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Sheehan fans - LOOK!
- Thread starter Juan Count
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hes always said the opposite. he likes some grind from the frets in his setup. maybe the bass just got beatup enough that he couldnt get super low action anymore and just never opted for a refret.
no way sheehan played w high action. u can hear the clank in his sound. Plus the stuff hes playing, its damn impressive with low action. I cant imagine anyone playing those shred w a high action setup
I remember an interview in a magazine a long time ago when he was touring with Malmsteen. He said people try playing his bass and rig and never get the same results as him because everything is tailored for his approach to the bass. All the modifications were done on the road and in hotel rooms by trial and error.
Couple shots of The Wife that I took in August, 1985, at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Talas was opening for Yngwie. Interesting to see the progression of that bass's appearance.
Great pix! Taken before he did the home improvement MOTO tool job between the last few frets. He said he got that idea from YM.
I know it has been a while since a comment was left on here, but I seriously gotta get my hands on one of these reissues, where can you get them though? I have looked all over the net and can't find any.
I thought The Wife's neck pickup was a single coil. The pics in the original post show a humbucker.
What's werid is that there is even DiMarzio pickups in it, because his original bass should have been the stock Fender P pickup with a Gibson EB-0 pickup at the neck I think, the added neck pickup was because he really dug the sound and low end of the Epiphone Rivoli bass.
It wasn't until he bought his backup Fender that he put DiMarzio pickups in a bass, I think the original wife remained with the Fender and Gibson pickups til this day.
I don't care though, I like the reissue how it is in the pics, does anybody at all know where I can get one?
I noticed a couple of Billy Sheehan inspired basses at Ikebe. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]:
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Personally, I don't see either of these as "reissues" - the descriptions don't mention Billy by name, just as "that player" - but certainly they take their inspiration from The Wife. The description of the one the OP posted even pointed out that the upper frets aren't scalloped and that it only has a mono output.
I haven't seen the natural finish one with the Tele neck in almost a year, so it looks like it was a pretty limited release, the sunburst one is still available...
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Personally, I don't see either of these as "reissues" - the descriptions don't mention Billy by name, just as "that player" - but certainly they take their inspiration from The Wife. The description of the one the OP posted even pointed out that the upper frets aren't scalloped and that it only has a mono output.
I haven't seen the natural finish one with the Tele neck in almost a year, so it looks like it was a pretty limited release, the sunburst one is still available...
that spot is actually a piece of wood used to fill-in where Billy had an original Bad Ass bridge installed. The original design of the Bad Ass bridge was recessed into the body.. Billy decided to go back to standard bridge and had guys at valley Arts Guitars, do the repair work. I have recently finished my WIFE replica
