Bass Quote by Anonymous

I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had a million…

— Tracii Guns

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

— Anonymous

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses,…

— Geddy Lee

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar.…

— Robert Trujillo

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

— John Deacon

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body,…

— Robert Trujillo

I keep changing my stuff. I used to play through a Marshall JCM800, and then I also had a Randy Rhoads signature amp. So…

— Lzzy Hale

I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression…

— Synyster Gates

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.

— Ike Turner

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson…

— B. B. King

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a…

— Bill Orcutt

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

— Dee Dee Ramone