what bass is Sting playing here contest

that's an Ibanez Musician.

 

Yep.From '79! Don't know about playing, but he's holding it

 

Yup - I saw him playing one of these and bought one myself in the 80s!!

The thing about the knobs - there were several different versions of the Ibanez Musician - something like 924, 824 etc ...?

Some had a 3-band active EQ like mine and others didn't - very high quality basses for the time and significantly better than the basses that Fender was putting out at the time - gave the whole industry a "kick up the arse" !!

 

+1

 

i live in japan so i see these used all the time in the stores...
nice instruments, but HEAVY.
that's pretty much the only reason i never bought one.

 

That's an Ibanez (Musician) MC900.

 

I always liked how it said in gold script on the back of the neck :

'Hand crafted in Japan by the proud people of Ibanez' !!

 

he played another bass for a while then to. it was a model also used by the bass players for bon jovi and skid row. always thought they were gibsons cuz of the postion markers but then i thought they were ibanezes but i'm not sure. anybody know?

 

It is indeed an Ibanez Musician

 

Yup, I had the guitar version of that back in the very early 80's.

 

Yep, I used to have one of these. Totally forgot that I had it - it was my first fretless conversion. I completely ruined it in the process. I think I gave it away....

It never had the greatest sound for some reason, it was a really well-made bass so it should have sounded great....

LS

 

Holy poo, ZOMBIE THREAD!!!

 

I believe that the pic was taken from a performance at the Reading festival on August 24, 1979. It also had lines on the neck instead of the board indicating where the frets would be.

 

Spector?

 

I have the same bass as Sting, except mine is fretted, his was fretless.

'79 Ibanez MC900, it's the 22fret version.

 

Haha, Alembic, that's funny!