merello Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsli7ijYDE Bit 51P, bit J bass? Edited September 24, 2011 by merello Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Crikey that brings back memories... <cough> I mean stuff that my Dad told me about when I was a kid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysP Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Good old Alan Hull! Their first three albums ("Nicely out of tune", "Fog on the Tyne" & "Dingly Dell") were on heavy rotation in my house when I was a kid. Great songs & some lovely bass playing on them too. Shame they'll be remembered by most people for that f***ing awful Gazza song. What surprised me the most on that OGWT programme last night was how many of the acts were so obviously miming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 [quote name='merello' timestamp='1316858873' post='1383715'] Bit 51P, bit J bass? [/quote] Isn't it just a Precision bass with most of the pickguard missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillbilly deluxe Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Yup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 [quote name='hillbilly deluxe' timestamp='1316868768' post='1383844'] Yup. [/quote] Definitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2112 Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 I am still struggling to work out how this came from Newcastle. So much cheer...maybe things were different back in the day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Ah, my specialist subject. Here's the lowdown on that bass, from Rod himself. [quote name='Rod Clements']The tone I was trying for never changed much, and the closest I got was on the old '61 Precision. It had serial no. 63325 and I bought it second-hand in London for about £80 in 1968. It would be worth thousands now. It was originally salmon pink, quite chipped & worn when I got it, and after I'd had it a few months I stripped the paint off back to the wood, as was in vogue at the time (inspired by John McVie of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers & later Fleetwood Mac) - solid guitars were not sold in natural finish then. Not long after, I saw Joe Cocker's Grease Band with Chris Stainton on bass (before he changed to piano) and was astounded to see him playing a bass much the same as mine - but with no frets! So I prised the frets out of mine with a screwdriver, filled up the slots with plastic wood and sanded and polished the fingerboard. This is definitely NOT recommended, but somehow it worked, and the fretless sound became a bit of a trademark for me. I also removed part of the scratchplate and stained the body in a dark oak colour. So that's how the bass was when I did those recordings and appeared with it on OGWT. However, it wasn't particularly easy to play and by this time I fancied something different, so I got a Rickenbacker and had it converted to fretless. Though I used it through Jack The Lad and for a short while after, it wasn't a great success and I was soon back to a Fender - an off-the-peg fretless Precision, In the meantime, I had left Jack The Lad and their new bass player asked if he could borrow my old '61, which I had had re-fretted. While they had it, it got stolen and I never saw it again. [/quote] Rod is a great, great underrated player, responsible for some of the best tones there ever has been, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 [quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1316893536' post='1384236'] I am still struggling to work out how this came from Newcastle. So much cheer...maybe things were different back in the day? [/quote] Ah - a certain brand of Brown Ale I reckon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merello Posted September 25, 2011 Author Share Posted September 25, 2011 Stolen? Who has it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 [quote name='merello' timestamp='1316937469' post='1384450'] Stolen? Who has it? [/quote] Rod would love to know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 every track on the fog on the tyne lp is absolutely brilliant , with the exception of the title song which seems out of place on album but obviously a classic in its own right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 [quote name='merello' timestamp='1316937469' post='1384450'] Stolen? Who has it? [/quote] Haha, I find it slightly disturbing that you expect the person who stole the P to be on Basschat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.young Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 I like the way it carries on playing itself when he plays the fiddle break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 (edited) Im glad i saw this thread. I saw it last night and wondered what bit was. Beautiful tone. I thought i could see a vague Fender on the head but thats all. ps: The clip on this thread is from uk gold i think. the OGWT original on youtube is better quality. Edited September 27, 2011 by daz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I'd like to have the gent on the right as a pet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1317128153' post='1387064'] I'd like to have the gent on the right as a pet. [/quote] Wasnt there a craze on them as playground pets in the mid 70's ? (Around the same time [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE"]'clackers'[/url] were a playground craze and notoriously the first thing ever to get banned in schools because of the media making up sensational stories about them exploding and taking out eyeballs with the shrapnel etc.) [quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1317070000' post='1386457'] I like the way it carries on playing itself when he plays the fiddle break. [/quote] Oh thats just a bit of Reverb / Echo. Isn't it ? ps here is the original OGWT clip I mentioned above in a post.much better quality. And a lovely big close up of the bass right at the begining, So [i]full screen [/i]it for the full effect [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RrfIRBxOc0[/media] Edited September 27, 2011 by daz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Seeing that drummer reminds me ... a tank top revival is WAY overdue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1317156579' post='1387539'] Seeing that drummer reminds me ... a tank top revival is WAY overdue. [/quote] Here's me and that drummer... all his tank tops were safely stored backstage. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTP543lpqQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTP543lpqQ[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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