My good friend and Voodoo Blues bassist Ant thinks guitarists look funny when they play bass. While not entirely false, I'm here to refute that statement as best I can, as a guitarist who sometimes plays bass (hey, at least I use my fingers).
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| The pic that started it all, Bob Dylan with a Jazz bass (identical to my dad's, in fact). A little big on him, but not bad. |
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| An very cool-looking George Harrison with a block-inlay Jazz during the Abbey Road sessions. |
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| Jimi on a white Jazz bass, jamming with Johnny Winter. He didn't even restring it! Still picks like a guitarist, though. |
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| Jimi recording some bass parts in the studio, with a P-bass, Fender Dual Showman stack, and a Sunn head on top of that. Jimi played a lot of bass on the Experience's three studio albums, including much of Electric Ladyland. |
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| By far the coolest-looking bass-playing guitarist, Keith Richards. He actually played some of the groovier Stones basslines, including "Sympathy For The Devil" & "Live With Me". |
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| More Keef, from the Sympathy documentary sessions. Looks like a real bassist! |
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| Speaking of Stones, here's Ronnie Wood playing bass with the Jeff Beck Group. He also played some extra-funky bass on the Stones' "Emotional Rescue". |
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| A young James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, playing an Epiphone Rivoli semi-hollow bass with the Yardbirds. |
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| Speaking of Yardbirds, Clapton might've been God on bass, too. |
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| Fellow Bluesbreaker alum Peter Green, with a Fender Bass VI while leading early Fleetwood Mac (Ok, maybe not a real bass, but still pretty cool). |
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| Another Bass VI, here with John Lennon and Yoko. |
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| A young David Gilmour (left) playing a P-bass, while Roger Waters strums acoustic. Gilmour actually played bass on many of Pink Floyd's studio recordings, including "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", "One of These Days", "Young Lust", and fretless on "Hey You". |
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| Late-70s David Gilmour playing an Jaydee fretless bass with Kate Bush |
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| Possibly that same concert, this time Gilmour playing a fretted Wal bass. |
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| A very young Waylon Jennings (far left) playing bass with Buddy Holly |
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| The King played bass, even while he served... |
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| ...and knew how to color-coordinate. |
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| EVH played bass on a Sammy Hagar solo album, and taught Wolfgang a few things, i'm sure. |
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| Tom Petty played a Danelectro longhorn bass with The Traveling Wilburys... |
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...and thumped a Hofner with Mudcrutch in 2008 Multi-instrumentalist Lenny Kravitz with a P-bass in front of a vintage Helios console
Last but certainly not least, I leave you with a Prince bass solo. Case closed. |
The bass shown in the photo of Dave Gilmour and Kate Bush is a Jaydee made by John Diggins in Birmingham, England.
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