I was watching a concert video of King's X and Doug Pinnick was playing a Yamaha bass. When I went to the Yamaha website, it stated that he used AES Custom 4 and 12 string basses. Are these the same Billy Sheehan Attitude basses per se?
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Yamaha AES
- Thread starter Spector_Ray
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If I had to guess, Yamaha has Pinnick pose with Attitude Pluses in advertisements because they simply don't have a consumer model of the custom bass he plays. Better to have an endorsee hold some type of model then not use their "power" in the marketplace at all.
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] has a very informative interview with John Gaudesi of the Yamaha Custom Shop on the creation of Doug's custom 12-string, which is in fact based on the (lefty) AES-style body. I would assume his four-strings are the same.
Edit: found a picture of Doug and a custom AES 4-string during his clinic tour last spring. You can see the 12 on the stand to his left, and Kenny Arnoff to his right.
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[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] has a very informative interview with John Gaudesi of the Yamaha Custom Shop on the creation of Doug's custom 12-string, which is in fact based on the (lefty) AES-style body. I would assume his four-strings are the same.
Edit: found a picture of Doug and a custom AES 4-string during his clinic tour last spring. You can see the 12 on the stand to his left, and Kenny Arnoff to his right.
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In the video I saw, the bass Doug was playing looked like the Attitude Plus 4-string with all black hardware and a P/J pu config. and rosewood fretboard. Problem is that I can't seem to find an Attitude Plus anywhere for sale. The only place I've been able to find them on the web is from a German retailer.
