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I'm sure I must have to pay penance for this, but I reaalized tonight that I hadn't listend to any Yes since I got my Rick about a year ago. I am sitting here with headphones and WOW! "Yours is No Disgrace", I guess, is about the coolest sounding bass I have ever heard! I haven't listend to them with headphones since the songs came out! I play so much blues lately, I don't get back to my classics often enough. I need a subwoofer in the Suburban. 90 minutes a day in traffic and I can catch up on my library!

Hmmm...I'm not sure any of the classics were mixed with a subwoofer in mind. But I get what you're saying with the rest of it.

Well, I really mean a big woofer and an amp in addition to the stock stuff. There are 6 speakers so I can't really swap out the stock radio. I would lose two speakers. So..... an amp and a 12 in the back door should just about do it!

Hahahahaha!! "Yours Is No Disgrace" is one of my favorite basslines to play . . . it alternates from like hard-rock-out to guitar counterpoint to slow groove and back again.

I think Squire's best bass tones were on "Siberian Khatru" and on "Ritual", though he always sounded good, no matter what. But those two in particular are just kind of "tone monster" songs.

On YIND, Chris used his 21-fret 1971 4001 MG.

Just shows you how superior the hi-gain/toaster combination is per tone.

Khatru is a nice tone, in fact all of CTTE is...there are a few lines in "And You And I" that have always blown my mind. I know the notes, but never get it to sound as fluid.

Not even considering the tone!

Charly,

I'm kind of in the same boat. I've been in a big McCartney listening mode since I got my first V two years ago, but the band I'm in is playing Audioslave! (How's that for a difference?)
Just this week I was thinking that I haven't listened to Yes in far too long! Time to break the discs out!
YIND is one of my favorites!

I have a worse confession - I now own a Warwick bass. I couldn't pass it up since it was on a blowout. Thing is, all the band members like its sound, so I think I'm stuck with it.

Don't worry, I still own more than my share of Ric basses.

My band members NEVER say anything about my bass...

I've played a few rehearsals with my fretless and I don't think anyone noticed. White fretless Fender J-bass versus a Fireglo Rick Laredo. No comments.

Maybe it's a testament that I play fretless well, but I'm leaning towards the "my bandmates are idiots" explanation. Or maybe they just don't care?

Although I do feel I play fretless well...

"YIND" is a killer bass part and I'm proud to say that I managed to play that sucker AND sing at the same time back in the day. Same thing on "Long Distance Runaraound." I came pretty close to Chris's tone using my '72 4001 through an 18" Acoustic Research 360 folded horn cabinet for the neck pickup and a midrange horn for the treble pickup. Given today's modern amps, you could probably match his tone with one of the newer cabs that have three or four separately chambered speakers -- Accugroove is one of the makers.

"YIND" was the first Yes track I ever heard. When you hear that bass cranking out for the first time....
The Yes Album, Fragile and CTTE sum up his best work/sound imo...

You've probably heard it, me playing along to Yessongs when I was younger, with the Tascam CD trainer. Back then *THE* Squire tone I wanted was this very one from Yessongs, I think I just about got it.

http://www.geocities.com/hennyboy2002/YIND_ric3.wma

I couldn't get enough of Chris Squire... still can't. At that point I was jumping round the room, on my knees... and singing, it's a thrill!

Until I did it before 300 people at a Yes tribute gig, when I was sixteen! Never been so nervous in my life, I wish I had clips of that!

I'm becoming a CS freak. I totally love 'YIND' as well as Starship Trooper and 'I've seen All good People' from the same album. They are about to become my favourite band. (currently the Floyd)

I'm trying to get the people I jam with to do a cover of "Starship Trooper". Our guitarist would have some trouble with Steve Howe's part . . . maybe we can just use keyboards for most of it . . . but yeah, that bassline in "Starship Trooper" is so great.

Now that I've had the action raised on the 4-2-5, I can't play Roundabout. The beginning should be a snap but the hammer-ons need a lower action to work. Not that I ever tried before, but I can see why you need low action to play his stuff.

It really doesn't matter, I'll stick to what I know!