Fender Mustang Bass

[sloop_john_b]

Tina's was a bit modded...

[jps]

The neck on my '95 Mustang is nice and slim, so Joey would hate it. The string spacing at the nut and bridge (*see below) is stock Jazz Bass, only shorter in scale length.

Intonation is fine with the TI Jazz Flats I have on mine; I also have a *Hipshot A style bridge on it as I wanted the string spacing a bit wider than the stock bridge. This required splaying out the string-through-body holes a bit to allow the strings to pass through the holes in the bridge for this; I could have mounted the strings through-bridge but I wanted the extra length through-body gave me for the long scale strings I had on hand.

[jps]

I like the bass and tone Tina has in this :

[sloop_john_b]

Possibly my favorite rock 'n roll performance of all time. Bass is cool too.

[jps]

This one's pretty fun, too.

[Ivan3000]

Stop making sense is definately the best performance.

[jps]

Interesting....in the Life During Wartime video Tina has a different bass at 2:32 for that one shot only. So, obviously, this video was edited from at least two different shows.

This bass:

[Ivan3000]

I like Psycho Killer, my brother, Damian, is getting me into them now. I have only recently heard of them, and I enjoyed this performance. I like the whole "Raw" look where they show the stage crew.

[Ivan3000]

The Shure SM58 grilles were painted matte black per request of David Byrne. (My brother just told me this)

[sloop_john_b]

Ivan - you have good taste man. Keep up the good work.

[Ivan3000]

Thanks...no rap for me. (Except Will Smith, hes pretty good!)

[sloop_john_b]

Thanks...no rap for me. (Except Will Smith, hes pretty good!)

Rap is fine. Just don't start listening to the Bangles.

[Ivan3000]

Thanks...no rap for me. (Except Will Smith, hes pretty good!)

Rap is fine. Just don't start listening to the Bangles.

They're not terrible.

[egosheep]

Talking who?? There's only room for one King of the Mustang bass!!!

[JakeK]

Just don't start listening to the Bangles.

I did, and I was ruined!