Dave Schools on strings

Dave Schools talks about the number of strings you need to do great things in an in-depth interview with JamBase.com.

There's no reason for me to ever get out there and go, "Hey look what I can do." It's more like, "Hey what does this song need?" "What can I do to make this song fully realized as a band sound?" Maybe that comes with maturity. Maybe that comes with more production work and learning how sounds fit together in a soundscape. Maybe I'm just fuckin' lazy. But the great thing is I love what I can do on a four string. You know, throw anything at me, I'll play it on a four string. The six string is a fairly recent innovation in the world of bass playing. John Paul Jones was playing four strings all the way through the end of Zeppelin. He played an eight string, but that's like a twelve string guitar, and that was just for "Achilles Last Stand" and "Nobody's Fault But Mine." Fuckin' heavy, but basically the same four string set up.

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