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Squire doubled the bass part on a Gibson f-hole acoustic guitar.

Works for me!

I listened to that Miguel guy.. not bad. I can tell there is some fret buzz, but I ignore it. He's pretty good.

Ok then.. Howe did the pull off fills?

Sounds like Howe to me.

Actually, on The Yes Album, I'm pretty sure that all the basslines that are "doubled" by guitars are actually the Ric-o-Sound jack on the bass. Squire adored the stereo capability, and he put one pickup "left" and one pickup "right". Considering he split the bridge pickup through a Marshall guitar amp, it sounds a hell of a lot like a guitar. But yeah, I'm pretty sure most of the "doubled" stuff is actually just his bass pickups split stereo. I've heard other people do it and it nails the sound almost perfectly.

According to the Steve Howe site, Chris doubled the Bass lines on Roundabout with a 1935 Gibson FDH (Francis, Day and Hunter Gibson Model). It's a F-Hole Archtop.

The counterpart of the RM1999 featured in "Roundabout"

- "When it still had a pickup Chris Squire used the FDH to double his bass parts on "Roundabout"."

Hahahah!

Here's a link to the relevant page on Steve Howe's website. It also says there that the guitar "has very unusual checker binding with a four-inch body."

I always thought a cool trivia fact was Bruford playing milk bottles (remember those?) during the breakdown ("along the drifting clouds...) in Roundabout. He apparently also played bongos through a wah near the end of America.

Then of course the broken cymbal Bruford found in the trash that he used on One More Red Nightmare...

Bruford is great! I guess he'll bang on anything he finds!

As far as bass lines go I'm not sure what was doubled or not.For the longest time I thought the riff in Roundabout right under Squire was was done on keyboard.Fret buzz is a type of distortion to me and I like to use it when I want something in conjuction with a heavy right hand finger just about
on the end of the neck to get a ripping(not slap) attack sound.John Entwhistle was well known for that style.Jeez, I miss the OX.
Anyway I posted the link to a Squire fan only to help to learn,not as a diffinative <sp encylopedia
on Chris Squires' bass playing.Sometimes I think there is more fun in learning than being learned.
Bill

Speaking of pick players, I finally picked up the 30th anniversary version of Deep Purple's Burn album. Not only is Glenn Hughes a killer bassist (as well as vocalist), but he recorded the album with a 4001! He used a P-bass in the California Jam concert, but it's nice to have it confirmed that it's a 4001 on Burn. Actually, when you listen to it it's pretty obvious!

Gees... To many basses to buy, to many bands to discover... and buy their cds... And then on top of all that I need more equipment. I dont think theres an end to the wanting is there? It just keeps going?