Different Flatwounds

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:45 am

Pyramid Gold flats here.....all I use now.

I get 'em from juststrings(dot)com

wolfgang · Post by **wolfgang** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:09 am

hello Greg,
as far as I know, Entwistle used nylon tape wounds on My Generation.

soundmasterg · Post by **soundmasterg** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:02 pm

Hi Wolfgang. I read an interview with Entwistle from a couple years ago where he said he used Labella flatwounds on a Jazz bass on My Generation. He was trying to use a Danelectro because of the tone it could get him, but he kept breaking the strings on the Dano's, and he would buy another one to get that sound again, because he couldn't buy the same strings that were on the Dano. After buying 3 new Dano's and repeatedly breaking strings, he gave up and used the Jazz bass.

wolfgang · Post by **wolfgang** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 8:44 am

What a story! They were great!

All I got was a tiny CD cover of the My Generation LP. There's a picture on the back John playing his Jazz Bass. The strings looked black to me. And they sounded like nylon ones.
(Labella aren't nylon ones?

)

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:21 am

Greg's story is correct, and the Jazz had flats not nylon flats. That bass is pictured in his book.
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/bass/equip-entwistlegear.html

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:04 pm

That Enwistle gear read is great! Thanks for that. In the gear section he mentions Squire, and it got me wondering, had they ever met? Have they mentioned each other in interviews that anyone knows of?

byu · Post by **byu** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:35 pm

Squire recently mentioned in an interview, when asked about Daltry narrating the recent Yes rockumentry and how well he knew him (Daltry), that he knew John & Pete quite well (better than Daltry).

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:30 am

How about the Ox with a Rick?

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:40 am

Just about every interview with Squire you read they ask the same questions, one being about influences/starting to play, and he ALWAYS and only mentions The Ox. John mentions Chris in his new book, on the page for the 8-string Ric.
The above photo of John w/Ric has been my screen saver for quite a while now.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:52 am

Squire doesn't mention Mac? I've always heard traces of Paulie in Squires playing. The spirit is surely there. Yes always struck me as a band that took an aspect of the Beatles writing and ran with it. Prog has seemed an extension of psychedelic and the sort of Baroque rock of about the same era as psychedelia. I know I'm nuts, but in all periods of rock there seems to be a thread.

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:07 am

He usually says he prefered the Stones over the Beatles.

byu · Post by **byu** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:03 pm

From the book Close to the Edge by Chris Welch quoting Chris Squire: "It's only when I turned 15 in 1963 that I was the right age to be a Beatles fan. They sort of changed my musical tastes from church to secular music."

A few pages later: Chris was undoubtedly inspired by Paul McCartney's melodic violin bass style but he was also influenced by the mighty John Entwistle of The Who.