Flea has nothing but praise for musicman basses

[Moondog]

Flea playing a maple board?
never seen that until now

 

[Bill]

One of my favorite players (and very light)
I'm taking very good care of her for you

Thanks, Ken! She's a good one!

 

[cat_empire]

hey, i was just listening to stadium arcadium and thought that thre were a number of tracks in which the bass sounded like a musicman. i thought they were

charlie
torture me
especially in michigan
warlocks
c'mon girl
21st century
readymade
so much i

if you have the album just give these tracks a listen and tell me what you think, but to me they definetly have that musicman oomph to the bass which is lacking in some of the other tracks where im guessing the fender jazz is used. there may be no musicmmen on this album, it could be his modulus, but yeh, these ones just caught my attention.

 

[lowmid]

It definatly has the flea fingers growl!!!! that's what 'im saying, but they're straight jazz tones to me but it's not really your childish usual JB tone, it's flea's JB....i'd sell it thought to get myself a Ray

 

[JB1]

I think flea playing the fenders just didnt make sense in my book. If he recorded the new album with em, thats fine, but live performances would be a little weird for me. I am hopefully seeing them in october, so we'll see what he is playing. I am just used to Flea rocking the one pickup basses . Part of the reason I fell in love with black/black is because of his black/black/rosewood sr4.

+1 on the black/black/rosewood, dude.

I saw them last week, he used the sunburst modulus and it cut through just dandy - not sure the jazz would have.

On the FOH guy front, perhaps he just got used to the modulus. Flea has the endorsement too, so perhaps Modulus had a word......?

 

[JB1]

It was about money. Strong rumor says he used Sting rays on some tracks on the new record.

Time to make an MM 'Flearay' bass BP, c'mon!

 

[JB1]

Mmm I saw that... then he shows his wall of basses and talks about every single bass BAR the EBMM on his wall...

Sounded great considering it was unplugged - that's one of the big attractions of an MM for me - an electric that kicks butt acoustically as well...

Got any links?

 

[azzy_wazzy]

Got any links?

The link I think was on the 1st or 2nd page of this thread.... something to do with bassplayer.tv I think...

 

[JB1]

Yep - gottit - thanks aZZY

 

[tiffles]

i checked in to see if this was still on topic....it is.... and i dont know why but im strangely dissapointed. its like leaving a classroom full of kids then coming back to find themj doing extra credit homework...

 

[jongitarz]

Somewhere, I have photos of me playing a Modulus Flea I owned in 2002.

Steve might remember. I had that thing for about twenty minutes.

 

[cat_empire]

i checked in to see if this was still on topic....it is.... and i dont know why but im strangely dissapointed. its like leaving a classroom full of kids then coming back to find themj doing extra credit homework...

hahahha, yeh it has stayed on topic for a while hasnt it, and i know what u mean about the classroom, a part of the fun of some topics is just seeing how OT it can go...