Looking for Recordings: Fender J With Flats

I was surprised when it was page 4 and David Hood hadn’t been mentioned yet. I assume he holds the title for most songs recorded with a J bass + flats.

To be completely honest, we don’t know if everything he played was on flatwounds ir not. His early 60s J was stolen, and he said the later J’s he replaced it with never sounded quite as good. When asked what kind of strings he played he said, “whatever they come with”.
 
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To be completely honest, we don’t know if everything he played was on flatwounds ir not. His early 60s J was stolen, and he said the later J’s he replaced it with never sounded quite as good. When asked what kind of strings he played he said, “whatever they come with”.
There's a live Traffic album where he is playing one of the replacement Jazzes, and it sure sounds like flats--judging by the era I'd wager those are the strings it came with. Great playing.

But yeah, hard to say about other recordings - he also had an early Alembic and a single coil P if I'm not mistaken.
 
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Looking back, a lot of stuff Brian Odgers played on in the UK was a Jazz with flats up until he got his Alembics and Wals...

Elton John's Madman had Brian, Herbie, and even Dee on the album, but Levon is a Brian track.

You can hear it pretty clearly once the first chorus and second verse gets going. He had a tendency back then to overplay a bit, so it's a bit more obvious.
But basically, the difference was in how the sound was more "gerk" with flat-wounds, and more "gawnk" with rounds...