Big name players who stick with one brand?

[xUptheIronsx]

Originally Posted by EdHunter

He's used Lado and Ibanez in video and photo shoots, if that counts. But all the recording and live stuff's been done on a P - save a J in the very, very, very, early days.

yeah, I am counting it just as studio/live since in the videos the bass itself is usually not making the noise...

[JTE]

Jack Bruce... Oh nope, that'd be a Fender Bass VI, a Danelectro, a Gibson EB-3, a Spector, an Aria, and then the Warwick...

OK, Duck Dunn--- well at least until he started using the Lakland. I saw him with CSNY in 2000, and his '59 Precision was in the rack, along with a red Lakland but he played a gold Lakland all night.

Alright, Sting was mentioned. Yeah, he use his old Jazz bass at first with The Police, bought a fretless Precision on the first US tour (the same day the filmed the first video), but he used various Ibanez basses as well as an early Steinberger with The Police. In fact, he was in a Hoshino calendar (featured Ibanez and Tama artists) playing a fretless Musician, even if it did have a Fender strap on it.

So, it looks like it's Jamerson (Fenders except for the double basses) and Herbie Flowers.

Most of the "big name" people aren't much different from us I guess.

John

[blindrabbit]

I think Jack Bruce is a legit response to the thread's question. Sure, he used all sorts of basses early in his career - Fender, Gibson, etc - but since the mid 80s he has played and endorsed Warwick (for that matter, I think he's also stuck with Hartke over that time too). 30 years is a pretty decent amount of time to have stuck with one brand - who out there has beat that?

[MAJOR METAL]

For his solid body basses, Robert DeLeo has been a steady Schecter player.

[Baird6869]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

For his solid body basses, Robert DeLeo has been a steady Schecter player.

But also playing Gibsons now.

Off the top of my head....

Ian Hill of Judas Priest - Spector
Mike Levine of Triumph - Fender Jazz
Justin Chancillor of Tool - DEFINATELY Wal
Eddie Jackson of Queensryche - Spector
Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads - Fender Mustang

[Jeff Scott]

Originally Posted by blindrabbit

30 years is a pretty decent amount of time to have stuck with one brand - who out there has beat that?

Chris Squire. Almost 50 years with his RM1999.

[MAJOR METAL]

Originally Posted by Baird6869

But also playing Gibsons now.

Is he gigging them now?

[George Mann]

Originally Posted by hufe

Sting - Fender, very old Fenders the last 25 years or so

There is nothing like the original single-coil!

[Blu bro]

i cant believe no one has mentioned Claypool... i have seen youtube of him using Jazzs' but you think of his sound and you definitly think of a Carl Thompson.

[MAJOR METAL]

Since 1996, Jason Newsted has been an avid Sadowsky player.

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by Vinny_G

I think Tony Levin uses MM Stingrays essentially.

He's definitely been a 100% MusicMan guy for all his bass guitar needs ever since the late 1970s, but he's been using several non-Stingray models lately:
http://www.papabear.com/tours/pg12/pg12_1.htm

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by JTE

Jack Bruce... Oh nope, that'd be a Fender Bass VI, a Danelectro, a Gibson EB-3, a Spector, an Aria, and then the Warwick...

You missed the Ampeg Dan Armstrong that he played in the mid-1970s

Originally Posted by Baird6869

Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads - Fender Mustang

...and Hofner, and Viellete-Citron.

Originally Posted by alembicbones

I think Stanley Clarke and not just any Alembic, but a short scale Series I is pretty synonymous. He's tried many basses over the years but he seems to always fall back to this bass.

Digression: Does anyone else think it's weird that, despite Stanley's documented adherance to a Series I instrument for all these years, when Alembic introduced their "Stanley Clarke Signature" model it wasn't a Series I?

[The Claude]

Did anyone mention 311's Pnut and Warwick?

[millsbass5]

Originally Posted by SBsoundguy

Hey plays an odd P-bass/Tbird in the Aces High video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONO4mFb-Q_4

I firmly believe he's the only guy that can make playing a T-bird cool as hell by playing it finger style.
I know this sounds weird but, I think a T-bird just look right when a player wears it low and plays it with a pick. Damn, that's somethin' a junior high kid would say......

[El-Bob]

I may very well be wrong here, but... Hasn't Def Leppard's bassist been playing Hamer's since the early 80's?

Edit: Yeah, nevermind. I guess that was just an 80's thing.

[thumbknuckle]

Originally Posted by xUptheIronsx

first of all: THANK YOU for bringing back a flood of awesome memories! I haven't seen that vid for probably 20 years. I am now listening to all of my Maiden back-to-back!

second: that is a weird bass...wonder if he ever used it live...it is definitely NOT the bass he recorded that song with

That's a Lado.

[xUptheIronsx]

Originally Posted by Baird6869

Ian Hill of Judas Priest - Spector

didn't he play p-basses on the first 3 or 4 albums/tours?

[the yeti]

Originally Posted by xUptheIronsx

didn't he play p-basses on the first 3 or 4 albums/tours?

i thought they were jazz?

[jay tay]

I can't remember seeing Darryl Jenifer with anything other than his green Modulus Bassstar J-bass, he has had that bass since at least the mid 80's and still tours with it today!

[cfsporn]

Matt Freeman has been pretty loyal to Fender, but then again, so are most punk bassists.