Your favorite Fender Bass VI songs?

[raal]

That is actually a guy named Gary Boyle, who by then had started the jazz/rock band
Isotope, so, just sitting in? Ironically, the following year Hugh Hopper, 2nd Softs bassist, joined that band...

Lovely, Canterbury at its best, judging by the sound ...

 

[bassdude51]

Beatles songs with a VI.

Fender Bass VI

 

[BarfanyShart]

Interesting! That's not the flatwound sound I usually think of in association with Peter Hook, although maybe the audio's just lo-fi here. Do you suppose the scale length and string gauges are similar to a Bass VI?

He apparently wrote a lot of the early stuff on an Eastwood VI, which I think is basically a clone of the Fender.

 

[Michedelic]

The VI was used on Fresh Cream, but Bruce had moved to a 4 string Dano by the NYC sessions for Disraeli Gears in April/May ‘67...

Seen here on stage in February or March, ‘67


Reason being that the psychedelic paint job(also done to Clapton’s SG)on the VI was botched, rendering it unplayable. Bruce would quickly move on to the Gibson EB3 from the Danelectro, and would use the Fender as a prop in later publicity photos.

 

[Michedelic]

Not a Fender, but it's a VI.

Interesting! That's not the flatwound sound I usually think of in association with Peter Hook, although maybe the audio's just lo-fi here. Do you suppose the scale length and string gauges are similar to a Bass VI?

He apparently wrote a lot of the early stuff on an Eastwood VI, which I think is basically a clone of the Fender.

Not an Eastwood, as they didn’t exist as a company back then, but a Shergold Marathon

...which Eastwood did recently clone/reissue, but it’s nothing like a Fender with its single humbucker

 

[Michedelic]

Glen Campbell on Dano or Fender VI, Carol
Kaye on regular Precision; contrast that to this rare instance where the Beach Boys are actually playing live on TV(the exception, not the rule, in those days)...

 

[Elvis Nixon]

Definitely sounds like a Dano on the intro of the studio recording. I can get that exact tone on my Jerry Jones Dano longhorn 6.

 

[tkozal]

Peter Green, of Fleetwood Mac. At the Boston Tea Party, on "Green Manalishi".. Chilling. Its on youtube

 

[Larry Balara]

Found it on Spotify. I could tell from the first few notes that I was going to like it. Is that Bass VI starting at 1:48?

It's very difficult to find an definitive information on Sveinung Hovensjø. So I will just ask the forum. Does anyone know how he tunes his bass vi? Babbington tunes his like a bass in all 4ths.

 

[rtslinger]

I think I read that 10cc used one in the song I’m not in love?

 

[sunbeast]

I think I read that 10cc used one in the song I’m not in love?

I think you’re thinking of “Dreadlock Holiday”: