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Brian, thanks for the interesting Ten Years After info!

Email confirmation is great. Joe Macre from Crack the Sky emailed me several years back re: using a 4001 on the first album (although it was another "can't be anything but a Rick" situation ...)

Yeah I'd read that somewhere hear before too. One of those immortal bass lines.

Yeah Bob The Boston Tea Party what a showcase that was. My older brother saw that show. Said Iggy was "Wicked" Haha

Yeah he was nutty! they were great.
I saw Led Zepplin there and they had Ric Transonics for there amps.

Back to the original question regarding "Head East" I saw them in a club in the mid '70's and the bass player had a sunburst, maple neck Precision bass with a black guard and cream colored dimarzio replacement pickup in it. There were no other basses on stage.

Does anybody know what kind of bass is featured in Dylan's "Like A Rollingstone"? There is a certain Rick-like quality to it.

If I'm not mistaken, Rinus Gerritsen of Golden Earring used a Danelectro. At least every photo I saw of him included a Dano.

Danos have a sweet sound. I used to ignore them until I played one. They have wonderful tone and are very easy to play.

My Jerry Jones "Danos". BassVI and 4-string.

Who'd a thought that Masonite would be such a great tonewood

I agree though - the Dano's sound sweet...

At Rinus Gerritsen's website http://www.golden-earring.nl/rinus/ there's a gear page where he lists what was used on what album. His doubleneck Dano/Precision and a Chapman Stick are listed for Cut, which contains Twilight Zone. So -- was it the Precision neck or the Dano neck? Or the Stick?

He explains that the Fender neck is connected to a solid body section and the Dano to a hollow section. And both use Bill Lawrence pickups.

When I came across his site I was very surprised to find that Moontan was all done with a Gibson EB-3. I had always thought Radar Love was done with his original Dano.

I always thought that was a P bass in Like A Rolling Stone.
Ok,I looked it up as I was interested as I love that whole album, it was Harvey Brooks (I guess his real name is Harvey Goldstein, I always wondered who that was, now I know) playing all the electric bass, and he has always used P basses as far as I know, or at least back then he did.
Reverand basses are made like Danelectros I believe and also have a great tone to them.

Funny thing about Dano's (I had a 1960 6-string bass) is that with the cheapest materials - Masonite over plywood frame, wallpaper covered sides, surplus lipstick tubes, ****** tuners, Formica pickguards, aluminum nuts - they had (at least some had) Brazilian rosewood fretboards...