Mark White Spin doctors Fancy bass

[Lynottfan]

The thread earlier about Nick beggs got me a thinkin' *(sorry all) I remember really rating Mark White of the Spin Doctors back in the day, in fact he is still doing some great stuff iirc. One of his basses that stuck in my mind was his very fancy multi coloured stingray SR4, lefty to, any one else remember this very eye catching Ray?

 

[kirkm24]

My daughter was watching an old Sesame Street clip that they were on from back in the early 90's and he was playing an Ibanez ATK in that clip which looks similar to a Stingray but it was definitely an ATK.

 

[tombboy]

 

[GWDavis28]

Very cool!!!

Glenn |B)

 

[Lynottfan]

Thats the one, crazy looking bass, love it.

 

[Duarte]

This has been discussed before a few times, and there is some info about the bass. I'm sure a search will yield good results, but yes that bass looks PHAT.

 

[MARKWHITE]

That is one of the four Music Man basses I bought from Manny's in NYC. Ever since I saw louis Johnson with a Music Man bass, I wanted one. But left handed ones were impossible to find. After freaking 10 years of waiting, Ernie Ball finally started making them. Two of them are painted like that rainbow bass, One is painted bee yellow, I'm about to put a Status Graphite neck on that one. The last one I left alone and it's black. I put a Pen sur preamp in the that rainbow and the yellow along with bassline pickups. Sounds like an old style Music Man now. No midrange knob. I kept the four Knobs on there and the last one is a dummy knob for when somebody asks me to turn something down or up. These are truly amazing basses, it's a total funk machine.

 

[mmbassplayer]

Welcome Mark... in 1994 you gave some advise to a young aspiring bass player "Do it for the chicks, not for the money!" Happy to say i am still not making any money (but happily married now). Hope all has been well. JOSH

 

[Hellboy]

That is one of the four Music Man basses I bought from Manny's in NYC. Ever since I saw louis Johnson with a Music Man bass, I wanted one. But left handed ones were impossible to find. After freaking 10 years of waiting, Ernie Ball finally started making them. Two of them are painted like that rainbow bass, One is painted bee yellow, I'm about to put a Status Graphite neck on that one. The last one I left alone and it's black. I put a Pen sur preamp in the that rainbow and the yellow along with bassline pickups. Sounds like an old style Music Man now. No midrange knob. I kept the four Knobs on there and the last one is a dummy knob for when somebody asks me to turn something down or up. These are truly amazing basses, it's a total funk machine.

Hi and welcome. Good fun. I really like the Spin Doctors. I have "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" and "Turn It Upside Down" in the cd shelf. Great music. I don´t think the other records where released here in Sweden unfortunately. At least I never found them in any stores. Will check iTunes.

I laughed hard when I read about the dummy knob. Very funny. I do the exact same thing working as a sound engineer quite often. Turn a knob that doesn´t do anything and all of a sudden everyone is happy again. The power of suggestion. Amazing but it works.

Good fun that you are here.

Sincerely//Jan

 

[Colin]

Welcome Mark!

 

[Cartmanr0cks]

haha, awesome, a dummy knob. Just wanted to say, I'm a great fan of your basslines with the spin doctors.

 

[five7]

That is one of the four Music Man basses I bought from Manny's in NYC. Ever since I saw louis Johnson with a Music Man bass, I wanted one. But left handed ones were impossible to find. After freaking 10 years of waiting, Ernie Ball finally started making them. Two of them are painted like that rainbow bass, One is painted bee yellow, I'm about to put a Status Graphite neck on that one. The last one I left alone and it's black. I put a Pen sur preamp in the that rainbow and the yellow along with bassline pickups. Sounds like an old style Music Man now. No midrange knob. I kept the four Knobs on there and the last one is a dummy knob for when somebody asks me to turn something down or up. These are truly amazing basses, it's a total funk machine.

Welcome, thanks for posting!!!

 

[oli@bass]

Wow, did I see that right, Mark White just joined the forum?!

Very cool! Very much like Jan, I've never hear anything beside "A Pocketful of Kryptonite" but I always dug the bass playing and tone on that one.

 

[MrMusashi]

welcome to the forum mr white

its cool to hear the story directly from the source!

MrM

 

[jlepre]

Hi Mark,

Welcome!

I will have to see if I can utilize that dummy knob system.


Hey BP! Can we make that a new option?

 

[CW Zing]

O.K. I'm finally going to ask: what's the sweatband on the headstock for?

 

[fly]

found a vid sportin' that bass.....looks like a whammy on it at 1:58


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfwo_c8AzxE&feature=channel]YouTube - Spin Doctors - She Used To Be Mine[/ame]

 

[CW Zing]

Turn a knob that doesn´t do anything and all of a sudden everyone is happy again.

...the last one is a dummy knob for when somebody asks me to turn something down or up.

This is the real secret to getting along with bandmates/engineers/producers, huh?

 

[todddlur]

that's not a musicman he's using in that video it's an ibanez ATK.

 

[Lynottfan]

A Status graphite neck is good call, they are the best, I swear by them, not sure if they make a lefty one though, so if you put a righty one on your bass it is going to look even more crazy with an upside down headstock, rock on man.