Another bass identification thread

[tauzero]

Just watching a TOTP from 1992 and Julia Fordham was on it. Her bassist was playing what I'm pretty sure was a headless 6-string (well, I'm sure about the headless bit). Didn't seem to be any particularly good shots of it though. Any ideas on identification?

 

 

[three]

That bass sort of rings a bell.  It looks like the bass player on the original track was Larry Klein but I'm pretty sure that's not him on the TOTP appearance.  I'll be interested to know if somebody can identify the instrument - from what I can see, I like the look of it

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

2 hours ago, three said:

That bass sort of rings a bell.  It looks like the bass player on the original track was Larry Klein but I'm pretty sure that's not him on the TOTP appearance.  I'll be interested to know if somebody can identify the instrument - from what I can see, I like the look of it

I don't think that's Larry Klein and I'm fairly sure he wouldn't have come over for TOTP, not for Julia anyway.

It's certainly not Pino, so leaves only Alan Thomson or a.n.other?!?

[Pea Turgh]

Bogart?

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

Bogart?

 

That looks like a good candidate.

 

 

Funnily enough, I played one at Bass Direct a couple of days ago (the 5-string, not a 6) and wasn't taken with the neck profile. That's saved me some money and kept me in the 2024 abstinence challenge.

[GBH]

Think it is a LeFay Pangton, there was one reviewed in guitarist magazine around this time, and I think Malcolm Foster used a fretted one when he was in simple minds. 

[LeftyJ]

4 hours ago, GBH said:

Think it is a LeFay Pangton, there was one reviewed in guitarist magazine around this time, and I think Malcolm Foster used a fretted one when he was in simple minds. 

It is a Pangton! 

Not unlike this one: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/320723-le-fay-pangton-6-headless-%C2%B489/ 

[tauzero]

4 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

It is a Pangton! 

Not unlike this one: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/320723-le-fay-pangton-6-headless-%C2%B489/ 

 

Ah yes. I remember wondering about the slightly RIM Marseerish tail end of it (the fish tail) but knew it wasn't a RIM.

[Russ]

Pretty sure it's a Pangton too. 

 

https://www.lefay.de/index.php/EN/bass_models/pangton

 

 

 

Edited February 26, 2024 by Russ
Forgot the link!