Looking for Recordings: Fender J With Flats

[JMacBass65]

Yeah, was thinking the same thing. At some point he switched to rounds but I think the first two albums at least were with flats.

He didn't switch to rounds on his Jazz until after Zeppelin, per an interview he gave Guitar Player Mag in 1977. His single coil P, his Alembic, and his Bec Var 8 string were all rounds. That said, the first two albums, as well as The Song Remains the Same, are the only albums that I think can be clearly attributed to the Jazz bass and no others. After that, he started mixing things up a bit in the studio.

 

[Michael Milner]

Seems like everyone has been covered....i know Jack Casady from the Airplane played a Fender Jazz. I assume the strings were flats based on the era, but I'm not sure.

 

[Maxi Funkl]

I’m pretty sure Marshall Jones was a Precision player.

Yeah soon after posting that I thought opps right strings wrong Fender bass.

 

[Evan J]

J with flats:

This one is sick. Gotta listen to some more of them.

 

[Evan J]

This is a great list y’all thanks. That’s great insight about the lack of rounds in the 60s.

Any of y’all happen to know of some recent examples as well?

 

[Luther]

I put low tension labella flats on my J bass today… it was a revelation.

What players have recorded a Fender Jazz with flat wounds? The more genres the better. Links would be appreciated. Live or studio.

Besides Joe Dart on Dean Town… that’s a given.

 

[klyph]

Here you go…

 

[Snaxster]

Here you go…

Indeed any Bootsy with the JBs era James Brown. You can add Bootsy with Parliament to that list.

 

[mambo4]

Every track my old band recorded I used a Jazz (Lull MV4, passive) with TI Jazz flats
I like this one


More stuff at bandcamp
Sweet Secrets

 

[manchego_eggo]

Stadium Arcadium by RHCP, and I believe it was recorded direct into console, but correct me if I'm wrong but I believe some stuff on all subsequent records have jazz bass with flats as well.

 

[Maestro29]

I put low tension labella flats on my J bass today… it was a revelation.

What players have recorded a Fender Jazz with flat wounds? The more genres the better. Links would be appreciated. Live or studio.

Besides Joe Dart on Dean Town… that’s a given.[

I read an interview with John Entwistle where he said My Generation was a Fender jazz with La Bella flats.

 

[Jeff Scott]

2003 AV '62 Jazz Bass with TI Jazz Flats.

 

[Medbo_BassBoy]

Love this video https://youtube.com/shorts/MyF1OBlMbAQ?si=ZioIZaZrj-b93Xyw

I put La Bella LTF on my jazz bass a month ago and just took them off. I like the tone better than flats on my p-bass but not my sound.. switched out for DR highbeams. Very different.

 

[Swerve]

There is lots of reggae recorded on a jazz with flats. All of Bob Marley's catalog for one example. Bob Marley's bassist Familyman also played on a lot of other artists' material as well.

Robbie Shakespeare also used a jazz during his career, though he is known to have used other basses as well.

Also the Roots Radics' bassist Flabba Holt recorded with a jazz on many reggae songs of the late 70s and early 80s.

Familyman with Bob Marley



Here's Flabba backing Gregory Issacs

I saw a recent interview with Flabba where he said he uses rounds but never changes the strings and of course uses a foam mute, so they may as well be flats.

 

[sashavie]

I use a Fender Jazz with TI flats on almost all my stuff

Here's a recent LP I did - on quite a few of the tracks I was able to play double stops and let them ring without it getting flubby

 

[Harper]

Herbie Flowers famously played his Blue Jazz with the original flats on a lot of the early Elton John.

Splitting hairs, but I'm pretty sure Herbie Flowers used/uses Rotosound tapewound strings.

 

[pbass888]

the great Jerry Jemmott... He mentioned in an interview the jazz bass and the "live recording for this track"

 

[ok-djmiller]

All of Khruangbin's recordings, as far as I know.

 

[EddiePlaysBass]

I have

 

[Bag of Lazers]

I cut this whole album on a lawsuit Jazz with flats:

Eye Two Three - YouTube