Elton John - SR-5 sighting

[T-bone]

Elton John played Portland tonight, and I must say, it was difficult concentrating on him with the bassist in the back playing an SR-5. What's more, I believe he was playing through a Musicman 6/10. Couldn't see what the amp was, but based on everything else I saw, I'm pretty sure it was a Musicman too. Now here's the funny part. While I finally lost count how many times the guitar player changed guitars, the bass player changed only once. On the very last song. And what do you think he picked up - it was another SR-5. Only this one was black with a white pickguard.

Now why do you think he'd do that?

tbone

 

[ProgHead]

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Now why do you think he'd do that?

tbone

...the other SR5 was out of tune?...

 

[Rano Bass]

Now why do you think he'd do that?

tbone

Just to prove he can if he want's to
Now, seriously; maybe he needed a different tuning for that song.

 

[Bill]

Flats & roundwound strings? I saw Lenny Kravitz's bass player do that; he changed from a Jazz to another Jazz, though.

 

[Caca de Kick]

with the bassist in the back playing an SR-5

I remember seeing his pictures back in the early 90's and he was playing them then. Can't remember his name though, just that big flowing hairdoo...

 

[Dr Stankface]

Flats & roundwound strings? I saw Lenny Kravitz's bass player do that; he changed from a Jazz to another Jazz, though.

That's the only reason I can think of. That's the only reason I do it.

But what do I know? I'm just a teenager.

 

[Urwordsbreakmed]

...Maybe, So he could look cool

...oooooooorrrrrrrrrr maybe He has different EQ or the basses and he is very particular about not changing the tone of each bass?

 

[UKFIN]

I was watching the LIVE 8 DVD . During the Elton John set the bass player ( in full
shot most of the time) was playing a natural SR5 maple neck with Tort guard

 

[HornetAMX]

Bob Birch on bass. He's played SR5's as long as I can remember. I believe he joined Elton in '92. I've seen him play a Blueburst SR5 back in the 1990's.

 

[funky]

if he can why not ?

 

[roballanson]

There was a programme on the other night called Stiff at the BBC - about Stiff record label artists. Two stingrays on show: Madness - the guy was using an unlined Stingray, and Ian Dury's chap using a nice burst ray too.....

 

[Rano Bass]

Bob Birch on bass. He's played SR5's as long as I can remember. I believe he joined Elton in '92. I've seen him play a Blueburst SR5 back in the 1990's.

Bob Birch! thank's i couldn't remember his name, good player and almost always playing SR5's.

 

[CanadianBass]

Bob Birch in Toronto, Canada

Well.....I saw Elton John in concert Saturday night in Toronto, Canada. Amazing concert! Of course Bob Birch was playing bass for him. I was excited to see that he plays Stingray5's, as I have a natural colored SR5 with piezo, Maple neck and headstock and white pearloid pickguard. He had two of them. I was surprised to see that both of them were without piezo bridges. His main one for the night was natural with a maple neck and headstock & a black pickguard His backup was a black one with a rosewood neck, maple headstock and white perloid pickguard. His speaker cab looked to be an SWR Goliath Senior with 6x10 speakers and horn tweeter, with a four foot high rack that was loaded. SWR amp, Korg rackmount tuner, and a load of other stuff I couldn't make out.

 

[jongitarz]

The bass switch may have been from fretted to fretless...We just did some work for Bob on 2 SR5's. Fretted and toofless.

 

[CanadianBass]

That would make sense. His natural one is fretted, but the black one with the rosewood fingerboard would likely have been fretless. Now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing frets on it. Thanks for the info.

 

[PocketGroove82]

Maybe he wanted his bass to match eltons bigass glasses

 

[WesC]

It could've been from BEADG to EADGC too... maybe?