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Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:15 am
by anonymous
SR5?

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:09 am
by anonymous
Nigel,
SR5-Is that the model number, I am curious myself.

Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:18 pm
by anonymous
Sorry, SR5 is short for StingRay 5. AFAIK, it's the only MM 5er available.

Here are the specs: http://www.ernieball.com/mmonline/specs/instruments_stingray5.html

Here's a pic: http://www.ernieball.com/mmonline/specs/inst_stingray5_big.html

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:25 pm
by anonymous
Nigel,
That appears to be the model. Imagine it Lefty in red and with a rosewood fingerboard. Thanks for the pictures.

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:58 pm
by rictified
The best tone Mac ever had is (to me) Yer Blues, and Helter Skelter, I love his flatwound sound.

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:13 pm
by simer4001
I think Paul played a Fender Jazz bass on those two songs.

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:58 am
by rictified
Sounds like Rics to me. both of them, I have never heard a jazz bass sound that dirty. I can get those exact sounds out of my Rics with Fender stainless flats on them with a pick.

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:24 pm
by marc67
I was also in shock when I found out it was not a Ric. From what I had read it was a '66 lefty Jazz(not the right handed one that George used) This was probably the bass on these songs.

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:10 pm
by rictified
Why? Do you guys know that for a fact?

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:21 pm
by rictified
That is the same sound as "Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey" And I nailed that sound with my Ric and handmuting and a pick for a band I used to play with, that little solo part of about 5 notes that ends up on a D. The guitar player was flabbergasted. He became a Ric lover that night.
I trust my own ears more than peoples recollections of what happened in the studio anyway.
The only way I would believe that those songs were Fender Jazzes would be to have an actual studio movie of them recording that song with live audio. (a finished take, haha!)