You can only have one bass, but FSO don't exist. What do you have?

[Jeff Scott]

G&L
Is always my 1st Chiice
Duke

If there never was a 7ender musical instrument company, would there still have been a G&L, or a Music Man?

 

[commonplayer]

 

[Jeff Scott]

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I've seen him a couple of times (late '90s and mid '00s)!

 

[Pings Bass]

I've seen him a couple of times (late '90s and mid '00s)!

It's sunny in Portland so I've been out on the deck listening to Dirty Dozen all afternoon

 

[MingusBass]

Probably one of these:

 

[Londo Molari]

 

[eldorado2001]

Easy peasy.

 

[ghiggin1079]

An upright of some description

 

[Hevy T]

If I cent. Have a Stingray the a Spector Euro

 

[J-Bass RMR]

You can only have one bass, but FSO don't exist

Wait a minute, something ain't right!
You must return me to my universe.
(in the meantime, where's that agonizer!?)

 

[BassAndCigars]

What's FSO mean by the way?

 

[Yamarolorg]

 

[quilanthegreat]

Lakland 44-01

 

[MrAB4003]

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You beat me to it @Wyrdlow! I would have my 2012 Ric 4003 (the one in my avatar) and my 2022 Satin Autumnglo Ric 4003. I'm interpreting this as "you can have only one bass brand".

 

[MrAB4003]

This is the correct answer. There'd be no Thunderbird, EB-series, Rick 4000-series, Mothman - if Leo entered the alternate timeline...

I think the 4000 series would have existed. Rickenbacker invented the first electric guitar pickup (their original Horseshoe pickup) in 1931. And they would have probably noticed the Tutmarc electric bass, which would have taken the place of the Precision Bass in this alternate history. They would have still applied their pickup invention to a bass instrument and created the Rickenbacker 4000.

 

[George Himmel]

It’d be an FBass BN5, no question. Though arguable that it wouldn’t exist given the clear JB DNA running through it!

 

[MrAB4003]

Maybe the bass guitar would've been more like a guitar (like a six-string bass) akin to an alto/tenor sax rather than the four-string bass we got!

Anthony Jackson, Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Haslip, John Pattitucci, and Les Claypool all would have been playing 6 string basses a lot sooner if that was the case.

 

[Sternodox]

The one I've been playing since 1981. I've never found a bass I like more.

 

[Dabndug]

Without Leo, the most likely scenario is an EUB of some sort. Rickenbacker produced a surprisingly modern EUB in the 1930s utilising a magnetic pickup. Sadly, amp technology was not up to scratch, so it didn't sell well. In an alternative universe, it may have.

 

[MrAB4003]

Oh, OK. Mine would be this Harmony H22:

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As played in this fabulous, very old live performance:

This the best version of "I'm A Man" by The Spencer Davis Group I've ever heard. It features Muff Winwood on the Harmony H22 bass and his little brother Steve playing Hammond Organ and singing. Steve was only 18 years old there and he didn't leave TSDG to form Traffic yet.