Jack Casady-can you help me get his sound?

#82
Jorma has said in an interview once that Jack can play in many different styles, include that of Motown, but he plays in his own way.


JimmyM said:
The Airplane didn't "groove" because they were not a "groove" band. Why is "groove" so regarded as the be-all and end-all when it comes to bass playing? Some music is not meant to groove. Some music turns into something else completely when you try to make it groove, and not always in a good way. Not all music should be funk, after all.
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#83
2 quick points...

It's hard to groove when your heads swimming in the electric kool aid.

Jefferson Airplane was, apart from their singles (and even they are really quite strange), fairly deep in the weird. To the point of being somewhat inaccessible to the straights.
 
#85
I've tried for years to duplicate that tone. The closest I have come is using his Epiphone Signature Bass through a powered splitter, one lead through a Fender Bassman for the "clean" channel, the other though a volume pedal, and into into an EBS Valve Drive (overdrive) Preamp Pedal and then into a small Fender Rumble Combo for the "dirty" channel. I can get that signature "growl" in the upper registers, but this setup lacks the same responsiveness down low.
 
#86
DW747 said:
I've tried for years to duplicate that tone. The closest I have come is using his Epiphone Signature Bass through a powered splitter, one lead through a Fender Bassman for the "clean" channel, the other though a volume pedal, and into into an EBS Valve Drive (overdrive) Preamp Pedal and then into a small Fender Rumble Combo for the "dirty" channel. I can get that signature "growl" in the upper registers, but this setup lacks the same responsiveness down low.
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Look at the photo of his rig a few posts up. It's no Fender Rumble Combo. Aguilar stuff does fat big-time! :)
 
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