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[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1473446493' post='3130379']
J J Burnel, loved the tone on the early Stranglers stuff but can't imagine using it on anything else other than Stranglers covers.
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Similar to Lemmy. Astounding bass sound, but useless unless you are playing Motorhead covers.

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Joe Osborne.

I love the tone he gets on everything he did but I would never think to use a jazz bass strung with flats played with a plectrum...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGSHMgbB0E[/media]


hmm...

To my right there's a Fender Jazz... in front of me there's a set of LaBella deep talking flats and there's a pick in my pocket...

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Mike Rutherford. Some of the sounds he gets on the early Genesis stuff are sublime but not suitable for filling out the bottom end of a guitar/bass/drums covers trio :)

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Squire and Martin Brierly (Greenslade - Cactus Choir) both have great growly Rickenbacker sounds that I love in context but would not seek to mimic. Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Anthony Jackson and a hundred Fodera players all have great 'don't go there' tones.

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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1473591020' post='3131382']
Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Anthony Jackson and a hundred Fodera players all have great 'don't go there' tones.
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That's another good example for me too with the typical Fodera sound. I think Janek Gwizdala for example, has a beautifully pure tone which is perfect for the kind of melodic solo playing he often does but it would be completely lost and out of place in my rock covers band.

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[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1473457685' post='3130500']
Mike Rutherford. Some of the sounds he gets on the early Genesis stuff are sublime but not suitable for filling out the bottom end of a guitar/bass/drums covers trio :)
[/quote]I loved the sound he got when he was using a Rick circa Selling England but the bottom end left the room.

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JJ Burnell - love it in the context of the Stranglers but would never work for anything I've ever done. Oh, and the bridge pickup on a jazz, period. Like a goose farting in the fog as Billy Connoly once said

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[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1473455621' post='3130477']
Joe Osborne.

I love the tone he gets on everything he did but I would never think to use a jazz bass strung with flats played with a plectrum...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGSHMgbB0E[/media]


hmm...

To my right there's a Fender Jazz... in front of me there's a set of LaBella deep talking flats and there's a pick in my pocket...
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This. Precisely this. Yet I have definitely moved in that direction as time has passed. But on a Precision. And except the pick. Can't use one...

Edited by Telebass

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