Double Bass What Strings do the GODS use?

[LukeS]

Just for information:
I saw an interview with John Clayton a while back & he mentioned he uses Thomastik Superflexibles.I have used these in the past & they are a good all_purpose string-not as twangy as Spirocores.They only come in orch. & solo gauges,though.

I was at a masterclass with John Clayton about a year ago and he was using and recommending Evah Pirazzi's. Said they were good with the bow as well as pizz.

 

[stefaniw80401]

Here's a great youtube link of Edgar playing some Bach in a multi-camera up-close shoot. You can see the tail silks clearly. Are these spiros on the bottom and permanents on the top?

 

[Sam Dingle]

I know this is a really old thread but I was wondering if anyone knew what set Paul Chambers used (I know guts but what kind). I'm looking to put a full set of guts on one of my basses and wanted to know what the best full set was. Thanks

 

[bassfiddlesteve]

I know this is a really old thread but I was wondering if anyone knew what set Paul Chambers used (I know guts but what kind). I'm looking to put a full set of guts on one of my basses and wanted to know what the best full set was. Thanks

I remember reading that he used Golden Spirals.

- Steve

 

[Sam Dingle]

Thanks! Anyone know what strings Sam Jones uses? I assume Gut but I'm not 100% sure

 

[isolated]

Thanks! Anyone know what strings Sam Jones uses? I assume Gut but I'm not 100% sure

I'm fairly certain Sam stopped using anything widely available on the market a while back....

 

[Jake deVilliers]

I'm fairly certain Sam stopped using anything widely available on the market a while back....

Yeah, he's using the same strings as Ray and PC and Scott...

 

[TroyK]

Yeah, he's using the same strings as Ray and PC and Scott...

Yeah, but through a good medium they could answer the question "What strings do the gods use?"

 

[SirMjac28]

I think God uses Labella's but I heard somewhere Jesus uses Roto's

 

[stefaniw80401]

Yeah, but through a good medium they could answer the question "What strings do the gods use?"

Ouija board anyone?

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Yeah, but through a good medium they could answer the question "What strings do the gods use?"

LOL!!

 

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

Lemmy uses Rotosounds, like he always has, but that's a topic for "that other forum."

 

[BassmanI]

I may be wrong, but is Steve Rodby a Spiro user? I have his bass line and solo on Pat Metheny's "How Insensitive" from his 2002 "Speaking of Now Live" concert and the way Rodby sets up his amplification with both the piezo and the mic, you can hear a cockroach take a dump, and I suspect, based on how I've heard Spiros, that he also uses them.

 

[jloehrke]

I loved hearing Sam Jones playing at Boomers and the Angry Squire in NYC. He was using Spiros at that time, as was almost everyone I saw. All the guys who make their fame and "fortune" using guts had switched to Spiros - Milt Hinton, George Duvivier, Sam, Mingus, Percy Heath, Major Holley, Walter Booker, Wilbur Little, etc. The only one of my heroes still using gut was Slam.

 

[Sam Dingle]

Does anyone know when Ray Brown switched to steel string set up? I know he used guts but I'm just wondering when he stopped (or used a mix set?) I'm digging his tone on "The Trio" record and "Night Train" and was curious.

 

[Kai Sanchez]

Night train is definitely guts. Me thinks.

 

[Edvin]

Does anyone know when Ray Brown switched to steel string set up? I know he used guts but I'm just wondering when he stopped (or used a mix set?) I'm digging his tone on "The Trio" record and "Night Train" and was curious.

I know that the album "we get requests" from '64 is his first recording (or at least album) with steel strings

 

[BobDeRosa]

Ray - you've just made my day - MJ being a favourite of mine

I believe he uses Spiro Weichs now.