150 Bass Brands

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KSM

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Coen
Coen Custom Guitars and Basses

 

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Thank your setting up the search feature for your website.
I use Firefox so I can use Ctrl-F to search the pending list.


Jack Read is no longer in production but made some very nice basses.
Jack Read

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Jack Read | LinkedIn
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TRADED: Jack Read custom 4-string NAMM bass - Basschat.co.uk (click to enlarge pics...nice pics).
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/jack-read-basses-267893/

 

[Rene]

If there are over 150 brand names.
Why does everybody talk only about Fender?


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[TN WOODMAN]

Take a look at how many on the list are direct copies or heavily influenced by Fender and you have your answer.

 

[PDGood]

I'm sure that's a rhetorical question but in any event...
Some possible answers are:
It's easy to spell.
A lot of people own them (probably because the name is easy to spell).
They have a monumental place in history (I'm sure it has nothing to do with the sound or who played them - again, probably the spelling)
Half of the custom builders are using a Fender-ish design
Because so many people build look alikes, parts for them are readily available which breeds more Fender-ish basses.

 

[PDGood]

P.S.
Hi to TN Woodman. I was just in Smyrna this past weekend. Always glad to see a neighbor on here.

 

[girlonbass]

Take a look at how many on the list are direct copies or heavily influenced by Fender and you have your answer.

It's true. I was considering having a flag for "fender-esque" brands.

 

[girlonbass]

Thank you sir!

I've had a couple of cracks at Jack Read. Thanks for finding some concrete links! I've posted a link to this post in "source list" in pending. Will work on this soon.

thanks,
Terri

Thank your setting up the search feature for your website.
I use Firefox so I can use Ctrl-F to search the pending list.


Jack Read is no longer in production but made some very nice basses.
Jack Read

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Jack Read | LinkedIn
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TRADED: Jack Read custom 4-string NAMM bass - Basschat.co.uk (click to enlarge pics...nice pics).
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/jack-read-basses-267893/

 

[girlonbass]

BTW There are over 500 brands Link Removed. With a couple-a-hundred more pending. Stay tuned!

Terri

If there are over 150 brand names.
Why does everybody talk only about Fender?


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[girlonbass]

And it's easy to spell!

In the early days of electric bass (long before I was born!) you played a double bass or a fender. Fender was like much like a kind of instrument instead of a brand. Like kleenex or xerox.

Terri

I'm sure that's a rhetorical question but in any event...
Some possible answers are:
It's easy to spell.
A lot of people own them (probably because the name is easy to spell).
They have a monumental place in history (I'm sure it has nothing to do with the sound or who played them - again, probably the spelling)
Half of the custom builders are using a Fender-ish design
Because so many people build look alikes, parts for them are readily available which breeds more Fender-ish basses.

 

[cdef]

From the pending list:

3. Antonis Link Removed -- Not a valid website

Antonis is here: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]


Andy Viccars - http://www.andyviccarscustom.co.uk/
ARS - Link Removed
AW - http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/elegee-custom-basses-314035/
Bina - http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/elegee-custom-basses-314035/
Clifton - http://www.cliftonbasses.co.uk/
Coley - [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Elegee - Link Removed - Also: Invalid Link Removed
Elioth - Link Removed
Everson - Link Removed
FAIM - http://www.faim-instrumentos.com.ar/HTMS/bajos01.htm
Francesc Jordan - Link Removed
Frank Usher - Invalid Link Removed
Giffin - http://www.giffinguitars.com/vintage_gallery.htm - http://giffinguitars.hypermart.net/
Harrison - http://www.harrisonguitars.co.uk/
Inner Wood - http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~b-iwbass/
Jacoland - http://www.jacoland.it/
Jean & Jean - Invalid Link Removed
KGB - http://www.kgb-music.co.uk/gallery.htm
Longfellow - [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
Marrott - http://www.marrottcustomguitars.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=41
Mcintyre - Invalid Link Removed
Ocean (by Laguna) - http://www.playlaguna.com/ocean.cfm
Olivo (no current site) - Link Removed
Organic - http://www.organicguitars.co.uk/index.php?id=viewgallery&gid=1
PRguitars - Link Removed
Prometeus - [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
prose-bass - Link Removed
Rim - Link Removed
Siggery - http://www.siggeryguitars.co.uk/gallery.htm
Simnett - http://www.simnettguitars.com/
SL (Simon Lee) - Link Removed
Sovereign - http://www.sovereignguitars.co.uk/svb_standard.html
Staccato - Link Removed
Street - http://www.streetguitars.co.uk/
Vincent (USA) - Link Removed
Vincent'L - Link Removed
Wilkes - Link Removed

 

[PDGood]

And it's easy to spell!

In the early days of electric bass (long before I was born!) you played a double bass or a fender. Fender was like much like a kind of instrument instead of a brand. Like kleenex or xerox.

Terri

Yeah, I remember seeing album liner notes that would list the singer the keyboard player and then a guy on Fender bass even if he was playing another brand. Just like you said, what they really meant was it was an electric bass, not an upright. It was a big deal because some people thought electric instruments were bastardizations of a proper acoustic instrument. It was probably more extreme with six strings where building an arched top guitar was an art form and building a "plank of wood" with strings and electricity required far less talent.

But that battle ended when a new generation grew up that never knew what it was like not to have electric instruments.

At least, that's what my grandpappy told me....

 

[girlonbass]

From the pending list:

Antonis is here: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Andy Viccars - Andy Viccars Custom luthiery - guitar and bass repair.
ARS - Link Removed
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Vincent'L - Link Removed
Wilkes - Link Removed

Thank you sir! Added to Link Removed.

thanks,
Terri

 

[Stumbo]

2011 UK bass show exhibitor list: Exhibitors
Might be worth looking at: http://www.theguitarsherpa.com/bass_guitar_page/default.html

 

[Roy Vogt]

Hotwire Basses
The Hot Wire Bass Universe
Magnus
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Two great German Basses! Germany may be one of the funkiest countries in the EU, what with Warwick, Ritter, Fame, Glockenklang, Schack, Human Base, Marleaux, and others:
http://www.bassprofessor.info/
Always a great source for all things German and Bass...
Okayyyyy......I just saw you listed them. What about Rybski and Ken Benensee?
So, Ken Bebensee is there as well. What about Sandberg? (a German bass)

 

[jamesyeh]

Have anyone heard of Sammy bass?
There is something that mentioned about E-series

 

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The STONEMAN " Nude"

 

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Rothstein: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

 

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A few hundred more links to check out:
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