if you could travel back in time and give someone a warwick

Great topic. :D

Like others I would have to say me. As a teenage bass player wanting a Warwick so much in the 80's but never that kind of money............. ahhhhhhhhh I could have been someone!!! LOL!!! :lol:


Cheers,
Rachel 8)
 
Son of Bovril said:
those guys aren't famous for their tone, they are famous for their playing, you could give them any bass and they would have done just as well...

their tone only became a deal when people started trying to copy it IMO
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I disagree. Jaco wouldn't have been Jaco if he had Family Man Barret's tone (plus those harmonics would have been damn hard)...And Bob Marleys music wouldn't be the same if it had Jacos cutting fretless underneath it instead of Family Mans deep earthy rumble.

For a lot of people (myself included) Jaco's tone is a big part of what set him apart from everybody else. Miles Davis, like many other great horn players, was known as much for his tone as anything else. Bass is the same deal.

That said....The tone comes from your head and your hands anyway. Jaco would have sounded pretty much like Jaco regardless of what he played.
 
I'd give JS Bach a Streamer Stage II and an Amp so he could consentrate even harder on his basslines :D
 
I think Charles Mingus could appreciate a Thumb NT :?
 
thndrstk6 said:
Here's an old mockup I did of Jaco.
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Wow that's good, he would have been a great Warwick endorser and by now Warwick would have been a bigger name then Fender :wink:
 
I'd have given Rachmaninoff one... imagine what he could do with his HUGE hands!
 
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) - Thumb NT 5 & 6 string



IMO, the most under appreciated GREAT bass player of all time. His name hardly ever comes up. Just listen to some live Dead from any point in the 70's. What a monster he was (and still is) on Bass. I believe his name should be right at the top of any "all time greats" list.

For those Deadheads on here, and those who might not have heard much live Dead.....Here is a link you absolutely must have!



Cheers
 
I think his name was Dennis dunaway from the first Alice Cooper band. he was awesome on bass...I would hook him up with a Corvette $$
 
out of all the players i'd leave jaco alone, if his upright didn't blow up prompting him to rip the frets off his fender fretless bass would not have go the coverage imo.

If i'm honest i think warwick before warwick wouldn't fit. The warwick bass defines the 90's in terms of a lot of my influences and provided a great evolution of sound.
 
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