Waylon Jennings' Bassist

[NikNik]

Was having a gander at The  Fender Telecaster Book this morning and spotted the attached. The photo is of Waylon Jennings' band, circa 1973, and the bassist appears to be sporting a modded stack-pot Jazz. Check the pups......

[Hobbayne]

Jennings himself was the bass player in Buddy Holly's band. He gave up his seat on the plane exactly 60 years and three days ago. 😞

[NikNik]

2 minutes ago, Hobbayne said:

Jennings himself was the bass player in Buddy Holly's band. He gave up his seat on the plane exactly 60 years and three days ago. 😞

Wow...... never knew either of those things!

[Steve Browning]

. and his last words to BH were something like "and I hope your little ol' plane crashes" after he was ribbed about the bus constantly breaking down.

[chris_b]

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Edited February 6, 2019 by chris_b

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 3, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[chris_b]

It looks like a stretched out P bass pickup. The early 70's was a big time for experimenting with gear.

[NikNik]

1 hour ago, Jus Lukin said:

Hard to see what's going on there! Seems like a widely spaced P-bass type arrangement, doesn't seem to be sending the coils to separate outputs, unless there's another cable just out of shot.

The pickups actually look like a Joe Barden jazz which has been chopped in half, although I doubt they were made then, and wouldn't work sawn in half anyway!

That bass has grabbed my attention for some reason, tried a bit of googling, but come up with nothing.

They do look like a set of blades, don't they? The only one I recall making them around that time was Bill Lawrence.