What bass does Tina Weymouth use?

[foal30]

Steinberger for sure. Can't remember what year I viewed the mighty TH
Possibly 1984

 

[jd56hawk]

Google image search shows pics of her playing all the above-mentioned and also a a Fender Arrow Swinger, an EB-O and what I believe is a Les Paul Triumph bass and more.
Fender has models named after what, 38 different bassists? Why not have a Tina Weymouth model?

 

[lowendblues]

I've seen her with a Steinberger.

 

[jim nolte]

Her feature profile in the 3/97 issue of Bass Player does not mention a Precision. Great, great interview btw (in an issue that also includes a mindblowing interview with Scott Thunes).

Was that when Thunes was working as a door man somewhere, got out of the music business? I remember that article. Tina used a P bass early on, but thought the neck was little big for her hands.

 

[Marko 1]

 

[Marko 1]

She looks real young here.

 

[31HZ]

She looks real young here.

I believe that's Paz Lenchantin.

 

[31HZ]

Was that when Thunes was working as a door man somewhere, got out of the music business? I remember that article.

Yes. The interview was excerpted from Thomas Wictor's book In Cold Sweat. Thunes has a very interesting perspective.

 

[jim nolte]

I believe that's Paz Lenchantin.

I don't remember Tina with long hair, Paz, from Perfect Circle and Zwan is, IMHO, a stone cold fox, my #1 looking female bassist as shallow as that sounds A good solid player also.

 

[Dluxe]

Ah, Talking Heads, the only band I can think of who've extensively used the MusicMan StingRay ............ (guitar ) .

[/THREADHIJACK]

She uses a Sting Ray bass on the song Wild Wild Life.

 

[Btbp]

I've always wanted to know what she used on Puzzlin' Evidence, could be a MM but could be a short scale like a Mustang

 

[drumsnbass]

Watching 'Stop making Sense' tonite for the first time in al least a decade. This was my college music and it still sounds great!

I'm actually surprised at how little camera time Tina gets given how cute she looked in this film. Backup singers got way more...

 

[Edward Peterson]

Does anyone know what bass Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads) uses?

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[LadyLoveStingRay5]

I' ve seen Tina Weimouth with MANY different basses. With Talking Heads and with the glorious Tom Tom Club. But she seemed to prefer, at least in the early days, Steinberger's L, old graphite neck and body, that weighted a tonelade, a green gray Jazz Bass and Music Man.
In an old interview in BP mag, talking about early graphite Steinberger L, she pointed that a buss could go over them and they would still be tuned. Don,t remmember if she mentioned the weight factor. I bought one and rapidly knew what a really heavy weight bass meant on your shoulder.
Today you can see Tina in lots of videos ussing an array of different basses, from old violin types to futuristic models, but she seems to be very loyal to her old Jazz Bass. ALWAYS always always she gets the right sound for the tune.
I wonder if she ever used a Precision. ¿Does anyone know?

Yes she has a Pbass that was originally sunburst but she painted it grey. She used that Pbass for their R&R Hall Of Fame Induction performance.

 

[Garret Graves]

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That question was asked 12 years ago, FYI

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

Nice read . Lots of info and pics of Tina’s gear and approach to playing .

"You Just Do It": Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth on the Secret of Great Basslines | Bacon's Archive

 

[Chuck King]

Stop Making Sense was assembled from footage from four shows (at the same theater over a short period of time), and at one point in "Life During Wartime" Tina, who had been playing the Hofner Club, is suddenly playing the Veillette Citron. See around 2:24:



I can't help but think that those must be two very, very different sounding and playing basses, but she went back and forth between them for shows days apart. If nothing else, it suggests to me that the Talking Head-ness of what she did was not based on subtleties of gear choice.

 

[Orlan]

Has anyone modded a mustang bass with a musicmaster pickup in the neck posotion like Tina's?

 

[skwee]

I remember seeing this shot a million years ago

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Does anyone know what bass Tina Weymouth (of Talking Heads) uses?

I've seen her play a big hollow body before. Like a gretsch or something.