| Author | Message | ||
| bass6
Junior Username: bass6 Post Number: 12 Registered: 10-2007 |
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 |
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 |
Didn't he play an original parker fly 5 with a high C for a while? | ||
| darkstar01
Member Username: darkstar01 Post Number: 100 Registered: 6-2005 |
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 |
Here's Swallow with John Scofield. | ||
| 2400wattman
Senior Member Username: 2400wattman Post Number: 496 Registered: 11-2005 |
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
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2873 Registered: 7-2004 |
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 |
Hee hee! | ||
| crobbins
Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 81 Registered: 6-2004 |
I'd like to see Steve swallow a bass...Lol.. | ||
| hieronymous
Advanced Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 239 Registered: 1-2005 |
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 |
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 |
Nut screws washers and bolts. | ||
| adriaan
Senior Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 1762 Registered: 6-2002 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
