Guild Starfire Bass with Dark Star pickup Demo (Hot Tuna style Blues)

Dark Star pickups were installed in my 67 Guild Starfire Bass.
The tune is Electric Hot Tuna at Fillmore style Blues :-)
I tried to make Jack Casady's over-driven bass sound.
And finally I chose Hartke Bass Attack preamp pedal.
To get Jack's fuzz-bass sound,this pedal is really nice,I think.


The Guitars : Crews ES-335 type
74 Fender Stratocaster

The fiddle : Miroslav Philharmonik Lite strings sound module. Over-layed the staccato sound on the normal solo violin via guitar amp simulator.

The drums : Toontrack EZ-drummer.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Guild
• Starfire
• Bass
• Darkstar
• pickup
• Hot
• Tuna
• Jack
• Casady
• Jorma
• Kaukonen
• Fillmore
• Miroslav
• Philharmonik

[hkyoutoob]

Good groove a feel to your session. My only suggestion is related to the bass sound. It needs to add some highs/treble to it, round-wound Roto-Sound Entwhistle-ish, if you will. That would give it the PUNCH it's missing in this video. From what I recall, Jack & Phil Lesh's basses were modified by Alembic, which gave them the distinguishing sound those players obtained. Crank it up! Feb.9 '11

[GOMENTE]

@hkyoutoob Thank you!! In that video,I used Pyramid flat wound that Jack used. Although he might use round-wound strings in certain term,I think he used flat-wound in the end of 60s.

This tune was recorded referring to the Live album "Filmore the last days"

So I think I should record the bass with amps. I would have got more punchy sound :-)

I won't use round-wound for this bass. Pyramid is the best.

Anyway thank you for watching!

[mikko1200]

@GOMENTE Nice playing.Thank You, I really enjoyed it. Are you using the standard Pyramid set? Long or short scale? I had a set of Pyramids, with their std short scale gauges but made for Starfire (std short scale set is too short). I never got that sound out of my bass with them. Or maybe the sound was there but it wasn´t coming out. Strings didn´t ring at all, they just said "thump".

[GOMENTE]

@mikko1200 Hi,Thank you for watching. I use short scale for this SF. Before I bought it, I was worried about the too short scale. But got no problems.  640 is the model number.

Thank you so much.

[atomicon3]

I liked the vid but it is a 'simple' song for the bass. I hope you don't stop making demos until you tackle a 'good' Casady song on that awesome bass...please..Mike

[GOMENTE]

@atomicon3 Haha..Thank you for suggestion.

Actually,when I thought of the demo for my modified Starfire Bass,I had to look for Hot Tuna tunes without vocals. However,it was only Water Song and I had made the demo of it already. So I decided to record this blues tune with another guitar instead of vocals.

Thank you.

[atomicon3]

You could try Mann's Fate? Your bass playing is almost spot-on.  I would like to see/hear you let loose with some drive and passion...you have the skills and the guitar/equipment....just wanna hear you play the hell out of that starfire!

[atomicon3]

You could try Mann's Fate?

[atomicon3]

..besides "Water Song", of course