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| John Deacon | |
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| Deacon 1979-ben | |
| Életrajzi adatok | |
| Születési név | John Richard Deacon |
| Pályafutás | |
| Műfajok | Progresszív rock, hard rock, heavy metal, glam rock, funk rock |
| Aktív évek | 1971 – 1997 |
| Együttes | Queen |
| Hangszer | basszusgitár, elektromos gitár, akusztikus gitár, elektromos zongora, szintetizátor |
| Kiadók | EMI, Parlophone (Európa) Elektra, Capitol, Hollywood |
| Sablon • Wikidata • Segítség | |
I find it difficult to write songs. I usually start from the musical side. It's not a very good way of working. It makes it difficult because I then have a melody and have to put words to it afterwards. But it just seems to be the way I go about it. I should sit down and write some words out first and then try to put music on it. It should be simpler that way. But I just tend to have more musical ideas that lyrical ideas. I also find it difficult getting my ideas across to the band when we attempt to play it.
Oh, there's lots of good ones. It changes over the years. In the early days I used to like Chris Squire from Yes. Now, I'm not really onto any one player. I tend to like the bass on certain records and certain songs.
It tends to vary. On certain tracks bass is featured more. Sometimes tracks are more guitar-oriented. I tend to play relatively simple. That's just the way I enjoy playing. Sometimes I play with my fingers and sometimes I play with a pick, depending on the style of the song. I use Fender bass mainly, which I've used for years. I have one that I use most of the time; a Fender Precision (Laughs). Just last year I met some of the people from the Fender factory in Los Angeles. They actually gave me one. When you're struggling and can't afford one...but when you're successful, they give you one. It's quite nice; a Fender Precision Special. The old ones just have volume and tone. Now they have three knobs: volume, bass and treble. That's quite nice. I used that guitar on "Under Pressure". I have a Music Man as well, which I use on bass for certain numbers, like "Another One Bites the Dust". You can get quite a tight bass end. I tend use Telecaster guitars. It's the most cleanly cut for the rhythm involved in the songs
Can you detail the use of keyboard bass?
JD: It's just become a big thing over the last few years. Some records out now are all keyboards. Songs like "Don't You Want Me Baby?" don't have a guitar on them. That's mainly because keyboards have gotten better over the years. It's now very easy to get a nice full bass sound out of them. My role actually shrank with the use of keyboards. It now gives the group direct expression for a nonbassist to play their own bass line. Some of the track on the album -- like "Body Language" -- were Freddie on keyboard bass. Brian played bass on "Dancer". So I'm redundant in a sense.
John, I suppose you're going to tell us you also use Vox?
JD: No. (Laughs). I use a Duplex Limiter as well as Pan amps and Sunn speakers CNN. http://www.deaky.net/rain/musician82-e.html