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Cool link, Ilan, thanks! Where's it from?

You can see that his action is medium-high:

So, he doesn't use all 4 fingers of his fretting hand, then?

There's also a video for "Love Will Find A Way", which shows the 80's "Big Hair" Yes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=lSzlpJ8Ujv4

Heh, I meant "what was the story behind the video?", as it is 30 year old music apparently played recently. But I think I found out, it is from Conspiricy sessions and the full video will apparently eventually be released as a DVD.

I was around 12 years old when I watched Chris Squire on TV performing Hold Out Your Hand on the Don Kurshner’s Rock Concert show. 25 years later with Chris’s help I got a hold of the only 35mm print of that footage. I had tried for 25 years to get video copies of the TV broadcast with no luck at all. Even Don couldn’t help. I transferred the 35mm film to digital tape and every now and then I watch it and freak. I have never made anyone a copy but anyone who wants to see it is welcome over for a view. (Los Angeles). Chris had told me he was going to redo the session but the original is too good to compare. It was seeing that clip of Chris that got me into Rickenbacker basses and made Chris my favorite member of the greatest band of all time.

I wonder if he's using both pickups.

That Kramer acoustic bass that Chris is "playing" around the fire is so ugly! Also, what the heck is that Steinberger-with-a-headstock-type guitar that Jon Anderson has? Oh, and I see Chris Squire has a red five-string Tobias in the other shots . . . just like my bass! Only more expensive and of higher build quality . . . those are great basses.

What is with him not using his pinkie? That's not an all the time thing. He uses alot of pinkie in the Keys to Ascension dvd. I think it just depends on what he is doing, but isn't curling your pinkie under like that one of the "dreaded" technique problems? I only ask because I am also working my way to being a "self-taught" player (pretty much modeled on CS' style of playing) and I wonder if I should avoid it.

That action gives me vertigo; I could NEVER play that thing....but having shaken hands with him his hands are around twice the size of mine, so that must help....

Damn, that is high action.

He just needs to join the forum and learn a few things about setting up his bass.

part of the price you pay when playing a 60's Ric 4001 bass is higher action on the high frets ... those old necks are really slim and they are 2 pieces of wood the maple neck and the fretboard and 2 soft steel rods ... when you string them up with rotosounds something has to give ... the weaker neck is wonderfully slim and the resonance is very good ... but there is no way you are going to get the action of a late 70s 4001 or a modern 4003 bass ... the modern neck flattens out very nicely ...

Plus the fact that the headstock was nearly broken off too. The fact that it can handle Rotosound 66's is amazing to me. That bass,just like McCartney's, has been through a lot.