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Flea bass no more

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[quote name='BassManKev' post='269344' date='Aug 25 2008, 10:47 AM']i love anthony's comment 'don't give that man an out of tune bass' :)

you sure it was just drop D?? it sounded like everything wasn't in tune[/quote]

Might be right actually.....

The drop D thing just made sense, a guitar tech giving a rock star a totally out of tune bass didn't :huh:

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[quote name='kevbass' post='269358' date='Aug 25 2008, 11:17 AM']Hmm, thats the first time Ive seen flea lose his temper! What a waste of a perfectly good bass, to smash it up because it was wrongly tuned? Mind you im sure that graph neck will be just fine :huh:[/quote]

hmmmm.....

wonder if it's the one Beedster, Me and Artisan owned !! :)

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[quote name='Marcus' post='269535' date='Aug 25 2008, 03:21 PM']Flea's next bass ?


[url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Clover_Stock_Apeiron_H.4.html"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_sp...peiron_H.4.html[/url][/quote]

they're those delano hybrids, aren't they? i played a shuker single cut with some of those in whilst i was were, they sounded great! so good that when my dad played them he ordered his shuker with them in.

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Surely flea can tune his own bass? I'm sure we've all had moments when we've had to tune during a song. I know I have. I'm perhaps too old to understand as I've seen it all before, but smashing his bass like that makes him look a bit of a drama queen.

I though his Fender is Jazz actually a very faded shell pink rather than white, which accounts for its high price due to the rarity of the colour. or is that a different one? A CIJ flea sig model would be cool, but I wouldn't buy it. I'd definitely buy a signature CIJ Jean-luc pickguard daphne blue '66 RI mustang bass with aged pearl pickguard & lollypop tuners though. If fender would make one that is...

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[quote name='BassManKev' post='269996' date='Aug 26 2008, 08:56 AM']his jazz is a salmon pink is it not???

i dont think he smashed the modulus up in real anger, i think it was just a show for the crowd coz he f***ed up the first song[/quote]
No such colour as Salmon Pink. It was a bunch of guitars/basses that were resprayed Fiesta Red by the UK importer that subsequently faded.

There was once a very famous bass player in a band famous for smashing guitars who used to smash basses when they played a wrong note.

There was another bass player who smashed his bass up and was photographed in the act, becoming an iconic album cover.

Its not new :)

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[quote name='E_MaN' post='270260' date='Aug 26 2008, 02:00 PM']Flea never played a MM on record apart from when using a 5....I think for BSSM he used a Spector?[/quote]

Not sure which album but he definitely used a Spector NS2 on one or two of the earlier releases....

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[quote name='E_MaN' post='270260' date='Aug 26 2008, 02:00 PM']Flea never played a MM on record apart from when using a 5....I think for BSSM he used a Spector?[/quote]

My recollection is that he was using Alembics for recording at that time, with a Wal as well. Time to dust off my Funky Monks VHS...

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he used a wal for pretty much every song on bssm afaik, think he used a stingray 5 for one of the songs that needed a low b, cant rememer which off top of my head

what did he use of OHM?? i know he toured with a stingray, but i'm not sure what he recorded with?

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[quote name='BassManKev' post='270391' date='Aug 26 2008, 04:32 PM']he used a wal for pretty much every song on bssm afaik, think he used a stingray 5 for one of the songs that needed a low b, cant rememer which off top of my head

what did he use of OHM?? i know he toured with a stingray, but i'm not sure what he recorded with?[/quote]

an Alembic I think?

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One hot minute was recorded with an Alembic Epic, apart from Aeroplane in which he used a Stingray (read this in an interview)

Someone mentioned the Jazz he used on the Californication tour/video, this was actually stolen whilst during the tour. From the top of my head the one that he's been using recently was a gift from a record exec (I think)

Still waiting for the story though!

