Geddy Lee and the Double Neck Bass
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Topic: Geddy Lee and the Double Neck Bass
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Subject: Geddy Lee and the Double Neck Bass
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 18:23
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I was watching the Rush Chronicles DVD yesterday, and the Limelight video, when I saw at one point Geddy was holding a double neck bass, one was a guitar, and one was a bass. What songs live did he play this instrument on? Does anybody have a clue? ------------- 
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 18:24
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Xanadu
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 18:25
That's what my first thought was. Thanks Reed. -------------
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Reed Lover wrote:
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 18:41
| Not the first - Danbo get your Hellborg photos out again. And the great jazz bassist Miroslav Vitous during his short jazz rock/funk period in the late 70's was photographed for the front cover of his album Magical Shepherd (reissued on CD 2003r, and also featuring Herbie Hancock and Jack DeJohnette) with a double-necked lead/bass guitar. And even Mike Rutherford....................... |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 18:52
| Besides Xanadu, I think a lot of their early material he had a double neck guitar/bass too. At least from 2112 to Hemispheres he used one. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 19:01
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^Not so,the first time he used the double-neck was on A Farewell To Kings. Geddy was the first to have a Rickenbacker Double-Neck,I believe. -------------
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Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 19:27
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Hey reed, you seem to be up on Geddy and his bass stuff, I had a quick question. The bass solo in the Trees, after the 1st verse, is one of my alltime favorite bass solos. What kind of aeffect is he using there? |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 20:34
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^ sounds like a phaser to me, but I could be wrong. Reed, can you clear this one up? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 20:56
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You must mean this one:
Strange? They both appear to be 4 string basses. Must be alternate tunnings.... both are fretted too. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 20:58
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Is this the picture?
Maybe the one in the stand?
Ah ha, this is it, eh?
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 21:02
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More Jonas Hellborg:\
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 21:03
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Ain't this one purty?
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 21:40
That was the guitar that he was using, different picture (it was a moving picture, really- no pun intended though- because it was a clip in the Limelight video) though. -------------
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 22:43
Actually, on 'Xanadu' Geddy plays a double neck bass and 12-string electric guitar. During the very last section, he plays some arpeggios on 12-string while Lifeson delivers the final melodic lines. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 23:03
Thanks, I was just about to ask in which part of Xanadu does Geddy play the guitar. -------------
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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 23:50
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cool pics
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Posted By: Progman192
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 00:18
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I do believe that Mike Rutherford had one of the first Rickenbaker double necks. Check photos from the Gabriel era!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 04:42
Actually , I also think that Rutherford had one before him. It was a 12 strings and bass too. I saw recently a fun foto (but the comments were depicting prog) of both Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson playing double nech guitars (Lifeson's was a white Gibson SG if I remember well) How about John Paul Jones's triple neck guitar?!?! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 05:54
Don't make me bring Rick Nielsen into this!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 06:03
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That would a cheap shot! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 06:04
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Found it |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 11:46
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Cheap stuff really!!!!Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 12:08
I think you mean Cheap sh*t. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 13:16
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Hey guy don't trick me into using unacceptable words here.................. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 17:23
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Hey James,could be a phaser, a tasar or a photon torpedo for all I know! -------------
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 17:27
Yeah,could be right about that Sean! Says Ged: "I also use a custom Rickenbacker double-neck guitar-bass, the bass is a model 4001 and the guitar is a standard Rickenbacker twelve string with humbucking pickups.." He also used a double-neck Rickenbacker, incorporating 4001 with six-string guitar on the Moving Pictures Tour. -------------
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 17:30
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 19:17
What a showoff! Who needs a a five neck guitar? -------------
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 03:48
Wow!! I had forgotten about that!!! excellent but definitely not nostalgic laugh. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 21 2005 at 08:36
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^ I want to see him play the bottom one!! My favorite double neck player (even tho these shots aren't so good)
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