Fuzzbass2000 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) Edited April 22, 2020 by Fuzzbass2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 just Fender Precision isn't it? Fender do a signature model, at a price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzbass2000 Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 1 minute ago, PaulWarning said: just Fender Precision isn't it? Fender do a signature model, at a price. That's what I thought at first but I don't think so. It looks real small on him and there's things about the headstock / body /scratch plate that don't look right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 He always played a P bass and has his own signiature model. Admittedly the head looks different in this video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I don’t know about the bass, but with the short blond hair he looks like the lovechild of commander Ed Straker and Klaus Kinski. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanOwens Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 That's not a standard Fender Precision, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzJzF Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Pretty sure it's an early (lawsuit headstock) G&L SB1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 6 minutes ago, OzJzF said: Pretty sure it's an early (lawsuit headstock) G&L SB1 Definitely this 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 G&L SB1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicVibes Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Tasty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeystrange Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 He stopped playing Fenders later in his career as he was unimpressed with their decline in quality in the ‘80s. As others have said, I believe this is a G&L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Nada Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Dee Dee used ESPs on his latter Ramones years, with some pretty 80s looking colours and shapes (one was Thunderbird ish shaped). I've read that Johnny Ramone hated them as he felt they ruined the band image, which probably just encouraged Dee Dee to use them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleat Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Gear4Music ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzbass2000 Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 10 hours ago, OzJzF said: Pretty sure it's an early (lawsuit headstock) G&L SB1 Cheers - I think that's the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 11 hours ago, Fuzzbass2000 said: G&L SB1 second version like the one I am selling in the sales thread 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidder652003 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 23/04/2020 at 00:32, gareth said: G&L SB1 second version like the one I am selling in the sales thread Back of the Net! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 22/04/2020 at 17:53, joeystrange said: He stopped playing Fenders later in his career as he was unimpressed with their decline in quality in the ‘80s. Yeah, you certainly need quality instruments to play your four notes clearly! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, ubit said: Yeah, you certainly need quality instruments to play your four notes clearly! to be fair, it's nearer 8 when when they do a key change 😀 I read somewhere he had a really high action, probably something to do with the way he hammered away at the strings all down strokes (something I can't do), so maybe he could get it lower with a G&L? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 A plank of wood with 4 nails and strings attached would be to good an instrument....what an awful racket, I can't see why guitar companies endorse such clowns, he's never progressed as a musician, as you can tell i'm not a fan. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubit Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, thebigyin said: A plank of wood with 4 nails and strings attached would be to good an instrument....what an awful racket, I can't see why guitar companies endorse such clowns, he's never progressed as a musician, as you can tell i'm not a fan. I actually have a lot of time for the Ramones. They were a great band for their time and influenced many people. Dee Dee is no Johnny Ramone on the vocals right enough. Some of the first songs I learned were Ramones songs. Nice easy pumping away on two strings. I slag them off purely to be hilarious and am in no way serious about downing The R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Ramones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 24 minutes ago, ubit said: I actually have a lot of time for the Ramones. They were a great band for their time and influenced many people. Dee Dee is no Johnny Ramone on the vocals right enough. Some of the first songs I learned were Ramones songs. Nice easy pumping away on two strings. I slag them off purely to be hilarious and am in no way serious about downing The R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Ramones! Same here, great band, to me they’ve always been The Beach Boys with distorted guitars, great, simple, short pop songs. Quality band. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 4 minutes ago, Lozz196 said: Same here, great band, to me they’ve always been The Beach Boys with distorted guitars, great, simple, short pop songs. Quality band. they showed a lot of people, me included, you didn't have to be a great musician to write songs and be in a band, a breath of fresh air after the prog rock years, nobody stripped Rock and Roll back to it's basics like they did 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky L Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 The first Ramones album was a perfect place for a young punk wanting to play bass to start. With the bass panned to one side of the recording and guitar to the other on my old record player, I could have one or the other faded out so I could either learn the part listening to Dee Dee and then progressing to playing along with Johnny's side up and Dee Dee off 😊 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicVibes Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 23 hours ago, thebigyin said: A plank of wood with 4 nails and strings attached would be to good an instrument....what an awful racket, I can't see why guitar companies endorse such clowns, he's never progressed as a musician, as you can tell i'm not a fan. Troll or Russian bot? 23 hours ago, ubit said: I actually have a lot of time for the Ramones. They were a great band for their time and influenced many people. Dee Dee is no Johnny Ramone on the vocals right enough. Some of the first songs I learned were Ramones songs. Nice easy pumping away on two strings. I slag them off purely to be hilarious and am in no way serious about downing The R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Ramones! You mean Joey on the vocals? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 On 24/04/2020 at 08:07, ubit said: Yeah, you certainly need quality instruments to play your four notes clearly! You beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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