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Blazer
October 26th, 2011, 06:02 PM
Well with seemingly every bass player who's famous getting a signature model it must be said that with plenty of those basses are a pretty standard affair, there aren't really that many signature models where the player went "Right, I want something that's really out there."
So I figured it to be fun to talk about those signature basses that stand out.
And I'll start with Golden Earring bassist Rinus Gerritsen who has two Signature models made by Vox Humana guitars.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/RG%20S4//dsc00035.jpg
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/bassist/solobas01/solobassen01_550px.jpg
Now those familiar with Golden Earring's music know that Gerritsen has been and always will be a Dano-man having used his mid sixties Longhorn well into the late seventies when it was stolen during the tour they did with Aerosmith.
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Gerritsen live in 1968 doing a solo on his Dano.
Now that Dano had been modified to have a stereo Woofer-Tweeter set up via a Y-cable, him being one of the very first who came up with something like that. And that feature remained on all his basses ever since. So when Vox Humana approached him to do a signature bass he clearly knew what he wanted and what he didn't want: because the Dano was a disaster to use in the studio with its virtually non-existant intonation. The resulting Dano style basses come in either short or long scale and in Four or five string versions, with Sperzel locking tuners keeping everything in key.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/RG%20L5//dsc00007.jpg
The Five string Gerritsen Signature, note the twin outputs.
Now the second signature bass finds its origine even further back. It's based on a Bass that Gerritsen's dad had made him when he was a teenager.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/Rinus%20bas%20fretless%20Darwin//dsc00011.jpg
And he used that bass first as his main bass and after the dano came into play as his back up. During that time that bass was constantly modified and evolved so much that it eventually became known as "Darwin"
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/Rinus%20bas%20fretless%20Darwin//dsc00008.jpg
Now the Vox Humana Darwin again has the stereo woofer-tweeter set up and comes in long and short scale versions.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/solobas%20vintage%20geel//dsc00069.jpg
A Darwin ordered by the man himself, in Olympic white like his old Fender.
Those signature basses and the Darwins in particullar allowed Gerritsen to finally retire what is probably his best known bass.
http://golden-earring-museum.nl/afbeeldingen/052001.jpg
This monster was made by Gerritsen and his father to incorporate both the twang of a Dano and the punch of a Fender in one instrument and after his original Dano got stolen it became his main bass. It had the pickups of a Gibson Thunderbird coupled with Danelectro lipsticks and that's the pickup combination he stuck with.
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Gerritsen using his double neck in the early eighties.
That double neck is a pretty hefty piece of engineering, so with his Darwins now taking over his shoulders can finally get a break.
So I figured it to be fun to talk about those signature basses that stand out.
And I'll start with Golden Earring bassist Rinus Gerritsen who has two Signature models made by Vox Humana guitars.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/RG%20S4//dsc00035.jpg
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/bassist/solobas01/solobassen01_550px.jpg
Now those familiar with Golden Earring's music know that Gerritsen has been and always will be a Dano-man having used his mid sixties Longhorn well into the late seventies when it was stolen during the tour they did with Aerosmith.
qXXuR5bCoKk
Gerritsen live in 1968 doing a solo on his Dano.
Now that Dano had been modified to have a stereo Woofer-Tweeter set up via a Y-cable, him being one of the very first who came up with something like that. And that feature remained on all his basses ever since. So when Vox Humana approached him to do a signature bass he clearly knew what he wanted and what he didn't want: because the Dano was a disaster to use in the studio with its virtually non-existant intonation. The resulting Dano style basses come in either short or long scale and in Four or five string versions, with Sperzel locking tuners keeping everything in key.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/RG%20L5//dsc00007.jpg
The Five string Gerritsen Signature, note the twin outputs.
Now the second signature bass finds its origine even further back. It's based on a Bass that Gerritsen's dad had made him when he was a teenager.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/Rinus%20bas%20fretless%20Darwin//dsc00011.jpg
And he used that bass first as his main bass and after the dano came into play as his back up. During that time that bass was constantly modified and evolved so much that it eventually became known as "Darwin"
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/Rinus%20bas%20fretless%20Darwin//dsc00008.jpg
Now the Vox Humana Darwin again has the stereo woofer-tweeter set up and comes in long and short scale versions.
http://www.voxhumana.nl/cms/images/stories/rinus/solobas%20vintage%20geel//dsc00069.jpg
A Darwin ordered by the man himself, in Olympic white like his old Fender.
Those signature basses and the Darwins in particullar allowed Gerritsen to finally retire what is probably his best known bass.
http://golden-earring-museum.nl/afbeeldingen/052001.jpg
This monster was made by Gerritsen and his father to incorporate both the twang of a Dano and the punch of a Fender in one instrument and after his original Dano got stolen it became his main bass. It had the pickups of a Gibson Thunderbird coupled with Danelectro lipsticks and that's the pickup combination he stuck with.
AzS0kPlZZ0U
Gerritsen using his double neck in the early eighties.
That double neck is a pretty hefty piece of engineering, so with his Darwins now taking over his shoulders can finally get a break.