Short Scale Bass Player

[actooon]

He, folx - Alan Lanchaster (Status Quo) plays Fender Mustang and Musicmaster basses. I play bass since 1982, but NOW I play short 30'' - it's the great sound for boogie and blues! I never play 30'' bass with fingers, always with plectrum (better action and harder sound).

 

[actooon]

In 2001 I had fantastic Eko Kadett bass - shortscale (maybe my age - 1967). Very massive sound, good neck, bass with heart and feeling. I'm very sorry for this bass.

 

[bryan bailey]

Watt plays a shorty often

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[sonicvi]

Trevor Bolder

 

[Petethebassman]

Nobody has yet mentioned Andy Fraser? I really love his playing with Free: wonderfully understated yet funky and the tone he got from his Gibson EB-3 through the Marshall stacks is sooo gorgeous. He's without a doubt one of my main bass influences. Here's a youtube clip from the 1970 Isle Of Wight festival of them playing my all-time favourite Free tune, "Be My Friend".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leGAYNe2UzU

 

[Sneckumhaw]

Also Chris Murphy of Sloan. I think he uses a Mustang or something, whatever Bolder has in that pic with the Bowie/Ronson group.

 

[The Golden Boy]

A dude named McCartney.

 

[Subsong]

I'm on the lookout for a short scale, either an EB-3 or a Fender Music Master, preferably in terrible condition ready to be fixed up.

 

[KromaatiKlauun]

Eddie Shaw of The Monks(the 60s band), great fuzz also

 

[lunarpollen]

Wally Allen of the Pretty Things used a Fender Mustang bass

 

[Parabolic Box]

A dude named McCartney.

Pfft. Obviously not an important or influential musician to take 27 posts to mention.

Seriously, the first name that popped into my head was his.

 

[jollygiantchris]

Didn't John Entwistle record something on a Longhorn? Remember reading a blurb about it in a bassplayer or bassguitar a year or 2 ago.

 

[Thangfish]

Allen Woody, one of my favorites.

 

[Parabolic Box]

Didn't John Entwistle record something on a Longhorn? Remember reading a blurb about it in a bassplayer or bassguitar a year or 2 ago.

My Generation. Except the solo because the strings kept snapping.

 

[Sneckumhaw]

My kind of thread. How often do you see Wally Allen, Trevor Bolder and Eddie Shaw in one thread?

 

[The Lurker]

Robert DeLeo recorded a lot of Stone Temple Pilots songs with shorties-- mustang, limgar, orlando-- and used one live for their unplugged show.

e.g.

 

[actooon]

I think that Gibson EB-0 is short and EB-3 is long.

I played EB-0 (short) in 1993. Fantastic sound! Big "cigarette box" pick up (neck).

But I never saw FRETLESS 30'' bass - God knows why... (hahaha)...

 

[The Lurker]

I think that Gibson EB-0 is short and EB-3 is long.

I played EB-0 (short) in 1993. Fantastic sound! Big "cigarette box" pick up (neck).

But I never saw FRETLESS 30'' bass - God knows why... (hahaha)...

nope... the difference between an EB-0 and an EB-3 is mostly that the -3 has a bridge pickup and the 0 doesn't. The best-known versions of each bass are short-scale, but Gibson did eventually produce long-scale versions of each-- the EB-0L and EB-3L.

 

[pbass2]

I just started playing with a short scale recently, I've had an Ibanez Mikro for about a month now and love it, even with all the guff I take for playing a shorty out.

Whoever is giving you guff for playing a shorty is a moron and knows nothing about what makes a great bass sound. Short scale basses have a very special quality and can deliver some of the punchiest, fattest bass ever. A good sounding shorty with flats is a must-have in my book. My #1 is Jerry Jones Longhorn, and it goes to every session I do with more than one bass. It sits in the mix as well as any P, just in a different way. Producers LOVE it. Mustangs, EBs--all goody good . . .

And that pic of Trevor with the Spiders is too cool for words . . .

 

[pbass2]

But I never saw FRETLESS 30'' bass - God knows why... (hahaha)...

Then you've never heard one of these:

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