Looking for Recordings: Fender J With Flats

[Evan J]

I put low tension labella flats on my J bass today… it was a revelation.

What players have recorded a Fender Jazz with flat wounds? The more genres the better. Links would be appreciated. Live or studio.

Besides Joe Dart on Dean Town… that’s a given.

 

[Michedelic]

 

[Evan J]

BEAUTIFUL thank you

 

[michael_t]

Moondance by Van Morrison with John Klingberg on bass...

 

[Evan J]

Moondance by Van Morrison with John Klingberg on bass...

Is this not an upright? This is the first time I’ve heard a Jazz bass sound like JAZZ bass.

 

[michael_t]

Into The Mystic by Van Morrison with John Klingberg on bass...

 

[michael_t]

Is this not an upright? This is the first time I’ve heard a Jazz bass sound like JAZZ bass.

Nope. John Klingberg, who played on two of Van Morrison's albums, always played a Fender Jazz with flats.

 

[Evan J]

Nope. John Klingberg, who played on two of Van Morrison's albums, always played a Fender Jazz with flats.

Sweet. Looks like I have more Klingberg in my future

 

[5StringBlues]

neck pickup only

 

[michael_t]

Sweet. Looks like I have more Klingberg in my future

The two Van Morrison albums he played on are "Moondance" and "His Band and the Street Choir".

There is a thread on him, in which John's daughter, Rachel, is one of the main contributors: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/john-klingberg.389174/

 

[Evan J]

neck pickup only

This tone is gorgeous

 

[Evan J]

Here is a nice one I stumbled across. Pete Turner from Elbow. One of my favorite bassists

 

[5StringBlues]

This tone is gorgeous

Joe Osbourne on bass.

Not sure but I think everything he recorded was on his J bass, front pickup only.

 

[Admiral Akbar]

Please don’t forget John Paul Jones.

Ramble On, Good times Bad Times, The Lemon Song, How Many More Times, Traveling Riverside Blues, Dazed and Confused… for starters.

 

[2F/2F]

A huge majority of everything that was played on a Jazz Bass prior to the mid ‘70s to the early ’80s. You’ll get a shorter list by asking what great bass tracks were recorded on a Jazz Bass with rounds. With the exception of some great ‘70s and ‘80s R&B and some (but very little) ’60s and ’70s rock-n-roll, there hasn’t been much great recorded on rounds, to my musical tastes.

All the main Fender basses were designed around high mass/tension/output flats; the pickups, the bridges, and the controls were designed to work with these strings. It’s rounds that are, from an engineering perspective, the strings that are “different” on a Fender bass. Certainly not by popularity for the last 45 years or so…but definitely by the original engineering parameters of the basses, which haven’t changed much since.

 

[faulknersj]

I put low tension labella flats on my J bass today… it was a revelation.

What players have recorded a Fender Jazz with flat wounds? The more genres the better. Links would be appreciated. Live or studio.

Besides Joe Dart on Dean Town… that’s a given.

I recorded this with my 73’ Jazz w/ flats

 

[Grinderman]

Into The Mystic by Van Morrison with John Klingberg on bass...

Besides a Burns Bison bass, Alan Henderson played a Fiesta Red Jazz Bass while he was with Them. Presumably, he used flats considering it was '64/'65-ish.

 

[Grinderman]

John Entwistle on My Generation.

John Paul Jones for a while. (Admiral Akbar called that, sorry)

 

[Fender_Bender]

Joe Osbourne on bass.

Not sure but I think everything he recorded was on his J bass, front pickup only.

Yes, front pickup only. Lakland checked his bass out for making his signature model and found the bridge pickup was either dead or very low output. Can’t remember which.

 

[bmusic]