Geezer Butler and his 4001

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:05 pm

1978
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8764526585860472709&hl=en

walker · Post by **walker** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:36 am

Sweet! Cool that they started off with SOTU - Sabotage is their best album in my opinion. I didn't know Geezer used a Rick that often. By the sound of this live footage, I'm guessing he used it in the studio quite a bit.

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:31 am

This was the bass Glenn Hughes gave to him.

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:33 am

Yup. Traded a T-bird for it. Two of my fave bassists both associated with a 4001.

Check out the cover of Deep Purple's "Made In Europe" to see Glenn playing it....

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:59 am

Mark, Geezer has said he actually didn't like the bass much, so I suspect it wasn't used much. IIRC he only used it on this footage because he forgot the bring the bass he was going to use, or something to that effect. IIRC I also read something that said he always keeps his basses, except for a Rickenbacker which he never used which he traded for something else ( a P-Bass???). I suspect this is that very bass.

walker · Post by **walker** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:28 am

Wow. That's bizarre. Oh well. No accounting for taste, I guess.

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:03 am

it's geezer. he can play and keep whatever he wants!

pekka · Post by **pekka** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:14 pm

loendmaestro wrote:Yup. Traded a T-bird for it. Two of my fave bassists both associated with a 4001.

Check out the cover of Deep Purple's "Made In Europe" to see Glenn playing it....

To see but not to hear. It was a pic from the earlier stages of "Burn" tour and at the time of the recording (spring '75) Glenn had switched to Precision. Great sound anyway and I think Glenn had a better sound using a Fender (Burn vs. Stormbringer, for example).

If Geezer used the Rick only for that gig, Glenn probably used the T-Bird even less!:) Never seen a pic of him playing one but of course at that time he was a bit out to lunch...

BTW, Geezer's see-through Dan Armstrong bass pictured on the inner gatefold of "Vol4" had a somehow similar story:
http://www.vintageguitar.com/artists/details.asp?ID=254

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:29 am

I did say "see"....

pekka · Post by **pekka** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:38 pm

loendmaestro wrote:I did say "see"....

Yes, I know and I didn't mean you thought he played it on that album. Sorry.

12stringbassist · Post by **12stringbassist** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:33 pm

Geezer used John Birch basses for most of his time with BS.

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:28 pm

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