stanley Clarke playing a jazz bass

[black.rose1402]

I just found this video of Sir Clarke playing a fender jazz

 

[two fingers]

Dude could make incredible music using a wooden spoon and an iron skillet.

Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey own his original Alembic basses these days (the brown and the red one).

 

[J_Bass]

Seems like he doesn't give much importance to the basses. Like he says on this video, the secret is his fingers and technique.

 

[bassbrad]

Before getting the Alembic basses Stanley went through a lot of basses trying to find his sound, if you do a deep dive into images you will find him playing Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker and other basses.

Stanley Clarke's Gibson G3

 

[jerry]

Looks like he's just sitting in using somebody's very worn in J-bass, I dig it!

 

[Watchootognbout]

There's a pic of Stan with a Fender Jazz on the back of Return To Forever's
"Where Have I Known You Before"vinyl LP.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

The thing that struck me about the video was just how much Stanley Clarke sounded like Stanley Clarke. The other day I saw a thread about any just using the neck pickup on a Jazz. That person needs to listen to this clip of Stanley Clarke.

 

[jerry]

The thing that struck me about the video was just how much Stanley Clarke sounded like Stanley Clarke. The other day I saw a thread about any just using the neck pickup on a Jazz. That person needs to listen to this clip of Stanley Clarke.

Yeah, the hands. Stanley likes to play up by the neck, he didn't have a Alembic bass when he first went electric, but sounded like Stanley. Same with Jaco, you see all the videos of him playing on borrowed basses after he lost his, still sounds like Jaco.

 

[Rev J]

There are a couple of tracks off the "Vertu" album he did with Lenny White, Rachel Z, Karen Briggs, and Richie Kotzen that he did on Armand Sabal Lecco's Fender Jazz too.

C/S,
Rev J

 

[jerry]

There are a couple of tracks off the "Vertu" album he did with Lenny White, Rachel Z, Karen Briggs, and Richie Kotzen that he did on Armand Sabal Lecco's Fender Jazz too.

C/S,
Rev J

A overlooked album in the Clarke canon like the Animal Logic albums. IMHO

 

[MrLenny1]

Looking forward to seeing him in November.

 

[Bob_Ross]

There's a pic of Stan with a Fender Jazz on the back of Return To Forever's
"Where Have I Known You Before"vinyl LP.

iirc the Fender Jazz Bass is pictured on a stand in the background of the photo of Lenny White; the photo of Stanley Clarke shows him with his Alembic Series bass.

/Captain Pedantic

 

[Watchootognbout]

iirc the Fender Jazz Bass is pictured on a stand in the background of the photo of Lenny White; the photo of Stanley Clarke shows him with his Alembic Series bass.

/Captain Pedantic

Always thought that was Stanley.
With his bigger "Fro"

Wasn't Lenny was always wearing his iconic hat?
Or maybe it was Lenny.
Can anyone dig up a pic?

 

[Bob_Ross]

Can anyone dig up a pic?

 

[Watchootognbout]

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The corrupted memory of an aging Fusion fan.

 

[Watchootognbout]

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But still!
Stanley had played a Jazz at some point in the past!
No telling when and where that little pic was taken.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I heard Clarke used a Jazz on Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.

 

[Bob_Ross]

But still!
Stanley had played a Jazz at some point in the past!
No telling when and where that little pic was taken.

Oh yeah, I have no doubt the guy has owned & played Fenders before...have you ever seen pics of his bass collections? Not quite Entwistle level of opulence but lots of stuff that you never actually see him -- and therefore imagine him -- with.

I heard Clarke used a Jazz on Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy.

Ha! I heard he used either a Rickenbacker 4000 (the single-pickup version, not a 4001) or a Gibson EB-2d on Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy! But I have no idea where I heard either of those suggestions, and certainly don't think I've ever seen anything definitive.