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| John Turner on Bass Retired 4 String Basses |
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Teeny
Weeny Itty Bitty Basses-John's
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So, tell me about those 4-string days. Do you still have any of your old basses? Actually, I have them all. My first bass was a Steinberger copy called an Alien, that i converted to fretless. |
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Then I got a Rickenbacker 4001, a white one. That was my first real bass, and boy I loved that bass. I used to be in a Rush/Maiden/Zeppelin cover band for a couple of years during college, and I played that bass then. |
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| I had a '77 Jazz then too, but I always played the Rickenbacker in the cover band. When that band ended, I started to get more into other types of music, and other styles of playing, and I started playing the jazz bass. |
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When I met Hal, I was playing the Jazz exclusively, and a few months after I met him, I got a Pedulla MVP lined fretless. That was in 1990-91. Then I got my first 7-string in '93, and then all the 4's went in the closet. (laughs) | |
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Don't you ever play them? Nope. I really just don't even like the way a 4 string feels - I like to say that they remind me of those big, fat crayons we used to color with when we were 5. I doubt that I will ever sell them, though, too much happy memories tied up in those basses. |
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