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From 2002

That's a first. I've never seen a bass player use a capo before.
JimK

jimk wrote:That's a first. I've never seen a bass player use a capo before.
JimK

Yep, never been done before!

I use one on one tune, it holds a C drone on the E string while I noodle about up top.

Thanks for the video, Hooky is one of my top 5 faves. I was compared to him for years before I actually heard him play and heard what everybody meant.

Never much liked New Order. Got the urge to spin up Unknown Pleasures after seeing this thread.

iamthebassman wrote:I use one on one tune, it holds a C drone on the E string while I noodle about up top.

Thanks for the video, Hooky is one of my top 5 faves. I was compared to him for years before I actually heard him play and heard what everybody meant.

Tomorrow Never Knows?

Yep!

I bumped into Pete Hook recently and being from the scene around Manchester
in the late 70s we have a few mutual friends that we spoke about.
I was telling him about the first time I saw him with Joy Division when he had a Rick copy
and I had my RM (the white Gibb bass) and I felt I had the edge on the copy players with having the real thing.
I had previously worked up stuff with the drummer in Warsaw (which became Joy Division) when they were forming but passed up in
favour of another band that disolved a few weeks later.
I actually wanted to join Magazine but that didnt come off either.
Anyway I told him how I lost track of my white RM after the 80s until the internet came along and I got in touch with the present owner.
Hooky has tracked down a couple of basses he first owned to add to his collection and of course I told him about my 4001CS.
When I said I had a Yes tribute band he said Yes were his favourite band in the mid 70s and how much he loved Squires playing.
I said you owe Squire a bit of a nod for his use of the flanger and other effects that you use on New Order records.

Small world out there guys.