Chris Wolstenholme - Muse

Last updated on 15 years ago
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Alec
Junior Member
Posted 15 years ago
Anyone notice Chris Wolstenholme playing what looks like a S2 headless 4 string for the opening song at the Teignmouth gig currently showing on the BBC's red button?

Gave me quite a smile, though he reverts to his other basses for the remaining songs that they're showing in that short loop.

Will keep my eye out when I see Muse at the O2 in Nov to see what he's playing then.
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bassbus
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
Yeh, I noticed that. Just to be pedantic I think it might be a series II.
andreandre
Admin
Posted 15 years ago
Indeed it is ...
andreandre
Admin
Posted 15 years ago
Indeed it is ... check it out in this video from Taratata (French TV show) at 00:37 and more thereafter

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Edited by andre on 24-10-2009 20:54, 15 years ago
moomoo
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
That is a very very early Series II I would stick my neck out and say it's a re-badged Strata due to the 'shiny' knobs!

oooooo matron!!

If only we lived in a world where the crap in the movies was true... I could access a spy satellite and zoom in on the bass through several thick brick walls and read the S/N!!

:D

Or just ask him I suppose!
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dreambass
Senior Member
Posted 15 years ago
Does anyone know what kind of tunings he uses?
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andreandre
Admin
Posted 15 years ago
BGM 48 November 09
Muse Interview
Page 26
"I've got this embarrassing Status headless bass that looks awful but sounds brilliant, so I used that on a couple of tracks ad well."

:(
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bassbus
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
So it's not just Muse's music I lost faith in!:@
moomoo
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago

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andre wrote:
BGM 48 November 09
Muse Interview
Page 26
"I've got this embarrassing Status headless bass that looks awful but sounds brilliant, so I used that on a couple of tracks ad well."

:(


K I L L H I M

:@
Strata #05 - Status Series II #94 - Status Series II #147 - Status Series II #230 - Status Series II #487 - Status Series II 5 string #58 - Status Series 2000 #106 - Status Series 2000 #327 (FPPR) - Status Empathy #2009 ’93 - Status Empathy 5 string '95 - Status King Bass '06 moo wood - Status King Bass '07 moo wood fretless - Alembic MK Sig Deluxe '88 - Alembic Inside Out Brown Bass ’11 - JayDee Series I 'Starchild' '08 - JayDee Series I Cherry Red ’19 - Sei Bass Flamboyant - Sei Bass Flamboyant Offset - Ibanez SR2600 ’18 - Ibanez SRMS 805 ’19 - Ibanez SR1405 ’19 - Vigier Passion Series I #623 '88 - Vigier Arpege Series II #249 '84 - Vigier Arpege Series III #088 '86 - Shuker Custom Series 2 ‘08 - Warwick Thumb 4 TN '89
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bassbus
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
I don't think we need to be that kind to him. Clearly keeping him alive will make him suffer even more from embarassment.

"sounds brilliant" so that's why he smothers it in distortion or whatever it is.
Edited by bassbus on 29-10-2009 23:43, 15 years ago
Posted 15 years ago
That's disappointing, I always thought he was so open towards basses that don't look like your plain old Fender. Also, didn't he recently come up with the amazing piece of wisdom that slapping has never been cool? Looks like someone has a bit of growing up to do.

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BassBus wrote:
"sounds brilliant" so that's why he smothers it in distortion or whatever it is.

I was thinking that as well.
Edited by magicalsoundshower on 30-10-2009 00:23, 15 years ago
Phantom NINPhantom NIN
Junior Member
Posted 15 years ago
On a positive note, the bass player of one of the biggest bands in the world plays a status not becuase of look, but because of sound.
That got Status a mention in two different bass mags (it's listed as one of his main basses in US Bass player mag).
andreandre
Admin
Posted 15 years ago

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Phantom NIN wrote:
On a positive note, the bass player of one of the biggest bands in the world plays a status not becuase of look, but because of sound.
That got Status a mention in two different bass mags (it's listed as one of his main basses in US Bass player mag).


Yep that is a positive note and his Series II looks pretty cool I think !
andreandre
Admin
Posted 15 years ago
moomoo
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
Jaco would have used a Status if he hadn't been such a fruit and nutcase!!

