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bass6
Junior
Username: bass6

Post Number: 12
Registered: 10-2007
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 12:11 pm:   Edit Post

I was wondering if anybody knows the type of bass that Steve Swallow plays.Thanks,
darkstar01
Member
Username: darkstar01

Post Number: 99
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 12:14 pm:   Edit Post

It's a Citron semi acoustic. He strings it with a high C and uses a copper pick.
http://www.citron-guitars.com/swallowdescription.html
Austin
bassman68
Junior
Username: bassman68

Post Number: 14
Registered: 10-2007
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 12:39 pm:   Edit Post

Didn't he play an original parker fly 5 with a high C for a while?
darkstar01
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Username: darkstar01

Post Number: 100
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 2:16 pm:   Edit Post

I don't know about the parker. I remember reading in BP a few years back that he's been developing his current bass with Harvey Citron for years, and has been playing different incarnations of it along the way.
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 6035
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 3:31 pm:   Edit Post

Here's Swallow with John Scofield.
2400wattman
Senior Member
Username: 2400wattman

Post Number: 496
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 4:01 pm:   Edit Post

He did play an unfinished Parker. One of the first I believe. I remember an album cover of his which was a shot of him playing that Parker live.
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2873
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 5:30 pm:   Edit Post

I thought this thread, "Steve Swallows Bass", was going to be like the story that came out last year about the python in the Everglades that swallowed the alligator! (The alligator then tore through the python's side and they both died). Ahh, the importance of the apostrophe! hehehehe

Bill, tgo
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 6037
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 5:34 pm:   Edit Post

Hee hee!
crobbins
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Username: crobbins

Post Number: 81
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 5:47 pm:   Edit Post

I'd like to see Steve swallow a bass...Lol..
hieronymous
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Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 239
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 8:18 pm:   Edit Post

For a long time he played a Gibson EB-2 - there was a great Gary Burton clip on YouTube for a while from the '70s that included a great bass solo - distorted tone, really inventive playing. His bass had two humbuckers, not as muddy as a regular Gibson mudbucker, maybe DiMarzio replacements...
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1761
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 2:50 am:   Edit Post

Eats, leaves and shoots?

--- uh, that should have read:

Eats, shoots and leaves.

(Message edited by adriaan on January 18, 2008)
0vid
Intermediate Member
Username: 0vid

Post Number: 118
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 3:03 am:   Edit Post

Nut screws washers and bolts.
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1762
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 3:08 am:   Edit Post

EB-2 - didn't Stanley play one before he was introduced to Alembic?

Mudbuckers - I remember an article on updating the electronics on a Gibson semi-acoustic with the single large humbucker, where just removing a capacitor (or some other small component) made it sound much more useful.

(Message edited by adriaan on January 18, 2008)
0vid
Intermediate Member
Username: 0vid

Post Number: 121
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 - 3:15 am:   Edit Post

Stanley Clarke used an EB2.

Steve Swallow has used these:

EB2
Froc Fillipetti
F bass
Parker Custom

and now plays a Citron. He uses a copper pick I think which is odd given the tone you hear that he gets.
hifiguy
Intermediate Member
Username: hifiguy

Post Number: 130
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 12:48 pm:   Edit Post

The Citron bass is lovely, but his playing is what's so special. Check out his Nite Glo album with Carla Bley - some of the most lyrical and melodic bass playing ever.

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