Dave Swift,Bassist with Jools Hollandls Rhythm & Blues
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foDeRa victoR wooten ‘83 monaRch claSSic pRice: £6,599 Dave Swift, baSSiSt with JoolS hollanD’S Rhythm & blueS oRcheStRa anD pRouD foDeRa owneR: can’t deny the fact that I fact, better and more suitable for my who runs the business side of Fodera, and large body, the Anthony Jackson wanted to own a Fodera bass needs than any of the earlier kindly took some photos of Anthony Presentation model is a somewhat because of Anthony Jackson. double-cutaway models. I loved the setting up my bass and comparing it imposing instrument, but then I’d always loved his playing and elegant single cutaway, the single with his own, which was a wonderful Anthony and myself are not diminutive ‘Ihis sound, and even though a lot of pickup and the uncluttered top of the personal touch. guys, so the bass feels great to me and I his earlier recordings were made using bass due to no volume or tone controls. ‘The bass is truly stunning and have no problems getting round it. This other basses, when he started playing Many people said to me, “Are you not is an incredible example of design, particular model won’t be for everyone, a Fodera I knew I had to own one. I concerned about ordering a bass with workmanship and artistry. I can see but that’s the beauty of Fodera – there spoke to Joey Lauricella on the phone no controls whatsoever?” I said the a lot of love went into the making of are many more models to choose from and wrote to him and Vinnie back in same thing to all of them: “I play the my bass. With its 36-inch scale length and even they can all be customised.’ 1990. I still have the letter from them double bass – do you see any volume saying how they’d love to make me a or tone controls on the body of that?” I bass and to let them know when I was had told Vinnie that my bass didn’t have ready to order one. For one reason or to be an exact replica of Anthony’s, another, things just didn’t work out, and it differs slightly in the fact that it and it wasn’t until I visited the Fodera doesn’t have titanium hardware, it has workshop many years later in 2004 that an ebony fingerboard, not rosewood, I finally got to meet Vinnie and Joey in and it has regular, not mandolin-size person and order my first Fodera bass. frets. For me, the key points were always This was a moment I’d been waiting a body shape, single pickup, no controls, long time for. and the extender key on the low B ‘Even though the Anthony Jackson string that dropped it down to an A. signature model had gone through ‘I wanted to pick the bass up many changes over the intervening personally from the Fodera workshop in years, and had constantly evolved, Brooklyn, but my touring schedule with I didn’t mind at all. I felt that the Jools made this impossible, so they presentation model I ordered was, in shipped it over to me. Jason DeSalvo, Anthony Jackson with Dave’s bass at Fodera HQ Bass Guitar MaGazine 47.