'60, '61? I've never seen Pino with this one, but why wouldn't he have one?
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Pino on a stacked-knob Jazz
- Thread starter lowfreqgeek
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Camera work made me dizzy. Great song and musicians . Bass was thin imho. He should have played the P . It was sitting right there.
I'm liking the bass tone, actually. But I agree about the camera work, and I find this with most live performance videos.
Great find!
I listened again with my good earphones. Sounds better than I thought. But it's still lacking something . Seems narrow like the full range isn't being allowed to come through. Not full enough. It is very punchy . But Pinos playing is great.
I definitely like hearing more definition in bass tones and I'm sure you'll agree, that comes easily with our Stingrays….
And that's what I like so much about the Fralin/John East combination that I have in my Jazz-style bass. Very defined, no mistaking what the bass is….
However, for whatever reason, I found myself really liking the overall feel of the tune and to me, the bass tone and its place in the mix was enjoyable.
And hey, we all gotta agree…
It's Pino!….
I've heard those Fender Custom Shop Pino Paladino signature 1960 Jazz Basses run around $25,000 to $30,000.
wait - what happened to the fretless stingray?! 
I'm wondering why I wouldn't have one...
OK, this is nitpicky, but this isn't the take you're hearing - it's a video shoot with the recorded track as a guide for their pantomiming. And yet, the camera panning is criminally bad, somehow. At 0:54, the singer is clearly "not singing" (visibly) while he's still singing audibly, if you catch my drift.
Pino may have played a Squier on the actual recording. OK, probably not.
That aside (no, it really doesn't matter, it's just my production person coming out and noticing details), very cool tune. as you were....
Pino may have played a Squier on the actual recording. OK, probably not.
That aside (no, it really doesn't matter, it's just my production person coming out and noticing details), very cool tune. as you were....
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There were definitely a few moments that would highly suggest it wasn't the recorded take.
Still, the tune and performance and band are fantastic. Worth indulging the imagination, if you will.
That's actually very much true, and could have very much been another bass on the video.
Way back when in another time, I used my Alembic bass on a tune we recorded, but the video producer didn't like the looks of the Alembic and insisted I use my Fender Jazz bass for the video shoot. And funny, I don't remember anyone saying, "Hey bass tone doesn't match up with the bass in that video".
(wow, I had forgotten about that video until now. I've no idea if there's even a copy around. I just searched, it's not on YouTube. No shock there....
)So "guilty as charged" on that front.....
That's actually very much true, and could have very much been another bass on the video.
Way back when in another time, I used my Alembic bass on a tune we recorded, but the video producer didn't like the looks of the Alembic and insisted I use my Fender Jazz bass for the video shoot. And funny, I don't remember anyone saying, "Hey bass tone doesn't match up with the bass in that video".
(wow, I had forgotten about that video until now. I've no idea if there's even a copy around. I just searched, it's not on YouTube. No shock there....
So "guilty as charged" on that front.....
I've tried to stay out of video shoots (mostly successful over the years), but I've tracked songs that later got a video with a stand-in bass player using their own, totally different, bass for the video.
That video I'm referring to was a band project somewhere in the early to middle 80s.
Heck, these days, artists that are recording albums will come in with 2-3 friends with iPhones or GoPros filming various parts of the sessions and putting them out there on YouTube. Its gotten to the point of telling the players (especially me!!) to "dress decently, you might be in a video!"....
I hear what you're saying about the vocalist not matching up with the video but the drummer is right on it from the beginning. Might be the video of the actual basic track with the vocalist overdubbing later.
