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Depends what era of U2, but I'd go with a jazz. His current signature bass looks good, but any jazz with blocks would fit. Or a sparkly P bass with a block/bound jazz neck. He's used so many over the years...

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51 minutes ago, Bigwan said:

Depends what era of U2, but I'd go with a jazz. His current signature bass looks good, but any jazz with blocks would fit. Or a sparkly P bass with a block/bound jazz neck. He's used so many over the years...

They do all eras of the band

I dont want to get a signature bass, too expensive but I could repurpose some bits onto an intersting bass

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48 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

I`d go for a Jazz, battered if possible, will get near pretty much everything he`s done and look in character.

 

I'd say Jazz too, covers nearly all eras. He played Laklands for a while too, both Joe Osborn and Darryl Jones models - which are both basically Jazz Basses. He even (briefly) had a signature version of the (fairly affordable) Skyline Darryl Jones, which was somewhat confusing namewise. 

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16 minutes ago, police squad said:

They do all eras of the band

I dont want to get a signature bass, too expensive but I could repurpose some bits onto an intersting bass

Yeah I wouldn't suggest a signature bass for exactly the same reason. Just something similar!

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25 minutes ago, police squad said:

They do all eras of the band

I dont want to get a signature bass, too expensive but I could repurpose some bits onto an intersting bass

 

Do a bitsa version of the one in the photo, easy and cheap to do, it's a PBass so all you need for it to sound decent is a decent PUP and tuners that hold. Most of my bitsas - and FFS I have made a lot of the bloody things - were cheap and pretty decent by comparison with even used prices for equivalent quality instruments 👍 

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Just now, Beedster said:

 

Do a bitsa version of the one in the photo, easy and cheap to do, it's a PBass so all you need for it to sound decent is a decent PUP and tuners that hold. Most of my bitsas - and FFS I have made a lot of the bloody things - were cheap and pretty decent by comparison with even used prices for equivalent quality instruments 👍 

 

Depending on when the audition is I'll do you one at cost, and it really won't be much, certainly less than a new Squier 👍

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Like him or loathe him, he’s the reason that I started playing bass. 
I admit he’s not Michael man ring but it is “in the pocket, in time” bass which is what most people expect to hear 

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