Chris Squire talks about his Rick

Somebody posted this awhile back.
 
I love where Chris isn't 100% sure how some of the switches work on the triple neck and has had everything scotch taped in position. 

Now, if he was talking about his Alembic--that would be something.    It sounds interesting, I'll try to check it out later--if my browser will let me.  I mistakenly allow one of the automatic updates to run and it's been wreaking havoc ever since. 

I chuckled when he admitted that the Rickenbacker Chris Squire signature model doesn't sound anything like his. Hope that didn't get him in trouble with his sponsor. Or maybe they're hoping if they're nice to him he might buy another guitar...it's been 49 years since his last purchase, after all.

"... unless my puritanical side holds, I could be playing a Variax all night.... In the end, a Variax may be all I need for live..." -Steve Howe

bitflipper
I chuckled when he admitted that the Rickenbacker Chris Squire signature model doesn't sound anything like his. Hope that didn't get him in trouble with his sponsor. Or maybe they're hoping if they're nice to him he might buy another guitar...it's been 49 years since his last purchase, after all.

I'm guessing it is because of all the wiring he requires?
 
There was an article about the early days, in Bass Magazine, that he was a pain because he wanted the main pickup split, so he could get a stereo effect off it, or something like that, and even the makers of the guitar would not do it at first.
 
So yeah, of course the named does not sound like the original, which is custom wired! Duuuhhhh!!!!

Hi,
 
Chris is good, but he is not the best bass player I have heard. I might say, and consider that he is the most proficient, and maybe even place him in the class of Stanly Clarke, but Chris is too lazy to sit down and get one of those real basses, and show people that he is just as good if not better.
 
In the end, Chris is just a good rock music bass player, and he is not capable of free-lancing, and doing things that are not up his alley, and this sort of lowers the standard for things, in my estimation. I would rather have a Helmut Hattler, in my band, than a Chris, to help burn up the music. If not Helmut, then I will take Stanley, though he does not use effects as well or as proficiently as Helmut can!

I met Chris once when he was playing with some side band in Los Angeles.  The focus was on a female drummer who had a bunch of gear reps in the audience checking her out.  I don't know who she was now, but her playing was unbelievable and I got goosebumps during her drum solos.  This was in the mid-80's, probably '86 or '87.