Famous musicians who play Stingrays?

[OneMoreRobot]

The bass player for God is an Astronaut uses one. Not exactly a famous band, but a good one.

Excellent band... Good bassist too!

 

[OneMoreRobot]

Edit: I was wrong.

 

[bassist4dalord]

Tim Foreman of Switchfoot

 

[eyeballkid]

Joe Lally is the reason I first bought a Stingray.

 

[stingray2112]

I read that Geddy Lee tried one on the Snakes and Arrows tour but couldn't get the sound out of it he wanted. I read the interview on talkbass with his bass tech.

 

[scHism]

Mike White of Spindoctors

 

[troy mcclure]

Roger from Less Than Jake

 

[Rthm]

Nikolai Fraiture (the strokes) can be seen playing on in the juicebox music vid.

 

[Down_Low]

The bassist from Sublime (his name escapes me at the moment).

And if you're from Aus, the singer from Eskimo Joe.

 

[LowNotes1]

The guy from Linkin Park I think.

 

[IvanHardy]

Louis Johnson!

FTW!!!!

 

[mcm]

carl radle

 

[mikeswals]

One you'd least expect.....

David Gilmour.

I think he owns two, one of them being a fretless. I remember a Jack Bruce interview, he said Dave tried getting him (Jack) to try it out.

 

[bovinehost]

Randy Jackson played a pink polka dot Stingray in Journey.

He's got some other EBMM instruments, too, most notably an orange Reflex.

 

[kjpollo]

Not exactly rip-it-up famous but
John Rees from Men At Work
and Michael Steele from the Bangles used a Sabre.
And the guy from EMF in the early 90's.

yeah, now that I look at it, this is not a very inspiring list!

 

[Bread Knife]

How famous are we talking here? I don't know any of their names, but the bass players from these bands are Stingray players:

Billy Talent
Maps & Atlases (Groovy, I think this guy plays with flats!)
Chevelle (the original guy, at least)
Reel Big Fish
Anti-Flag (he's moved on to P basses)
At the Drive-In/Sparta (is this the same guy?)
Circa Survive
The Cure
Dredg

Alright I'm bored but that's a start for things I listen to on occasion. I'm going to guess everyone posting in this thread plays a Ray, too, but I'm surely not famous! Can't speak for the rest.

 

[kjpollo]

As far as Chevelle goes-when I saw them back in 09, their bass player played a Gibson T-bird.

Oops- the Chevelle reference just reminded me of another guy:
Eric Bass form Shinedown used to play them (I saw them on the same bill w/Chevelle) But now he has a sig model from Dean

 

[Plays_For_Dog]

^Reel Big Fish- Matt Wong ^ Excellent bass player. I hate he left the band. The replacement is a great player, but Matt had that feel that made Reel Big Fish. I hope he starts another project in a couple years after his daughter is in school.

Also, Chevelle's bassist (singers cousin) that replaced the old bassist (singer's brother) plays a Rickenbacker. Just saw them last summer. AWESOME live band.

I believe he also used Warwick at one point too

On the Blue album, he played a Fender Jazz.

 

[eff-clef]

Yea Flea had a few. Back in his Ampeg days. Pino Palladino rocks a fretless here and there. Also, the dude from Linkin Park has about a million 4's and 5's, Tim Commerford from Rage used one a long time ago, Johnny Christ of Avenge Sevenfold, Mickey Madden of Maroon5 used a 5er (not sure if he still does. He's been switching from those, Sadowski's and now 62 P's). There are so many! John Myung uses a Bongo. Not a Stingray, but still MM.

Not to sidetrack, but Flea has always played GK heads with Mesa bottoms then Gk bottoms. The guy from The Cars plays a SR.

 

[mikeswals]

As far as Chevelle goes-when I saw them back in 09, their bass player played a Gibson T-bird.

Different player. Their original bassist Joe, played StingRays.