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Post subject: what kind of bass does billy sheehan use?
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:00 pm
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it is a p bass style that he calls "the wife"

what brand and type?

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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:04 pm
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hey man he plays a yamaha heres a vid he describes it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwGjwQM5Vg


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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:20 am
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Hi tommygun

Yep, Billy Sheehan owns a P-Bass that he calls "The Wife". There's a picture of it on his website, click on the image for some close ups:-

http://www.billysheehan.com/gear.html


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His " wife" bass is a 1969 Precision bass with a Gibson humbucker in the neck position and the original Precision pickup left intact.

This gives him incredible low end tone.

He went on to endorse Yamaha basses.

Yamaha copied the Wife bass and its pickup configuration but they hid the large humbucker under a pickup cover that is the same plastic as the pickguard, so it is less obtrusive.

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