Cheap Trick - 12 String Bass Solo - 88

Cheap Trick - 12 String Bass Solo - Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick performing a solo of the Beatles song "Within You,Without You". 1988 Spring Break in Daytona Beach,Fla.

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• Cheap
• Trick
• 12
• String
• Bass
• Solo
• Tom
• Petersson
• Robin
• Zander
• Bun
• E.
• Carlos
• Rick
• Nielsen

[porkrollsammy]

MTV edited the concert and gave you what they thought were the "best parts"....they should know,they are music television,right?

[GottaWatchShit]

Fuck MTV.

[chuckbojaxon]

yeah. its like a twelve string guitar. the strings are just trippled together instead of doubled.

[ebay9302]

Tom is the best bass player on the planet and a nice guy! Spoken by "The Bluesman" and spoken well. If anyone disagrees I will put you in the hospital PUNKS.

[tdearsan]

has anybody picked up that he's playing an old george harrison song?

[sevenismagicman]

i LOVE the sound of 12 string basses! of the 9 times i saw king's x, i only say doug play one once. i saw monty colvin play 4, 8 and 12 string basses with the galalctic cowboys. there was a band in winston salem, nc called motorfinger, who's bass player had a 12 string. and some power pop band from asheville whose bass player had a hamer 12. those are the only bands i have seen play them. i've always wanted to pick one up and play it!

[petersm69]

The sound of these things is amazing

[TalbotAlligator]

John Paul Jones' 12-string basses are quite different.

Petersson plays what some people call a 4x3 12-string bass. that is 4 courses of tripled strings.

Petersson never left "4 strings", he just added more and more octave strings.

first a 4x2 8-string, then a 4x3 12-string.

Jones plays a 6x2 12-string bass. 6 courses of doubled strings, just like a 12-string guitar.

Jones played an 8-string (4x2), and from there started adding more courses.

first a 5x2 10-string, then a 6x2 12-string.

[BadComrade]

@Producersman Wrong. The bass strings are tuned the same way you tune a 4-string bass: EADG. The two octave strings above each bass string are tuned in unison one octave higher than the bass strings. I own the world's only all-aluminum 12-string bass. Guess who just ordered the world's second? Yup, Tom Petersson. They're built by Electrical Guitar Company. Mine's shaped like one of Tom's old Quad basses, Tom's will be a standard EGC body flipped upside down, with a gold pick guard.

[rickyodom]

@6672rock Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

[WhatSayestThou]

Empty Vee.

[kc7fys]

Is it true the there is a V on the middle string of the triple group? I assumed it was fundamental and two unison octaves. Either way, it's a GREAT foundation to this band's unique sound--not necessarily suitable for a solo, though. Tremoloing through a few notes while rocking back and forth--but I do love their sound.

[MrJustMeAndMyself]

This is so old... Look at the shorts the guy holding the cable is wearing!