Richard Sinclair Bass
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Topic: Richard Sinclair Bass
Posted By: Drudelo
Subject: Richard Sinclair Bass
Date Posted: August 29 2011 at 16:54
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Does anyone know which basses Richard Sinclair, of Caravan, primarily played? I love his bass work and am very interested to know. |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 07:37
| I believe he played a Fender Jazz or Precision. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 07:54
| Looking at various photos on t'Internet, it looks more like a Jazz. |
Posted By: Drudelo
Date Posted: August 30 2011 at 16:19
| Thank you, I am considering buying a bass and was looking at the Squire Vintage Jazz bass. |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 15:07
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Drudelo wrote:Posted By: pitfall
Date Posted: July 06 2012 at 18:04
| Richards's bass is a Fender Jazz neck on a body built by his father, based on a Jazz bass. He's been using the same one, with various mods for most of his career. |
Posted By: Josh18293
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 13:12
| Like everyone ever... |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 06:25
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Man oh man, just listen to Richard's tone on the amazing 'Rotter's Club' album (Hatfield and the North) - superb sound and incredible playing - possibly his finest hour. He switched to fretless when he joined Camel (or did he just remove the frets from his beloved yellow Fender Jazz ??) |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 06:29
Is it just me, or does Sinclair have a totally different bass sound on `Grey and Pink' than on `Waterloo Lily'? I mean, they sound nothing like eachother! I'm sure someone can provide a perfectly plausable explanation for it? 
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:07
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Sinclair plays a Jazz I believe sounds great. From the few Squier Vintage Jazz, they play fab and are as good as any other Fender frankly. Then again I'm just not a "gear freak" so people might disagree with me. But in my opinion it's great. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:34
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Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 23:06
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 06 2012 at 01:05
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Posted By: boysmithers
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 15:23
Also, picking closer to the bridge (rather than closer to the neck) will give you more of a"woh-woh" sound - I love to do this with the mid-boost you talk about! I'm listening to Waterloo Lily right now, BTW. He really rampages all over this album! EDIT - just seen this picture on his artist page here! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2758" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2758 Looks like a precision bass pick up at the neck (well, the middle really) and a jazz bass pickup at the bridge. I'm sure he plays a normal jazz on the German TV clips with Caravan though. EDIT 2 - I did a search for him on www.talkbass.com (a bass player's forum!) there's a great thread with some great pics here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/whos-daddy-richard-sinclair-thats-who-741368/" rel="nofollow - http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/whos-daddy-richard-sinclair-thats-who-741368/
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Posted By: pitfall
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 17:02
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He's a very underrated bass player - and singer as well! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 14 2013 at 17:33
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Hi, Fender Deluxe P Bass Special 4-String Bass is the equivalent of this and almost the same thing that Mike Howlett plays ... but they both look like a Precision, not the typical Jazz design. The nexk in that special is the Jazz bass neck, by the way. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass/fender-american-deluxe-precision-bass" rel="nofollow -  Richard's definitly looks like a Custom made design off the Jazz Bass. Friend of mine also suggested changing the Precision PickUps to Seymour Duncan for a beef'ier sound, and I honestly do not know a thing about pickups ... I'm just silly enough to think that the pickups don't matter that much anymore as you can do everything else on the rack these days! Mike Howlett's is definitly the small version, and looks to be almost the same as the Mexican build. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 15 2013 at 01:28
| Mike Howlett is an awesome bassist - but Sinclair is better !! He kicks ass on Waterloo Lily and he is just mind-blowing on Hatfield's 'Rotter's Club' album. He is very under-rated as a bassist - so is Mike H (who just totally blows on GonG's 'Shamal' album - great voice too). |
Posted By: pitfall
Date Posted: April 20 2013 at 17:14
| Richards bass has a Fender Jazz neck with a Jazz style body made by his dad. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 20 2013 at 17:18
Caravan of Dreams is the best ... but some of the stuff in there is played by Hugh Hopper, not him. Some awesome stuff in there ... ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 22 2013 at 00:51
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Richard plays some superb fretless on the Gowen/Miller/Sinclair/Tomkins album 'Before A Word Is Said'.
Not to mention his bass on the Camel albums - the tune 'Echoes' has exquisite lines from Rich. Not bad for a carpenter
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