Bassist's Basses That You Liked?

[Linus27]

As we know, a lot of manufactures make signature basses, some decent and some not so. Which basses from various artists did or do you like? I'll start with the following,

 

Adam Clayton's beaten up sunburst Fender Precision.

 

Sting's natural Fender Precision with maple fretless neck.

 

John Giblin's natural Musicman Stingray.

 

Pino Paladino's Musicman Stingray fretless.

 

Sting's Ibanez Musician.

 

Stuart Zender's Warwick Streamer.

 

Jaco Pastorius sunburst Fender Jazz.

[neepheid]

 

Jack Casady and his Epiphone signature bass.  But you knew I'd say that

[Lozz196]

Both JJ Burnell & Bruce Foxton played black/black/maple Precisions. Nothing out of the ordinary so no need for pics but they made a big impression on me.

[christhammer666]

Lemmy and his ricky 

 

[martthebass]

Mick Karn and his Wal Fretless

John Taylor and his Aria SB1000

Chris Wolstenholme and his Status S2 (I would say that)....

[Mrbigstuff]

I wanted a Jaco signature fretless but preferred the refurbed bass of doom. I was looking at the Fender Artist series and realised I could get an Overwater for not much more. It’s closer to my preferences than the bass of doom, but it’s been inspired by it.

 

 

[SteveXFR]

I've always been a fan of Faith No More and Billy Goulds bass is a big part of their sound so I'd  love to have his signature Zon

 

 

[SteveXFR]

Mostly for the sound of impending apocalypse, I'd like the Jeff Matz signature Dunable

Jeff is a great bassist, I'm a big fan of High On Fire

[Swaff]

Just a few of my personal favourites from inspirations

 

Justin Chancellor's Wal

 

John Entwistle's Buzzard

 

Conner Green's Dingwall

[mr4stringz]

Martin P Casey of The Bad Seeds’ Precision.

[MrCrane]

Rick Danko's Ampeg

 

[Lfalex v1.1]

Can only find one image of Tony Levin's 3 string 'Ray...

[Merton]

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[Rich]

Chris Wolstenholme's double neck Status/Kitara.

 

The Gedster's red Wal.

 

Stu Hamm's Fender Urge 1.

 

 

JPJ's 10-string Manson.

 

 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Rich

[Barking Spiders]

Louis Johnson is why I got into the StingRay but I've only got a SUB Ray 4 meself

 

The Jaydee says Mark King to me. Definitely would like one of those if I could justify it

 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Barking Spiders

[SteveXFR]

17 minutes ago, Rich said:

 

JPJ's 10-string Manson.

 

 

 

He played that 10 string when I saw him with Them Crooked Vultures. I'm fairly sure he had a different weird and unusual bass for every song 

[pst62]

Pete Way's 1976 Bicentennial Thunderbird.

I asked him what became of it, his reply was "I don't know, I used to lose basses all the time." 

[Guest]

Edited September 21, 2021 by Ricky Rioli

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 15, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[NJE]

I am currently loving everything Lee Sklar. His two basses seem like they could cover everything. So shocked Fender haven’t jumped on the band wagon with his precision, and this Dingwall shape in a solid colour is incredible.

 

 

 

[P-Belly Evans]

Bootsy's sausage........ err I mean Space Basses

 

[Roger2611]

Got to be Paul Simonen's Precision seconds from destruction and a step into immortality

[bartelby]

Steve Harris' Blue Sparkle P ( I own a Fender SH blue sparkle):

 

Cliff Burton's Aria Pro II SB B&G (I own a SB B&G):

 

Mike Watt's Gibson EB3:

 

Jason Newsted's Alembic Elan:

 

[gjones]

McCartney's Yamaha back in the 80s. I saw him with one and went straight out and bought one. Then he went back to his Hofner and has stayed with it ever since.

 

[toneknob]

John Giblin's Takamine TB-10 from the Kate Bush "Before The Dawn" show (and ended up buying it)