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..or one of the original early 80s bronco basses...
re exactly when he first used it in the studio, while Paul says in this interview that he doesn't remember the song, only the album, george (harrison) says he remembers it was first used on 'think for yourself' during the revolver sessions to get that fat fuzzbass tone.
tuning is a state of mind. personally i think it's overrated.
Algernon: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
Lane (Valet): I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.
Algernon: I'm sorry for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression.
As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
(Oscar Wilde 'the importance of being earnest').
both of these, from what i understand according to reading.
the looks were the big factor initially, rather than the tone. in those early days of electrical guitars i imagine there wasn't as much attention paid to offering broad tonal options, it was more 'will this actually work, will it stay in tune (already covered that one), & will it last more than ten minutes.'
so i think he felt a bit 'odd-man-out' when everyone else had guitars 'the right way up' & he looked as if he was holding his 'the wrong way up'.
to a young man wanting to make a dashing impression on the women in the front row, it looking right would been a big deal & rightly so.
i actually tried a squier bronco a few weeks ago. i couldn't believe my luck on stumbling across it in a local indoor antiques (also junk & clutter) market;
good condition, black, offset, squier-reliable-eveything & shortscale & under £100. when i first saw it i thought ii would def be taking it.
& i hated it. the neck was as wide & deep as the chunkiest pbass i have ever tried. 2x2 time. it seemed really heavy too, but i had just come home from blood tests so was feeling even weaker than usual.
even for £80 (& could have haggled down) i left it. very surprised.
i think any guitarist with bass intentions, thinking that a shortscale fender-squier would be a perfect transition bass, would be in for a nasty shock. plankissimo!
The very reason that many hate them and love the squiers may well be the factors that make one work for you.. IIRC the musicmaster I tried was a proper slim jim narrow neck affair that as a fat bugger P bass preferrer was odd to me.
I’d happily adapt to thin and shallow tho, as I have basses that are like this anyway - but if you find big and chunky too much then I can understand your reluctance.
You’ll note from my original post I specifically didn’t mention the newer squier version of the bronco/bullet/musicmaster etc..
I don't think that I have ever seen a Fender Bronco Bass. (The original Fender Bronco guitar was a student model. Imagine, if you will, a Musicmaster but with a terrible vibrato and its lone pickup roughly where the bridge pickup goes on a Mustang.) The Squier Bronco Bass always struck me as a budget reincarnation of the Fender Musicmaster Bass - only not built nearly as well.
basically no-frills first-rung fender fun, but a cut above a lot (though not all) of the flash mij tat that would have been competing for the same cash.
(That's not the original pickup - someone has replaced the fairly weak single coil with a Duncan Rails by the look of it. I had the idea of doing the same thing but with an EMG...)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
They aren't really still putting that pointy headstock on instruments without a lock nut are they? Guaranteed tuning trouble, and that's if the corner of the nut doesn't break off.
It's 2018, not 1988.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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The insane headstock design actually pulled the nut off the bass.
And then @mart goes and posts that thing...!
I reckon @vale might find a Rickenbacker tone out of these options:
On - Rickenbacker
Off - other
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein