The Cure - Figurehead Simon Gallup on Eccleshall 335 Bass!!!!! Wow!

[vandalxd]

the best bass player ever...his sound is unique and incredible

[DellianaoftheSea]

This is nice.

[MrSach0611]

It was really better when he was playing with the musicman stingray.

[basehead617]

what a wimpy boring drum performance

[vegas532]

I don't know if this was ever pointed out, but the bass in the video is actually a custom Schecter. They only built two of these...Blasko, of all people, has the other.

[ceruleansand]

@vegas532

Yes, it is indeed a Schechter. For some reason, many people think that Simon Gallup plays an Eccleshall, but I have no idea why. As far as 335-style basses go, he's used:

1) a short scale Gibson EB-2 with an extra pickup, probably EMG (see Just Like Heaven video and Play Out video)

2) a pair of long scale basses custom made by Dick Knight, one black, one white (see Show and Trilogy concerts)

3) a gold-top Epiphone Jack Casady (also in Trilogy)

4) this non-production Schechter

[noisyrag]

These actually sounds pretty good without keyboards. They should do another album like Pornography. Anything else sounds stupid without keyboards. I don't ever want to hear Porl play the keyboard parts on his guitar again. That's just a waste of his talent.

[bassmanjoe]

Nice!!! Just like the old days!!! A three piece. Sounds great!!! Nice and raw!!!

[lowlockunknown]

Does bass get any better than this ? WHOLY CRAP !

[rask1987]

do you know how much a bass like simons cost? i been to the website but no prices,im sure its up there in price but ive seen a few differnt types two from simon and one from peter hook from new order.just like to have a great bass like that,so anything you can tell me, be helpful thank u

[SmallParticleWaves]

Hi!

Yes i have contact with Mr. Eccleshall. A brand new order for exactly that piece is 3.500 BPounds (about 4.000 Euro). He's building the bass in a few months if you order one.

Greetings!

Bartek

[SmallParticleWaves]

@rask1987 yes, is exactly 3400 Britisch pounds and 6 months waiting time :-)

[warminator]

Wow! This is about over 20 years later, and it`s played just as fresh sounding like on the album version.

[blackpearl844]

pornography and disintegration best albums ever ... wısh i see them new album

[shakedydogshake]

It's absolutely pathetic, after all these years, how people just keep on bitching and and twitching and flipping out over The Cure's drumming - drummers and the whole pointless debate over who sucks/who was the best/is the best blah blah blah. The Cure is not about any one particular musical instrument! The Cure has always been about feeling and expression and being it's own individual musical force. You want to debate about drummers, then go get on the Rush/Metallica/Led Zep/etc threads.....

[ajittffcure]

@shakedydogshake- Exactly! I second that.

[LordBenton08]

"I can lose myself in chinese art and american girls."

Man what poetry! Genius. The Cure as a trio.

Amazing! ... just like on "Pornography" in 1982.

Cool!

[pacure]

After I´ve saw Cooper playing the drums, come to my memory the next phrase..."Smith is a wanker, Tolhurst is a wanker only Simon is worth anything in this band!!..."

Just change the Tolhurst for Cooper.

[joshuacrime]

Terribly sorry, but the new drummer is just as good as anyone they've ever had behind the kit. Hell, some of the best songs on Pornography are done with drum machines, FFS.

There's always this pang of nostalgia everyone has for the "old days", but Jason is an outstanding drummer. This is not a drum-led band anyway. It's a bass-led band.

[esjakeis86]

i love Simon!

[ramonesaudibert]

Sharp and open, leave me alone and sleeping less every night. As the days become heavier and weighted, waiting In the cold light. A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten with spiders inside them and dust on the lips of a vision of hell; I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year.

thank you, the cure.

[darkrebel09]

Simon is WONDERFUL!!!

[uigweyi8eguigf]

i agree with you guys,Boris was Boris

[michaelPMar]

jason cant even match Lol's playing!!!!!

the cure needs a better drummer indeed. they lost A LOT when Boris decided to leave the band...

[SmallParticleWaves]

Yes, you're absolutely right. I wish they could go back to the roots of the "cure" sound....

[esjakeis86]

very true. jason isn't very good at all! Lol was great. i mean, he was part of all 8 amazing songs! but Boris, he could not only play the Porno songs, but made them almost into his own. The paris version of Figurehead is phenomenal. and One hundred Years...that performance is sooo powerful! sometimes hard to listen to.

[praecinctum]

This is bullshit.

[praecinctum]

The fact that you honestly believe that Lol was a good drummer shows you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

[TORXM]

Well said. Jason is a far better drummer than Lol ever was.

[saphira1001]

Lol was a good enough drummer in his own way. All of the drummers they've had have their own style and are better with some songs than others