the title track definitely sound like they could be using it.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Jimmy Page, famously associated with Les Pauls, has a signature Telecaster that will be revealed shortly. If he can get a signature Fender as a storied Gibson player, Squire can get a sig Fender as a storied Ric player.

Similarly, many would have a difficult time guessing that this signature g*itar from the Gibson Custom Shop was a tribute to Robbie Krieger, who played SGs onstage with The Doors (but used a mid-fifties Les Paul for slide and studio overdubs).


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Anything to make a $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!

This. Only Yes uber fans even know about that bass. That would be a market of about 50 people.

That many?

I've always Loved Yes's take on Paul Simon's America. They took a Fabulous tune and took it somewhere else, fabulously.

To me, it's better than the original.

 

[MVE]

His sound was a Ric.

I know, I know , his fingers too.

...and his amps.
Didn’t he plug into a Dual Reverb next to his bass amp to help get that top end???

EDIT: Sorry, Marshall JMP.

 

[Slevage]

...and his amps.
Didn’t he plug into a Dual Reverb next to his bass amp to help get that top end???

EDIT: Sorry, Marshall JMP.

Not sure what happened in the studio.
I know the first Yes Album was mixed on headphones- resulting in th bass being
“too loud”. They kept the results and kept mixing the bass levels up on subsequent albums to give us the band as we know it.

 

[BruceWane]

Jimmy Page, famously associated with Les Pauls, has a signature Telecaster that will be revealed shortly. If he can get a signature Fender as a storied Gibson player, Squire can get a sig Fender as a storied Ric player.

Eh, Page played his Telecaster in the Yardbirds, and Zep's first album and tour. And, unbeknownst to many, the solo in Stairway To Heaven is the Tele, which is about as iconic as it gets..... but playing Stairway live required the doubleneck, so that and Les Pauls are what the world saw in The Song Remains The Same, and during that period when Zep basically ruled the world.