Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

Anyone know what bass Dee Dee is playing in this?


Fuzzbass2000

Recommended Posts

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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!

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

  • Like 7
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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 😊

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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?

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...