He changed during Baxter's. Pretty sure "rejoyce" is the J bass.
Thanks!
While I trust your "expert witness" insights, I was just recounting what I recall since that particular album is so important to me... in fact you were the guy who first told me it was the J-bass, when I asked way back when if you knew if Jack recalled what he used (and of course both of you may have remembered "new" stuff since then)
There's an interview where he mentions that recollection of acquiring the SF during the
Baxter's sessions and using it in studio, but couldn't actually recall if it made it onto the record, which to me corroborated your original input.
Ah, here we go:
https://www.flyguitars.com/interviews/jackCasadyGuildBass.php
"One of the people in the studio I think, (told me about) that Guild bass and I bought that. I started playing around with it and brought it to the session, but I don't think I recorded with it. That third album was still a somewhat modified
Fender Jazz bass."
In this one
https://bassmagazine.com/artists/jack-casady-a-career-retrospective-appreciation he says he used the J-bass to record the first 3 albums, but he might also just be trying to keep his answer short, as it does confirm he acquired his first SF in '67:
"The jazz influence can be heard in Jack’s early work with the Airplane, where he often played long, fluid runs that “twined all the way up” rather than sticking to root-5 lines or basic blues patterns. “I was always chasing the jazz bass players. That’s why I think, later on, I drifted into the hollowbody bass, because I liked that tone.” The instrument that he “drifted into” was a short-scale Guild Starfire Bass II, which he began to use in late 1967. “I liked to use a more melodic approach, and that more open and acoustic-like sound with the Guild gave me the opportunity to develop in that direction.”
To me, "Spare Chaynge" and "Won't You Try" always sounded like a hollow body although I didn't realize it at the time, just knew it was a very special sound. Was my first JA album at 13.
Also still have the sheet music book that was published for it, and perhaps ironically the clearest pic of him playing features the J bass, but that never really registered until just now.