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Post subject: Roger Waters Jazz Bass?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:35 pm
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Interesting, I never saw Roger Waters playing Jazz Basses!

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Roger Waters used a Fender Jazz Bass during the Pink Floyd performance of Set the controls of the heart of the sun on the French ORTF TV show "Forum Musiques", broadcasted on 15 February 1969. It's almost certain that the instruments they played were borrowed just for the occasion, because this performance was mimed by the band. Judging by the video footage here, the Jazz Bass Roger used, could originate from between 1960 and 1965 (it's hard to tell from the video, whether his bass had two dual-concentric controls, or three). But it's obvious that it had a natural colour body, white pickguard, rosewood fingerboard with dot markers, and quite interestingly, this bass also had an additional pickup placed closer to neck, with the control knob under a tug bar.


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The third pickup is probably a single-coil P as suggested by the picture. Brotherdave can shed us his light on this bass.


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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters Jazz Bass?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 2:13 pm
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Cool mod. Agree it is probably a first generation P-Bass pickup design. I've never seen this particular instrument before. There were several bass gurus on the west coast of the USA that did this sort of thing but I never saw one in Europe. I think that is likely a rotary pickup selector switch instead of a volume control pot under the tugbar. I don't have any clue otherwise but it is unique. That would be a very bass heavy pickup location.


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