Basses thru the decades?

[essarache87]

Hello,
I have a design project for school im working on and I need to come up with the most popular or iconic basses from the 1940s-thru 1980s and create iphone icons for each. (it could of been any topic I just chose basses) anyway, here is my list.
1940s- generic double bass
1950s- 51 fender p bass
60s - hoffner 500 series (beatlebass)
70s - rickenbacker
80s - jackson crazy shape bass (no specific model)

can anyone offer any help or opinions? bc im not very confident on the ones I chose

 

[msb]

60's and 70's should also be Pbasses .

 

[zeppelinbass95]

Id say 50's is p bass, 60's jazz, 70's rick,

 

[Internet Police]

80s would be a Steinberger

 

[SoVeryTired]

80's Steinberger

 

[Pilgrim]

You could use the Gibson SG-series as an icon of the 60's. It's one of the most recognizable guitar/bass shapes.

 

[msb]

80's should be a Pbass too .

 

[bucephylus]

This is pretty subjective, but my 2c:

50's ought to be the '57 P Bass. nothing against the earlier versions, but the '57 really codified the P and became the bass icon of the 50's.

60's, the Hofner could be used OK - it is somewhat specific to the Beatles; but at least more equally, you'd have to give the nod to the Jazz Bass; if nothing else because it became such a total standard live and particularly in studios. You see them at Woodstock. Joe Osborn used one etc etc.

70's. Really this is much harder because by this point the whole bass guitar scene was mushrooming. Rics certainly had a presence. I would personally choose the Alembic. They were in really regular use by major bands. Stanley Clarke showed up and turned a lot of the bass concepts upside down. Others included Jack Cassidy, John McVie, Tom Fowler etc etc.

80's. Again gets tough. Maybe the original Steinberger. But Pedulla, Tobias, Zon, Smith(Fodera), Modulus, Spector all appear on the scene, among others IIRC. Kind of take your pick and depends a bit on where you live maybe.

Have fun with it!

 

[TolerancEJ]

Wow, it's tough to choose one bass from each decade.

Don't forget about the instruments of today and tomorrow... like Jens Ritter and other luthiers with instruments beyond today's imagination.

Ritter Instruments

 

[mmbongo]

70's Spector (curved, rounded body)
80's Steinberger (no body)

Both designed by Ned Steinberger