Leland Sklar's Bass

[TexxasJam]

Leland Sklar, session bassist extraordinaire, is seen here with an unusual neck on his bass. Can anyone here tell me more about this bass guitar?  Could this be one of those "ergonomic" necks that someone invented back in the 80's?  See Leland's "Selected Discography" at the link. I guess a full discography would take up too much band width.  Turns out that's Leland's bass work on Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun :glasses10:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar

 

[RLW]

Novax?

http://www.megatar.com/english/library/People/Novak/novak.html

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

Wow, beardy

 

[line6man]

Looks like a Novax neck to me...

Dingwall's use Novax necks...
http://www.dingwallguitars.com/html/products.html

 

[RLW]

Wow, beardy

Yeah, he's a bit weird looking, but he hasn't been called to play with everyone over the past 30+ years for his looks. Cat can throw down the low notes. His sound always reminded me of a mellow Duck Dunn.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

Wow, beardy

Yeah, he's a bit weird looking, but he hasn't been called to play with everyone over the past 30+ years for his looks. Cat can throw down the low notes. His sound always reminded me of a mellow Duck Dunn.

He needs to dye his bead ginger-brown and get a pipe than.

 

[RLW]

> He needs to dye his bead ginger-brown and get a pipe than.

My hair turned totally grey when I was 18. I'm 53 now, and still have 93% of the hair I had at 19.

Next week it may be 92%,

:icon_smile:

 

[blue313]

Wow, beardy

Yeah, he's a bit weird looking, but he hasn't been called to play with everyone over the past 30+ years for his looks. Cat can throw down the low notes. His sound always reminded me of a mellow Duck Dunn.

+1 He's definitely earned the right to look that way.  The man is really good at what he does.

 

[TexxasJam]

Looks like a Novax neck to me...

Dingwall's use Novax necks...
http://www.dingwallguitars.com/html/products.html

Looks like line6man nailed it.  :icon_thumright: That is a Dingwall bass ole "Father Time" is using alright. Thanks for link. Click on endorsers and you 'll see the man himself holding his five string. Well done!  Thanks everyone.

http://www.dingwallguitars.com/html/endorsers.html

 

[DangerousR6]

Damn that dude got around....Didn't he play on a Phil Collins album too? :icon_scratch:

Ha, nevermind, answered my own question. He played on 4 Phil Collins albums...... :doh:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

He's one of those guys that it's probably easier to name the people he hasn't played with.  I'd bet everyone owns something he's played on whether they know it or not.

At first glance I would've bet some sort of Peavey, but ya'll nailed it already.  He's also been seen playing Yamahas, so that would've been a good starting point too.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

Bringing up the Beardy thread again, those fanned frets means that his bass is multi-scaled ?

 

[NonsenseTele]

Bringing up the Beardy thread again, those fanned frets means that his bass is multi-scaled ?

If I understand your question, yes!
The Big E has a bigger scale than the G