He seems to like his modded 57 pbass with 2 jazz pickups in the rear and says he recorded a lot of tunes with it. Was this a common mod?
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Gord Sinclair's 57 P bass
- Thread starter matti777
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Single J yes - not so much the double J.
Just off the top of my head;
1st thing I thought of were the double J's in Roscoe Beck's basses, although early 90s would certainly pre-date the production models.
Kyle and Roscoe both played with Eric Johnson - so I'm sure they at least were familiar with each other. Seems more than a coincidence....
My next thought; Tragically HIP's 1st album is 37 years old How is the possible ???!!!!
Just off the top of my head;
1st thing I thought of were the double J's in Roscoe Beck's basses, although early 90s would certainly pre-date the production models.
Kyle and Roscoe both played with Eric Johnson - so I'm sure they at least were familiar with each other. Seems more than a coincidence....
My next thought; Tragically HIP's 1st album is 37 years old How is the possible ???!!!!
In another video he says he recorded ‘Up to Here’ on his 68 P which he then sold for the money and has since bought back. I’m curious as to what the 57 sounds like on its own.
My hip is pretty tragic these days, but ooooofff!! This hit right in the soft underbelly!
-robert
It was a common practice to add pickups back in the 70's in any number of configurations. Players often added mudbuckers, Rickenbacker, Hagstrom/Dark Star, Js, additional Ps and other choices like the occasional guitar pickup to a P-Bass sometimes Jbass. In the 80's adding a J in the bridge was almost a requirement and the reason that pairing continues to be popular. Switching options varied widely as well.
Vintage devotees may decry these mods as sacrilegious but IMHO these individual mods should make them MORE valuable as historical relics of veneration. YMMV.
and of course we must include this beast
Vintage devotees may decry these mods as sacrilegious but IMHO these individual mods should make them MORE valuable as historical relics of veneration. YMMV.
and of course we must include this beast
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Then there's the mysterious modded bass used by Ron Wood (not Ronnie Wood) in the Move and Electric Light Orchestra.
Seems to be two single-coil pickups (maybe Jazz pickups, maybe not), each covering two strings, probably wired in stereo. In a couple of the songs on the Move's Message from the Country album, it sounds as if the E and A strings are in one channel and the D and G strings in the other.
Maybe he had heard about stereo Rickenbacker basses and figured it would be cheaper to mod the Fender bass he already owned than to buy a Rickenbacker.
Funny that nobody seems to have copied the design for their own bass. There's a challenge for the luthiers on TalkBass!
(The bass was discussed in this earlier TalkBass thread.)
I had the chance to purchase Gord’s G&L L-5500 in belair green. Wish I did, however, I couldn’t deal with the colour. This was maybe 1998 ish.
