Pick players using a jazz bass?

[emesen]

I have both a HW1 and a USA Jazz and both do sound quite good with a pick, which seems to be the consensus here... So... worry not, buy a JAZZ!

 

[lorenk]

He uses a pick for sure, but typically he used to play a Stingray. Nowadays he plays a vintage P Bass...

Uh...I have never heard of Matt using a Stingray...not saying you are wrong I would just like to see proof, cuz everything I have seen he uses Fenders, or that new god-awful custom bass with his name scrawled across the fretboard.




on topic:

My SX with 1/4 lb'er + pick = awesome, ballsy tone. Mmmm....

 

[fourstringburn]

While most bassist use their fingers to pluck, strummin with a pick sounds cool too! it actually give you more clarity and volume at the same levels as finger picking, but the warmer soulful sound is more apparent when finger picking. even Steve Harris claims to use a pick in the studio for certain sounds ( I read this in a 1992 Bass player article). other bassists who use picks on occasion or otherwise.. John Entwistle,Geezer Butler,John Paul Jones,Paul McCartney,Carol Kaye,Roger Glover, Bob Daisley,Ian Hill,Greg Lake,Chris Squire,Noel Redding,Phil Lynott,Dave Hope,Dave Ellefson,Cliff Williams,Jason Newsted,Rachel Bolan,Eddie Jackson...

Use what you think sounds best... not what other say!

 

[iamthebassman]

I love the sound of a jazz with a pick !

Yep, that's the tone that really inspired me to take up bass. In high school I was a huge Dee Murray fan, the tone he got on those old EJ albums was fantastic. Most of it(at least the 70s stuff) was a Jazz played with a pick.

 

[Din Of Win]

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The recording is done with my MIM Fender Jazz and a pick. Lame-o DIY recording with literally a mic in the middle of the room. Vocal tracks were added afterwards and are a little too forward in the mix but meh, whatevs... that's punk for ya!

*The video on there is with my ATK(obviously). I tend to use the ATK live, but i like the Jazz on recordings.



EDIT: haha keep in mind we've only been together for 2 months and some change. That vid was our second show and in front of a large audience... we're usually not that stiff.

EDIT #2: FWIW i use the black Dunlop picks... 1.0mm iirc.

 

[iamthebassman]

Use what you think sounds best... not what other say!

Yep, couldn't agree more. I have to laugh when, on a weekly basis, someone starts a new "Pick vs Fingers" thread here. I've made a (somewhat)decent living playing bass for a couple decades now, and I have never played a song without a pick. So I do find it funny when people say you have to learn to play with your fingers so you can play every style in the book. Personally, I never wanted to play every style, just MY style, and the tone I love comes from playing with a pick. Your mileage may vary, and that's fine by me.
End of sermon.

 

[Idiotpod]

20 seconds in to this clip.

Fender Aerodyne Jazz played with a green thin bass pick. Don't know the brand of it or the mm.

 

[winterburn69]

John Paul Jones used a pick sometimes, on stuff like The Song Remains The Same, and rocked a Jazz live until like 1975.

Mark Hoppus of blink-182 and +44 only uses a pick, has been using "Jazz" basses for over a decade now, but his aren't really Jazz basses, they have a P neck and pickup.

 

[Jim Carr]

Noel Redding was mentioned. Here is a classic BBC clip:

 

[FatCity]

I think a Jazz sounds huge with a pick. I highly reccomend it.

 

[RTL]

On a sub gig last friday, I played my Elrick New Jazz Standard 5 with a pick for a few songs.. Sounded killer, no matter how blasphemous it may have been.

 

[dougjwray]

And another Noel Redding clip.

 

[Mr. Mig]

You should try one out and set the amp to your liking and see if it picking gives you a sound you like.

 

[JTE]

Jazz bass with a pick? Mr. Joe Osborn. He's used a Jazz since Fender gave him one in 1960 (last I heard, it still had the same set of LaBella flats on it too), and the Lakland Joe Osborn signature bass since about 2000. ALWAYS with a pick, no bridge pickup. Hear him at the Lakland site, and on:

"Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" and "Wedding Bell Blues" by The 5th Dimension
"Only Livin' Boy In New York", "Bridge Over Troubled Waters", "El Condor Pasa" (well, the whole "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" album, but those three tracks are my favorite bass bits) by Simon & Garfunkle
All the Carpenters' recordings, buncha Neil Diamond's early work (especially "Holly Holy"), and all those Grassroots records.

Just another take on a Jazz with a pick.

John

 

[kski94]

Grant brandell of UnderOATH.

 

[Photoman1969]

Noel Redding was mentioned. Here is a classic BBC clip:

Oh man...that is so right.

 

[Photoman1969]

Jazz bass with a pick? Mr. Joe Osborn.

"Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension

I've been listening to this one a whole lot lately. Excellent work.

From 1969...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwGNrpX8KCM

 

[bigntasty]

Mel Schacher of Grand Funk Railroad played a modified late '60s Jazz Bass with a pick from the start of GFR up to the mid '70s when he changed his sound. (He's playing Zon now).

 

[bucephylus]

Jazz bass with a pick? Mr. Joe Osborn.

FTW

How does this thread go to 4 pages before JO gets mentioned?

 

[FloydianAnimal]

Uh...I have never heard of Matt using a Stingray...not saying you are wrong I would just like to see proof, cuz everything I have seen he uses Fenders, or that new god-awful custom bass with his name scrawled across the fretboard.




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My SX with 1/4 lb'er + pick = awesome, ballsy tone. Mmmm....

Hmmm, can't find anything. I've seen a few discussion son here where people claim he's used a Stingray live and in the studio at times, but can't seem to find any pictures or anything. Clearly he's using a Fender J in one of those videos and when I saw them last fall he was playing a vintage P the whole time... guess I'm wrong, sorry