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Si ma mémoire est bonne, Entwistle expliquait qu'il adorait les cordes des Danelectros et qu'il n'en trouvait pas dans le commerce.
Donc chaque fois qu'il cassait une corde, il rachetait une Danelectro :D.

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C'est tout à fait ça, la fameuse anecdote à propos de l'enregistrement de My Generation :

“I bought this Danelectro bass and it had these tiny, thin wirewound strings on. They were so thin, they sounded just like a piano, an unbelievably clear sound. The only thing was that you couldn’t buy these strings. When we recorded ‘My Generation,’ I ended up with three of these Danelectros just for the strings. The last one I had, the string busted before we actually got into the studio to re-record it, so I did it on a Fender Jazz in the end with tape-wound La bella strings.”

“I played that solo on a Jazz bass with tapewound strings through a Marshall 50 watt and 4×12. Interestingly, the bass solos on the earlier takes were much more complicated, and played on a Danelectro which had a much more piano-like sound. It was a medium scale bass with a two-octave neck. The trouble was that the strings were so thin that I kept breaking them. We’d record during the day and, to finance the sessions, we were playing gigs nearly every night, and inevitably I’d break a string. None of the music shops had any replacement strings and no string manufacturers made replacement strings thin enough for Dano basses then, so I had to go down to Marshall’s and buy a new Dano for £60. I ended up with three new Danelectros, all with busted strings! In the end I busted my last string at the third attempt and there weren’t any more in the country. I thought, ‘Fuck it’, and went and bought myself a Fender Jazz bass and a set of La Bella strings, and played the solo with that. But it was a different sound and a simplified, slowed-down version of the solos on previous takes.”

 

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C'est la combinaison 27" / Lipsticks qui me gratte le plus les doigts en ce moment... Hésitation avec une 30"...

Mais je suis de plus en plus fan de la marque. 

A ce propos (en gratte) il y a une DC59 a 250€ sur lbc...

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