other basses chris squire has used

[iamthebassman]

FYI, he got the Lakland to replace the Fender Jazz which developed a warped neck.

 

[Ric5]

Chris also played a 70s 21 fret 4001 with triangle inlays. And he had an 8 string similar to this one here.
http://www.3dentourage.com/425/4008cs.htm

 

[KJung]

iirc those were commercially available with that modular electronics package as standard; i.e., whatever was "custom" about Squire's, it wasn't the electronics.

+1 That particular bass was more handmade version of those (awful) production basses. I had the pleasure of watching the progress of that bass as it was being put together by the guys (Jerry Proctor, etc.) in the old guitar shop at St. Louis music. It actually played very nicely!

 

[Rush Fan]

Just saw Yes last night w/Asia. GREAT show!

Squire used his mainstay Rick for the vast majority of the show
the Electra for a few songs
a black Rick on Machine Messiah
the Lakeland Bob Glaub on Time & A Word

If you haven't seen it yet Benoit & Oliver fill in so well. If you close your eyes you couldn't tell that Anderson or senior Wakemen were missing.

Also it was a great pleasure watching Asia. John Wetton still has chops.

 

[mccartneyman]

Just saw Yes last night w/Asia. GREAT show!

Squire used his mainstay Rick for the vast majority of the show
the Electra for a few songs
a black Rick on Machine Messiah
the Lakeland Bob Glaub on Time & A Word

If you haven't seen it yet Benoit & Oliver fill in so well. If you close your eyes you couldn't tell that Anderson or senior Wakemen were missing.

Also it was a great pleasure watching Asia. John Wetton still has chops.

It is indeed a great show. Saw it in Pittsburgh on 7/21. Chris appears to be using Ampeg cabs with two horns or midrange boxes on top, and there was a Marshall cab next to them. Basses are as described above.He's also using bass pedals that could bring down a small building if they went any lower.

Any questions I had about Benoit David being able to do justice to Jon Anderson's parts went away with the first song. He got stronger as the night went on and effortlessy covered the high notes -- including at the end of "Heart of the Sunrise," which closed the show beforee the "Starship Trooper" encore. He also is more of a showman than Jon, but not over the top. Oliver Wakeman looks and plays like his dad and is as tall as Squire -- a feat on iits own.

Chris's sound for the most part was good, but there were times when the RM Rick was all top and bottom, nothing in between the Electra had more definition, and the Glaub sounded just fine. I'm not sure what the difference was between the black Rick and at RM, but it seemed to be less clanky. ]

As I said, a great show, although when the fog machine kicked in, it was hard not to think "Spinal Tap."

Asia was good, but not overwhelming. Wetton still sings and plays great. I believe he's using a Zon (pic below)? Played with a thumb pick for the most part.

 

[PhR]

Squire might have used the non-reverse T-Bird on "Our Song" too, it sure sounds like one. T-Bird was also used on "Safe (Canon Song)" which also has the 8-string Rickenbacker.

The Bass Player article from the early nineties stated that Squire used the Telecaster on "Sweet Dreams" and "A Time And A Word".

 

[Doc Halo]

I've heard that he has used a Jazz Bass.

Apparently, he used one while working on Going for the One. No telling if the Jazz made it onto the recording, but cool nonetheless.

 

[PhR]

Apparently, he used one while working on Going for the One. No telling if the Jazz made it onto the recording, but cool nonetheless.

It's on "Parallels". The bonus track on "Drama" remaster, "Go Through This" has a similar Jazz-y sound and it was also on one track from "Talk", "Walls" IIRC.

EDIT: He at least uses the Jazz on these two live version and he has the tendency to use whatever bass he used in the studio version also live.

 

[By-Tor]

I just had to post this, this pic cracks me up.

 

[Ric5]

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[woodyng]

he played a martin fretless acoustic on the "unplugged" part of yes' anniversary tour a few years back,and another model of mouradian that he used on "mind drive" from that same anniversary show. he had a custom made tobias extended range 4 string,in addition to his tobias 5 string. there was a gibson les paul recording bass for awhile,used on "turn of the century".....the list goes on and on.....

 

[Kink Rimson]

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What is that 8-string he's playing there?

 

[Kitsapbass]

What is that 8-string he's playing there?

I think thats the one made by Eric Ranney...

 

[iguigd]

Yes indeed it is a custom made 8 string bass by a Chicago luthier Eric Ranney.

 

[iguigd]

of course i know chris pretty much always uses a rick. i have heard that he has used a few other basses before,but upon searching for his equipment listings,i couldn't find a thing.
i've seen him using a fender P,and also i heard that he used to use thunderbirds sometimes.does anyone know of any other basses he has used?

The Fender P is not a Fender P it is a Lakland Bob Glaub body (Inca Silver) with a Lakland jazz style neck (nut 1.5").

Chris also uses a 70's Fender Jazz bass.

 

[iguigd]

Was that a Wal three-neck bass he used on "Awaken"?

He was sponsored by Carvin for a while.

Chris dumped his 3 neck WAL for a Japanese copy of the same bass. His original Wal bass is sitting on a wall (no pun intended) at the Hardrock Cafe in New York.

 

[squirefan]

I didn't see it mentioned, but the body of the Mouradian is his initials (CS).

 

[LHbassist]

I can never get over the size of that guy's hands. I mean look at those friggen fingers, they're like bratwursts or something. And yet to be able to move them that fast.

Several years ago, My best friend here in Reno, friend who has become friends with Chris and Alan White, invited me to attend a Yes Rehearsal in Reno, downtown at the old convention center. I'm a luthier, as well as a bassist...and ironically, I was rebuilding a 'project' Rickenbacker bass for a friend in New York, and wanted to bring it to the rehearsal to have Chris sign it. Well, there was a problem with the finish, and I never did bring the bass. I did get to meet Chris though, and my buddy Gary said to Chris- "Hey Chris, look at Dave's hands!" I'm a big guy- 6'-2" and about 250, and I'm known for my large hands...Chris put his hand right against mine- his fingers are huge, and about 1/16" longer than mine! I think Rick necks feel like toys to me, too thin...but my jazz basses are small too...and my upright is about 1.5" at the nut. I wondered how he liked the small necked basses....hmmmm.... He played, at that rehearsal, a silver Lakland Bob Glaub, in addition to the Rick, and there indeed WAS a weird Albert Lee shaped bass, might have been the Electra MPC bass. I did not get to see him play that one. It didn't matter what bass he played, he played great at the rehearsal. A nice memory, of meeting some legendary musicians. P.S. Steve Howe was really weird and aloof...seemed quite unfriendly and dark. Drummer Alan White, Jon Anderson, and Chris seemed like any cool musician that you'd meet from another band, just regular guys...very cool.

 

[David Vector]

Yep, Drama... Incredible bass sounds throughout. Except Run Through the Light, which always gets skipped as soon as Mr Horn starts singing...

I have nothing against Mr Horn, but the vocals to that song..

That was my favorite track from Drama when I first heard it circa 1989 (despite Horn's sometimes dodgy vocals, LOL). I remember thinking what a departure Squire's fretless work was on that song and how it didn't sound like him at all. Then almost two decades later, someone clued me in to the fact that Trevor Horn, not Squire, played the fretless on that track.

One bass of Chris' that I don't think was mentioned was the red Mike Tobias 5-string used on the Big Generator album and seen in the video for "Love Will Find a Way." Sounded rather wicked with the B string dropped to an A for the title track on that album.

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[Ric5]

Here he is playing the fender ... looks like a modifed 51 p-bass



He gets a real rick tone here also.