Comments on Smiths On Guitar: Andy Rourke's Gear

But Entwhistle is known to have owned at least 3 s...

2012-02-10T09:39:00.107-08:00

But Entwhistle is known to have owned at least 3 slab P basses, maybe more... so it's not just the one we would be comparing it to.

I believe that Entwhistles had three knobs because...

2012-02-10T09:35:40.692-08:00

I believe that Entwhistles had three knobs because they had some sort of preamp in them. This one appears to only have 2.

Thanks for the info, Dayal. I will try to confirm...

2012-02-01T17:49:20.780-08:00

Thanks for the info, Dayal. I will try to confirm that. I haven't seen Andy playing that bass, but I will look for some photos from that tour. Maybe it was a one-time appearance of a borrowed bass?

Great site! However, I saw the Smiths in June 198...

2012-02-01T17:42:44.482-08:00

Great site! However, I saw the Smiths in June 1985 in Oakland, CA USA on the Meat is Murder tour. Andy was playing a blue Ibanez Roadstar II bass. Any pics of that?

Hi Bobby, thanks for the comment. I will probably...

2012-01-25T15:14:22.972-08:00

Hi Bobby, thanks for the comment. I will probably post in the future in more detail about Johnny and Andy's tunings, both live and on record. In general, the debut and Meat Is Murder were F# with few exceptions(the song Meat Is Murder was E). The Queen Is Dead era was a shift to E for Andy and standard tuning for Johnny, for many songs.

That's cool that you are touring with an F# bass as well! I hope to catch one of your shows someday.

Excellent! Great to see a section dedicated to And...

2012-01-25T14:56:42.792-08:00

Excellent! Great to see a section dedicated to Andy's gear at last :) Great to hear about the tunings in detail too, there's not too much about it on the net. I've been carrying both an F# bass and standard tuning bass with me on tour with The Smiths Indeed, but it's not so well known that Andy did so. Great to see the 62 fiesta red P bass mentioned; always wondered about the origins of that one. Good work mate!

Thanks for the comment! I didn't directly spe...

2012-01-23T00:43:52.751-08:00

Thanks for the comment! I didn't directly speculate that the slab bass was Entwhistle's, but I had that same thought as well. I think it's pretty likely, but maybe we will get an answer one of these days.

Great with some bassgear! I always thought Andy ba...

2012-01-22T13:12:16.935-08:00

Great with some bassgear! I always thought Andy basically only had the BB2000 and the 64' P-Bass.

Interesting he had a slab P-Bass… that was John Entwhistles alltime favourite P-Bass model and he had several, some of which were smashed and later became the famous Frankenstein. Maybe he could have got it off the who some way, since Johnny had tons of gear that used to be Petes and Johns. Obviously I don't know, just thinking out loud, interesting to know though…

Love the Blog!
Dewey