I'm thinking about an item for my magazine about the 25? 30? most infuential basses. I ask you, cos I don't want to spoil it to Dutch readers in Dutch forums.
I made a random list and maybe you can help me. Which bass should be out and which in? The order is completely random. I don't think the Chapman Stick should be in it, but maybe the first 'lawsuit' Japanese basses? If zo, which one? The graphite Status Buzzard? The Fender Stu Hamm, being the first signature bass, apart from the Les Paul Signature? The Dano Longhorn?
The descriptions are very short for now, I know.
Thanks in advance!!!
1 Fender P
Logical
2 Fender J
Logical + funk + slap
3 Fender Mustang
First Fender short scale, last design by Leo for Fender, Fender competes Gibson.
4 Fender V
Something else and people do string their normal 5 like this
5 Fender VI
Beatles, Cream, hip again, played by guitarists, special sound
6 Gibson EB2/Rivoli
The British Invasion sound
7 Gibson EB0/3
Radar Love, Cream, Gibson's first succesfull bass, and almost a reason we all could have been playing 30"
8 Gibson Thunderbird
Neck-through, designed by a car designer, father of all metal basses
9 Gibson Les Paul Signature. Along with the other LP basses, low impedance and back as the succesful Epiphone JCS.
10 Burns Bison
The British studio bass, low impedance, special electronics.
11 Shergold Marathon 6
Peter Hook with his own style and sound
12 Jaydee
Mark King, a bit of a European Alembic
13 Ampeg see through
Well known bass without a wooden body
14 Alembic .....
First boutique bass
15 Rickenbacker 4001/4003
Neck through, many famous players
16 Kramer
Aluminium neck (aluminum for Americans)
17 Steinberger
Headless, bodyless
18 Aristides 050
Bass made of a special ceramic, which sounds like wood
19 Music Man StingRay
First active bass produces in series
20 Höfner 500/1
Macca
21 Danelectro VI
Long before the Fender VI.
22 Warwick Thumb
Start of the Warwick sound and a nineties icon
23 Ibanez Musician Bass
First affordable boutique bass?
24 Carl Thompson
First six string for Anthony Jackson
25 Paul Tutmarc
First real bass guitar
26 An acoustic bass guitar
27 Dingwall
Fanned frets