Danelectro's on which 50's and 60's records?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:36 pm

I got this 1998 Danelectro 56-U2 last week and I was looking at this Danelectro ad from the 90's that said:

"thousands of records from the 50's and 60's feature it's "signature sound".

Is that true or did they just make that stuff up?

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:52 pm

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:56 pm

Garage stuff? I honestly have no clue, besides Link Wray and his long-horn.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:19 pm

A lot of records from the 50's and 60's have a Danelectro sound but it's mostly the bass "tic-tac" sound that they did a lot in country music.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:30 pm

some famous users here - dank

Dano havejust done a re-issue of the one used by Eric Clapton in Cream and a 59 used by Jimmy Page (Jimmy Page talks about some records he used it on here)

LimpDickCheney · Post by **LimpDickCheney** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:44 am

A few songs by Proposition Eight and the Gaybashers.

cur · Post by **cur** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:56 am

How to Rawk an longhorn bass.[youtube][/youtube]

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:44 am

I THINK THE SOLO ON WICHITA LINEMAN WAS PLAYED ON A DANO [arg! capslockckckckc] bass, if i remember. campbell is also a notorious religious hater of homosexuals, so maybe he was seeing into the future.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:55 am

Nope, that's a Bass VI. But nice try.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:57 am

it's a bass VI on that youtube clip, not on the recording.

The bass solo was played by Campbell himself on a Danelectro six-string bass borrowed from friend and session bassist Carol Kaye; the pulsing effect is tremolo from a Fender amplifier. On a 1969 appearance on the Smothers Brothers TV show, Campbell played the solo on a Fender Bass VI six-string bass guitar.

so swivel on that.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:14 pm

Unless you can correctly attribute that quote, it's only WORDS IN THE WIND, wee man.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:47 pm

obviously it's anecdotal (from wikipedia), but we've all seen plenty bands poncing about on top of the pops mysteriously getting piano sounds out of organs, so something used in a mimed performance is no more evidence of what's on the record than said anecdote.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:53 pm

I know. I'd just always assumed it was a Bass VI. The rest of my questioning was purely because you look so cute when you get a bee in your bonnet.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:54 pm

*shakes fist*

gpselmer · Post by **gpselmer** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:55 pm

as long as it's been played by Jimmy Page, it sounds far enough to me....