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What bass is this?

Regarding different basses that Ben played, here's the 1985 Live Aid vid. I can't quite make out what bass he is playing in this vid. There is a pretty good view of it at 1:35. Any ideas what it is?


Guild SB-602 Pilot Bass.
Or a specific (early?) incarnation thereof, with a large pickguard, non-reverse split-P front pickup, old diagonal-script Guild logo, and a notched lower headstock profile in correspondence with the diagonal in the script. TBer @Flashback Bass calls it
a "Pickguard" Pilot. A lot of people think they sound better as the have the neck pick-ups reversed from the later versions without the pickguard.

I have the exact same model, chrome bridge and all!

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Maybe it was his!!!!

Also see here:
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"Retrieved from the Benjamin Orr Remembered public Facebook group; created by Michelle Bourg." Pic and sourcing from

Here's another, similarly-specced specimen:
https://reverb.com/item/53735251-guild-usa-sb-602-sb602-pilot-bass-4-string-with-case-1987-natural
 
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Guild SB-602 Pilot Bass.
Or a specific (early?) incarnation thereof, with a large pickguard, non-reverse split-P front pickup, old diagonal-script Guild logo, and a notched lower headstock profile in correspondence with the diagonal in the script. TBer @Flashback Bass calls it


Also see here:
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"Retrieved from the Benjamin Orr Remembered public Facebook group; created by Michelle Bourg." Pic and sourcing from

Here's another, similarly-specced specimen:
https://reverb.com/item/53735251-guild-usa-sb-602-sb602-pilot-bass-4-string-with-case-1987-natural
Hey thanks @HaphAsSard! That is awesome! :thumbsup: And "thank you" to @Flashback Bass as well!
 
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