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Fender Mustang Bass players
- Thread starter Marc PG
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Bill Wyman used one for a while but never got on with it that well. Saw Sheryl Crow using one in a recent video. There are probably more popular modern bassists using them now than at any time in history, though.
this.
I’m not young enough to’ve bothered to learn the band names, but I’ve seen a lot of pretty cool new bands on YT in the past seven years in both produced videos and live recording videos with their bassists rocking Mustangs and Mustang-like customs.
Chris Morrissey.
a New York-based doubler (also plays upright) whom plays with Jim Campilongo and Mark Giuliana, amongst many others.
a New York-based doubler (also plays upright) whom plays with Jim Campilongo and Mark Giuliana, amongst many others.
Up here in Canada there is a band called Sloan, bass player is Chris Murphy. Not sure how well known they are in the rest of the world. Ive only seen him play a red competition mustang
I know Sloan! Then again, I’m from Buffalo, so I’m Canadian-adjacent.
Alan Lancaster, Status Quo.
I’ve seen pictures of of Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) holding one, but I don’t know how much he actually used one. (He’s mostly a P Bass or Rickenbacker kinda guy.)
I’ve seen pictures of of Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) holding one, but I don’t know how much he actually used one. (He’s mostly a P Bass or Rickenbacker kinda guy.)
I could a know few but I'm just going to name a one I feel you may have never heard of
Lukas the bassist of King Gizzard is more of a guy who just plays what he's told to. The main crew Stu and Joey write the bass parts. Not at all saying he's a bad player, he is a sick player and it's amazing he puts up and plays with what they write for him. This is only their simpler album (However this bass is microtonal though so that was probably a trip for him!) They made an album of crazy time signatures and constant switching. Bass can be heard in all of their albums, some cool solos and shines a lot in their Sketches of Brunswick East album, but all of them are great.
(Yes he played metal with this bass on their thrash album lol!)
Lukas the bassist of King Gizzard is more of a guy who just plays what he's told to. The main crew Stu and Joey write the bass parts. Not at all saying he's a bad player, he is a sick player and it's amazing he puts up and plays with what they write for him. This is only their simpler album (However this bass is microtonal though so that was probably a trip for him!) They made an album of crazy time signatures and constant switching. Bass can be heard in all of their albums, some cool solos and shines a lot in their Sketches of Brunswick East album, but all of them are great.
(Yes he played metal with this bass on their thrash album lol!)
My “one that got away” was a 70s Mustang that Graham Maby was selling on ebay from his personal collection.
great band! Love their bass parts, didn’t realise he didn’t write them. Still a great player though.
I believe the gentleman from the Average White Band played one. Very funky parts, and played with a pick no less! But it definitely has that thinner, brighter thing ‘Stangs are known for.
I think the Mustang and SG bass are the two bad-ass short scale basses of all time - unbelievably powerful, at least with my live band experiences.
