Elton John in Vegas: Look at the bass

[Rick Auricchio]

By golly, it's one of them basses made in San Luis Obispo, California!

According to this article, it's Bob Birch on bass.

Elton John starts 3-year Las Vegas run at Caesars

 

[douglasspears]

I saw the Elton John/Billy Joel concert a few years ago, and yeah, this dude was playing a MM. You could totally tell the difference when compared to Joel's bassist's Fender.

 

[Golem]

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FWIW I saw/heard Maceo Parker last friday and the band was driven
by Marcus Parker on drums and Rodney Curtis on an SR5 [HS, SVT, &
4x10]. PR photos show Curtis with a Lakie, but I spoze that he's very
recently 'seen the light' ? Waaaaaaay baddass show BTW.


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[Jason Hebert]

Bob has been Elton's bassist for 20 years or so, and MM basses are all I've seen him play. Someone posted a sick Buckeye Burl SR5 that was made for him not long ago. BTW, he's a great player..

 

[Mabongohogany]

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FWIW I saw/heard Maceo Parker last friday and the band was driven
by Marcus Parker on drums and Rodney Curtis on an SR5 [HS, SVT, &
4x10]. PR photos show Curtis with a Lakie, but I spoze that he's very
recently 'seen the light' ? Waaaaaaay baddass show BTW.


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Mmmm. Maceo Parker!!!

 

[drTStingray]

I have seen Bob Birch play several times with Elton John (in televised stuff) - his regular bass seems to have been an SR5H blue dawn, similar to DTG's but with black pearloid pg rather than white. Great sound (I'm pretty sure he was using single coil centre position on the switch).

I'm sure I read somewhere that he had a green MM bass of some description but Mr John didn't let him use it - I am guessing that instrument colours may be important to some major artists - anyway you can't get much better than blue dawn IMHO!

 

[jadams]

I googled his name... wiki entry:
Bob Birch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

smoking credits, just smokin... oh and there's a shot of his blue dawn/blue burst black pearloid equipped SR5 too

 

[Rano Bass]

Great player, he has always used SR5 basses.