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[quote]* Alembic Epic: Flea used an Alembic Epic bass comprising a flame maple topped mahogany body and ebony fingerboard to record almost all of the One Hot Minute album, with the exception of the songs Aeroplane and Pea. This guitar can be glimpsed in the second video for the single My Friends, showing the band recording the album in The Sound Factory studios.
* Fender Jazz Bass: Although he primarily used his signature Modulus Flea Bass during the recording sessions for By The Way, Flea also used a 1961 Shell Pink Fender Jazz Bass to record certain songs such as Body Of Water. This bass was later used in parts of the Can’t Stop video, and for all of Stadium Arcadium. This 1961 Jazz is the only known specimen in Shell Pink (the rarest custom color) though it now appears orange-peach, due to the deeply yellowed lacquer coating over the underlying pink paint. Flea has since been playing live with this instrument during the touring and promotional duties for Stadium Arcadium.
* Fender Precision Bass: Used as a live back-up on the Freaky Styley album tour.
* Modulus Flea Bass: Flea used various models of his signature bass in different colour finishes for recording and tours through the years 1997 to 2004. The most notable examples of Flea’s use of this bass include a blue flake finished model which was his primary instrument on the Californication world tour, and featured a rectangular sticker just below the bridge saying; “a flea still drinks the blood of those who wouldn’t harm a flea”. He also used a silver flake model in the video for Can’t Stop, which was his drop-D tuned bass on the Californication and By The Way tours. Perhaps most notably, Flea used a custom model nicknamed the “Punk Bass”, which was painted like the French national flag and covered in graphics featuring his favourite punk bands, which was his main instrument on the By The Way world tour. His newest bass is a sunburst Flea Bass with black pickguard. It has the same spec as all of his other Modulus Basses and is currently being used for the Stadium Arcadium tour.
* Music Man Cutlass I: Flea’s one and only Cutlass was covered in pink and green tape and paint, and further covered with stickers. He recorded The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Freaky Styley albums with the Cutlass, and he also used it on tour extensively. These basses were identical to the classic Stingray model but featured a graphite neck made by Modulus.
* Music Man Sterling: Glimpsed in the original My Friends video.
* Music Man StingRay: He started using Stingrays somewhere between the Uplift Mofo Party Plan tour and the recording of Mother’s Milk; They were both black, one with a maple fingerboard and a sticker saying ‘crunch’ on the upper body horn used in the Show Me Your Soul video, and the other with a rosewood fingerboard, later used to record Aeroplane on One Hot Minute and used in that song’s video. Flea’s only use of a five-string bass was a black StingRay5 used to record Funky Monks and Righteous And The Wicked on Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and in the music video for Under the Bridge.
* Sigma Acoustic: Used to record the bass and vocals song Pea.
* Spector NS: To record Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Flea used a black NS with chrome hardware, dot inlays, J-J pickups and stickers of two figures on the instrument’s body horns, and subsequently used a new black NS with gold hardware, block inlays and a J-P pickup configuration on all of Mother’s Milk.
* Taylor Acoustic: Used to record the song Road Trippin’.
* Wal Mach II: Flea used this blue custom guitar to record most of Blood Sugar Sex Magik, with the only exceptions being the two songs Funky Monks

and Righteous And The Wicked. He still owns this bass, except it is now covered with stickers that exhibit the faces of people Flea admires.[/quote]

some info I found...

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[quote name='GЯДИК' post='270441' date='Aug 26 2008, 05:30 PM']some info I found...[/quote]

Yeah that looks spot on that. I've had so many arguments with people on the RHCP forums about Fleas gear, stuff like people saying that he DEFINATLY used a stingray to record BSSM, when all you have to do is a little reading to find out the truth (like interviews which state otherwise!) :)

Need to do a bit of reading about that Jazz though, I'm 99% sure one of his jazzes got stolen partway though the Californication tour. Would explain why it suddenly stopped appearing at concerts, unless it got found?

EDIT: Had a look around, not found 'proof' as such but did find someone on talk bass making reference to the stolen jazz

[quote]no mention of the bass he used to record soul to squeeze there... any ideas?? it wasnt the wal i dont think[/quote]

Well Soul To Squeeze was part of the BSSM sessions so he probably used the Wal. Might not sound like it but you have to bear in mind that the playing style is far more mellow than the other songs on that album.

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[quote name='BassManKev' post='270695' date='Aug 27 2008, 12:50 AM']hmm

in the video he sure dont use a wal, and i dunno just doesnt sound like one to me, im gunna have to try n look it up...[/quote]

I'm just speculating really, if most of the album was recorded with the Wal, that's where I'd put my money.

Also bear in mind that the bass used in the video has absolutely no bearing on what was used during the recording. Also remember that the video was done well after the the album came out and after John Frusciante left the band.

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[quote]I'm just speculating really, if most of the album was recorded with the Wal, that's where I'd put my money.

Also bear in mind that the bass used in the video has absolutely no bearing on what was used during the recording. Also remember that the video was done well after the the album came out and after John Frusciante left the band.[/quote]
yup i know that, still havnt found out...

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