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Billy Sheenan's Bass

Discussion in 'Basses [BG]' started by Ari Schor, Oct 11, 2001.

  1. Oct 11, 2001 #1
    Ari Schor

    Ari Schor

    Mar 3, 2000
    Montreal
    Alright...i have a little question for anyone with the basstreet mag that Fender gives out (the one with Bootsy, Miller, Brian Wilson and all those other cats in the foldable cover).

    There's a pic of Billy Sheenan playing a modded fender...are the last few frets scalloped or is it just me?:confused:
     
  2. Oct 11, 2001 #2
    Peter McFerrin

    Peter McFerrin

    Jul 4, 2000
    Valencia, CA 91354
    First off, the name is SheeHAN. Common mistake.

    Second of all, Billy's 1969 P-Bass, "The Wife," does have scalloped frets from the 15th fret onward, IIRC. His Yamaha Attitude basses have this feature.
     
  3. Oct 11, 2001 #3
    MatW

    MatW

    May 10, 2000
    UK, Swindon
    Yes, the upper frets are scalloped. But they're only scalloped half way across the neck - so that it just covers the 'D' and 'G'.

    I had a Yamaha Attitude Ltd for a while. It played okay, but it looked a too flashy to play it in public with any confidence. I had to sell it in the end. Oh well!
     
  4. Oct 11, 2001 #4
    Phat Ham

    Phat Ham

    Feb 13, 2000
    DC
    I think the story behind Billy Sheehan's p-bass is he stuck a tele neck on it and added a Gibson EBO pickup in the neck position. He didn't know how to wire the pickups together so he just added a separate output jack for the EBO pup. Later he and Yamaha teamed up to make the Yamaha Attitude, which is basically a refined version of Billy's p-bass.