Don Was

Role

Bassist

Genre

Rock

Group

Was (Not Was) The Detroit Wasmopolitan Mixing Squad Bob Weir and Wolf Bros.

Credits

With Love Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) Complete Studio Albums & Rarities

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Bassist

Genre

Rock

Group

Was (Not Was) The Detroit Wasmopolitan Mixing Squad Bob Weir and Wolf Bros.

Credits

With Love Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) Complete Studio Albums & Rarities

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Kurzweil MicroPiano

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Don Was has two recording studios. One is a 24‑track demo studio in his home in Beverley Hills, the other a larger, professional studio in a house adjacent to his residence. Was wrote the music and arrangements for Forever's A Long, Long Time in his demo studio, which comprises, he said, "a Mackie console, with a Tascam DA88 and a bunch of keyboards and samplers. The synth I use most is the Roland JX8P, but I also have an Oberheim OBX8, a Sequential Prophet 5, a Roland JD800, a MIDI Hammond organ, and an Emu Proteus World module. My master keyboard is a Roland RD1000, which Elton John bought for me. When I worked with him he used it himself as a piano. It had wooden keys and felt great when I tried it out. He noticed I liked it — and the next day one turned up in my garage! I also have some Akai samplers, S3000s, and an older Roland S550 sampler. I have a Kurzweil MicroPiano, which is a little half‑rack box with 30 piano sounds and a couple of string patches. It sounds great; better than any grand piano I can record, unless you're doing serious classical stuff."

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Neumann M49

Condenser Microphones

Used to record Was' bass on Benmont Tench's You Should Be So Lucky, as visible in this Twitter post by Tench.

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