:D
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Slapmonsta
Junior Member
Posted 15 years ago
"And then just as a joke, somebody said, “Why don’t you just try playing slap bass?” So I did it, and initially everyone was laughing their asses off. Then we went back and listened to it, and we thought, “If we make the sound edgy enough, it could actually sound quite cool.” So we put a Hematoma pedal on it. I had a very slight, top-endy distortion to crunch it up a little. Obviously the danger with slap bass is if you go for that super-clean, twangy, “nice” bass sound, it ends up sounding like Level 42."


Yaeh right,Chris.... dis the L42 sound all you want...like no-one's ever had the incredibly original thought of putting distortion on their bass before Muse,have they?:(

moomoo
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago

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Slapmonsta wrote:
"And then just as a joke, somebody said, “Why don’t you just try playing slap bass?” So I did it, and initially everyone was laughing their asses off. Then we went back and listened to it, and we thought, “If we make the sound edgy enough, it could actually sound quite cool.” So we put a Hematoma pedal on it. I had a very slight, top-endy distortion to crunch it up a little. Obviously the danger with slap bass is if you go for that super-clean, twangy, “nice” bass sound, it ends up sounding like Level 42."


Yaeh right,Chris.... dis the L42 sound all you want...like no-one's ever had the incredibly original thought of putting distortion on their bass before Muse,have they?:(



:D :D :D :D :D
Strata #05 - Status Series II #94 - Status Series II #147 - Status Series II #230 - Status Series II #487 - Status Series II 5 string #58 - Status Series 2000 #106 - Status Series 2000 #327 (FPPR) - Status Empathy #2009 ’93 - Status Empathy 5 string '95 - Status King Bass '06 moo wood - Status King Bass '07 moo wood fretless - Alembic MK Sig Deluxe '88 - Alembic Inside Out Brown Bass ’11 - JayDee Series I 'Starchild' '08 - JayDee Series I Cherry Red ’19 - Sei Bass Flamboyant - Sei Bass Flamboyant Offset - Ibanez SR2600 ’18 - Ibanez SRMS 805 ’19 - Ibanez SR1405 ’19 - Vigier Passion Series I #623 '88 - Vigier Arpege Series II #249 '84 - Vigier Arpege Series III #088 '86 - Shuker Custom Series 2 ‘08 - Warwick Thumb 4 TN '89
moomoo
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
AND while talking of 'ugly' instruments... What the **** is the guitarist playing??

I think I made something like that in 4th year woodwork! And let's not forget... I spent most of the 4th year drunk as an Irish footballer!!
Strata #05 - Status Series II #94 - Status Series II #147 - Status Series II #230 - Status Series II #487 - Status Series II 5 string #58 - Status Series 2000 #106 - Status Series 2000 #327 (FPPR) - Status Empathy #2009 ’93 - Status Empathy 5 string '95 - Status King Bass '06 moo wood - Status King Bass '07 moo wood fretless - Alembic MK Sig Deluxe '88 - Alembic Inside Out Brown Bass ’11 - JayDee Series I 'Starchild' '08 - JayDee Series I Cherry Red ’19 - Sei Bass Flamboyant - Sei Bass Flamboyant Offset - Ibanez SR2600 ’18 - Ibanez SRMS 805 ’19 - Ibanez SR1405 ’19 - Vigier Passion Series I #623 '88 - Vigier Arpege Series II #249 '84 - Vigier Arpege Series III #088 '86 - Shuker Custom Series 2 ‘08 - Warwick Thumb 4 TN '89
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Slapmonsta
Junior Member
Posted 15 years ago
"Muse-speak"..what Chris "my head is stuck up my arse alongside my Behringer overdrive pedal" Wolstenholme really meant....

"And then just as a joke, somebody said, “Why don’t you just try playing slap bass?” So I did it, and initially everyone was laughing their asses off. (at my utter ineptitude)
Then we went back and listened to it, and we thought, “If we make the sound edgy enough, it could actually sound quite cool.” (I actually quite like the sound of this,but I'm a little out of my blinkered little bass "zone" so I better not enjoy it too much)
So we put a Hematoma pedal on it. I had a very slight, top-endy distortion to crunch it up a little(and make me feel like I'm back in "control" again-in case the label and my cool art student Coldplay mates laugh at me for ruining my "originality")
Obviously the danger with slap bass is if you go for that super-clean, twangy, “nice” bass sound, it ends up sounding like Level 42."(and I certainly don't want to be thought of as one of the most popular and inspirational British bass players of all time-no sirree.)

Or something like that...:D
Angry-CanuckAngry-Canuck
Fusioneer
Posted 15 years ago
:D:D:D:D:D

All this time I have wasted trying to sound like MK when all I had to do was be a wanker?
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