Basses
1962 Fender Jazz bass - It’s become something of a trademark after playing this bass in the
Movie of the Woodstock Festival.
Over the years I’ve owned and sold two other Jazz basses but I’ve kept this one. I traded for it with Ian Hunter
in 1962 in exchange for my 1961 Fender Precision plus a small amount of cash - fifteen pounds to be exact.
Ian has suggested over the years that he gives back the money in exchange for a commission
on the shows I’ve played with that bass!

1955 Fender P Bass - Found for me by Billy Gibbons in a pawnshop in Houston

Acoustic fretless - Unusual prototype made by the Acoustic Amp Company

Rikkenbacker Stereo - I remember playing it on ‘I’d Love To Change The World ‘ and ‘ Working On The Road’

3/4 size Double bass

Amps

Vox AC 30 Super twin I bought this amp in 1967 from an old friend Walt Bonney who was the bass player
with The Fentones. He’d inherited the amp from The Shadows. I’ve had the electronics restored recently and
it still sounds great in the studio. I used this amp on the early TYA records.

Watkins amps supplied by my old friend Charlie Watkins of WEM. Charlie is a great guy and a true music fan who's contributed much to the British music scene particularly with his PA systems. Watkins made good amps
but with TYA’s heavy touring schedule in The States we had to forgo our product loyalty
and change to Marshall amps for their ready availability in the USA

Marshall 100 watt bass amps, two and one for a spare, powering four, 4 by 12 cabs.
My roadies and I spent many hours up at Jim Marshall’s factory in Hitchin trying out
different impedance resistors on the amps input stages to get them “Sounding Just right”

Acoustic Amps I used two of these amps and two dual fifteen cabs for a short time.

Strings
La Bella 760 flat wound. Hard on the fingers but a good on the tone! I used to hit the strings so hard
I’d break them regularly - strings that is. My fingers just blistered and bled. These days I can hear myself
a little better and don’t very often break strings or get blisters.

Other Basses you may have seen me playing include...
Warwick Streamer Stage Two Pro. With EMG active pickups  - Hans P. Wilfer the owner of Warwick turned me
onto these basses when we met at an ‘Out In The Green Festival’ in Germany around twelve years ago.

Wal - I bought this active bass from Pete and Wal at Electric Wood. Some of you may recall me playing it
in the mid-eighties on the TYA Marquee Anniversary video

Lakland four string and five string

Sadowsky five string

Nash Jazz Bass

Fender American Classic Jazz Bass