Which bass do you associate Adam Clayton with?

[la bam]

Some bands have bassists pretty synonymous with a specific bass, but what would you all say U2s Adam Clayton is most recognised with? I really dont know on this one.

[Bigwan]

Jazz bass

[la bam]

28 minutes ago, Bigwan said:

Jazz bass

 

Which colour / style?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

one with four strings?

[warwickhunt]

Off the top of my head I'd have said P bass but then I remember seeing them live and he was using a J bass... then memory kicked in and my earliest recollection might have been with a Ric.  

 

These days it appears that it's whatever he can get for free!  

Edited May 13, 2023 by warwickhunt

[Old Horse Murphy]

This one, his old P Bass with Jazz neck

 

 

[Waddo Soqable]

Didn't he have a phase of daft shaped looking ones?  Maybe thought it made him more "interesting" 

[warwickhunt]

1 minute ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Didn't he have a phase of daft shaped looking ones?  Maybe thought it made him more "interesting" 

 

He had the Warwick Reverso but he also had that weird V... which possibly lessened his weirdness.      

 

He also used the Jack Cassidy bass and iirc back in the day the Ibanez Musician as per Sting.  

 

[Waddo Soqable]

14 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

 

He had the Warwick Reverso but he also had that weird V... which possibly lessened his weirdness.      

 

He also used the Jack Cassidy bass and iirc back in the day the Ibanez Musician as per Sting.  

 

Strewth, did he do a Devo tribute on his days off? 

[Lozz196]

I think this was during Covid and he was following the science….

[leroydiamond]

I had a bass that used to belong to AC. For me that was no big deal. It was a real players bass, a 1965 jazz. I sold it on several years after purchasing it, to a player who works with a major act and he confirmed, that indeed it was once belonged to AC.

[Hellzero]

A broom with strings.

[Skybone]

Whichever signature model he's plugging this week.

[leroydiamond]

39 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

A broom with strings.

Weight ?😎

[tauzero]

4 hours ago, la bam said:

Some bands have bassists pretty synonymous with a specific bass, but what would you all say U2s Adam Clayton is most recognised with?

 

All of them.

[Waddo Soqable]

3 hours ago, leroydiamond said:

I had a bass that used to belong to AC. For me that was no big deal. It was a real players bass, a 1965 jazz. I sold it on several years after purchasing it, to a player who works with a major act and he confirmed, that indeed it was once belonged to AC.

.... You had Aleister Crowley's bass?.. Was it any good for ( black ) metal? 

[MM Stingray 62]

Ibanez Musician 

 

[Geek99]

I’d go with the battered p bass above 

[Musicman666]

11 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

 

 

 

He also used the Jack Cassidy bass and iirc back in the day the Ibanez Musician as per Sting.  

 

 

if its the one im thinking of it looked just like a cassidy but it was a gibson.

[NancyJohnson]

14 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

one with four strings?

 

He only needs one string.

[Steve Browning]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

He only needs one string.

... but more than one bank account.

 

For me, this one.

 

[Misdee]

 Yep, early 70s P Bass from the Joshua Tree era. Sounded great, looked the part, suited his style. 

[Hellzero]

An F-Bass, he has a few signature models, right? 😈

[Damnthatlazlo]

P bass with the house of pain sticker is the first that comes to mind. 

[barrycreed]

That Warwick sig looks pretty cool