Famous basses picture tread

[matt"bass"]

The first spector NS with curved body. As designed by Steinberger himself.
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[baba]

Klaus Flouride's Jazz bass

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Ok, you win!

 

[baba]

Lesh's Godfather:

 

[kaputsport]

Chris Wolstenholme:

His spray painted (by Matt Bellamy) Pedulla

His Rick, and his fender (one of them)...

Not totally famous yet, but should be...

Really popular in England though..

 

[FalextheFalex]

Lesh's Godfather:

AHHH, the knobs, THE KNOBS!!! I don't think I can comprehend what all those are for.

 

[kaputsport]

Here is the fender pic...

 

[king_biscuit]

Lesh's Godfather:

My God the knobs! Why?

 

[RONQUITO]

Here is Glenn Hughes with one of his P-Basses (yes, underneath that hair, there was a person MMMHMM the envy!)

Then there is the not so famous Pedro Aznar ( worked with Pat Metheny, Seru Giran, among others) with his Tobias.

 

[Juniorkimbrough]

My God the knobs! Why?

Why? acid

 

[de la mocha]

NOEL REDDING

BILLY COX

 

[NYCBass]

Help me, I love this thread and I can't stop ! ! !
Chris Squier and his triple neck

 

[baba]

My God the knobs! Why?

I believe they are mostly for a filter developed and installed by Alembic.

 

[iamthebassman]

I believe they are mostly for a filter developed and installed by Alembic.

I just like the Apollo 8 sticker.

 

[baba]

I just like the Apollo 8 sticker.

Yeah, he obviously wasn't blind to the humor of having that many knobs on a bass.

 

[matrok]

Dennis Dunaway

 

[Baryonyx]

Percy Jones on his fretless Fender P back in the early Brand X days.

My word, was I pleased he went to Wal!

 

[gweimer]

Not wanting to split hairs, but these are more famous bass players than famous basses. Here's one that should have gone up sooner:

 

[iamthebassman]

Agreed, that bass is the reason I played this(and a black one just like it) during most of the 90s:

 

[EpicSoundtracks]

Is that a Tom Petersson bass?

 

[bearfoot]

This one really needs no introduction:

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oops I missed the previous space bass pic but this one is larger anyway