Thank you. I’m not much of a gear head in as much as I know how to drive them, but not necessarily what makes them work.
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Fender should issue a Chris Squire Signature model
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Thank you. I’m not much of a gear head in as much as I know how to drive them, but not necessarily what makes them work.
I'm not much of a gear head in that sense either. I'd like to know more about wiring and stuff but if I did there's a danger of tinkering my basses into oblivion.
Thankfully I've have a few good friends who have been able to realize my ideas.
Here’s the results of my last tribute project. Pretty simple. I wanted to do a Phil Lynott tribute bass because I especially like his rarely played Precision with the maple fingerboard. Mine is more of an “inspired by” than an exact duplicate. Mine has a Babicz bridge because they’re lighter and, in my opinion, just better than the Badass. Mine has a DiMarzio DP126 set where his had a Yamaha blade in the bridge position. Mine is a passive Precision Bass Special with a Jazz style neck, And lastly mine has “Mexican Blood”.
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Looks great! He upgraded the original P pickup to a Dimarzio sometime in '79, right? Just before he switched to Ibanez Roadster RS900.
When he had the bridge pickup added?
'78 or '80? He used it for "Release, Release" in '78 and for "Does It Really Happen?" in 1980.
This is magnificent. I've been thinking of doing a similar thing for years and I think you've convinced me! I've always had my suspicions that Chris used this bass more regularly in the early days than most people think, but this opinion has caused some controversy
Hopefully I'll get a Squier in the New Year and go from there.
And on "Our Song", I believe.
It's also on Fish Out Of Water.
Yes indeed. It's on "Canon Song" alongside his 8-string Ric and at least to me the "You By My Side" sounds like a T-Bird.
He also used it for "Gimme Some Lovin" encore on "90125" tour.
Has anyone seen pics of Chris playing the Tele from the seventies? I'd guess he used it in the "Fragile" tour when they played "Southside Of The Sky" but not much after that.
I would think a J bass bridge pickup, just because of the necessary longer length where the string spread is wider.
I’m guessing you were trying to post this one:
But there’s plenty of Squire Tele coverage in this:
Not necessarily. One of the reasons the J-bass neck pickup has narrower pole spacing than the bridge is because the string taper caused by the 1.5" nut makes it so. The bridges on both basses were the same so there's no reason for a pickup with different spacing than the standard P-bass pickup. The Seymour Duncan Quarter pounder I use has its poles lined up with the strings.
