my RIDICULOUS bass collection - 2023 Update

You need to interview Alain Caron. The master Fretless F bass

Yeah, I'd watch a vid of Ian's basses

keep the Yamaha!!!!!!

yea. access to the three hundredth fret! 😂🤣😆😁

*Flea on give it away*

EPIC

Get rid of 'em all...except the Fender's. The rest look like they were made in High School wood shop.

Live in Carlisle, and love Overwater! we used to be Facebook pals, and man, I adore your journey, Scott!

I was looking for a fretless bass recently and found a 2019 MIM Fender Jazz for sale for 400 bucks. The guy bought it during covid but never played it. So i decided it wasnt a bad price. It came with a set of Seymour Duncan quarter pound pickups, badass bridge, hipshot tuner, and a hard case. He even gave me the Rumble 25, well worth the 2 hour drive.

Those wondering the shop where he bought the bass from did all the work and the old parts were in the case.

Trying to conjugate the verb “to treat” as “tret” in the introduction video to the “P-Bass of Doom” years ago was the dumbest thing associated with it … until you swapped its neck with the Moollon. Yeesh.

Surprised there's not a single Stingray!

Would be great to see a Daion MK2

That b.n.f. is awsom

Is there any basses i can buy similiiar to the overwater expression 5 string hollow body

Peter Hook was the reason i bought a Yamaha BB myself:)

Is there any reason you don’t use fodera anymore?

Youguys need a gibson eb-3

It'a a nice collection, especially the Wal MK1 and Ovation Magnum IV but I'm surprised there is no Alembic, Warwick, Gibson or Stingray in the collection! For me variety is the key as it makes you play differently, I never have more than 1 of the same model/type of bass. I'm guessing Scott is mostly a lover of Fender Precision & Jazz basses and variations of them which is fair enough, they are classics (I have both too, but one of each is enough!)

That BNF 5 sounds amazing

LOL 🤣🤣🤣

Why the glove...?🤔

The Wal is my dream bass. I don’t have any where near enough money for one, but maybe one day.

That F-Bass BNF 5 sounds killer....

This was so amusing! I really want to win the Extender bass. And it comes with the table, right?

I've been "ordered" to sell most of my basses, by my wife, prior to our move back to the EU (Spain). I have 2 Yin Yang DeluxeFoderas, 2 Walls, Gibson Thunderbird II, Prototype Fender Jazz owned by Rudy Sarzo, '62 stacked knob Fender Jazz, Fender owned by Warren Waters, Fender owned by Stu Hamm, Fender owned by Pablo Cruise bass player, 1984 Warwick Streamer Stage I NT Masterbuilt Spector NS that caused a "copyright" lawsuit between Spector and Warwick and the list continues.....

No Zon, Modulus, Status, Sadowsky, Spector or Music Man? smh

GWB35 has a custom wound humbucker

Andy Rourke has a BB bass on the Hatful of Hollow album. Peter Hook plays BB bass as well.

Flamed spruce is not a thing. My understanding is that the gymnosperm tree species can only exhibit "bear claw" figure in their timber, and not flame, quilt, or birdseye commonly seen in angiosperm specimens.

BTW, always loved your Overwater sig. Have never played one but it sounds and looks cool as and the string spacing would suit me. Oh, and FWIW you once setup a Jaydee I bought from Overwater and it was one of the best setups I’ve ever had, suited me perfectly! 😊

Nathan East use to play a BB 3000

Billy Sheehan used to have a pink coloured
Yamaha BB 3000 bass

I’m sure you could sell that Wal for a few bucks.

1974 Jazz Bass sounds thin and flat. Not nearly as good as any other bass of this collection.

When you get over 70 basses in your collection...worry. Also, Music Man Bongos can get ANY tone in this entire video and more. Same with some of the MM Stingrays and sterlings.

Top basses, Wal and that Fretless F Bass.

Love this video, love almost all the SBL videos. One request, how can you show some love to us lefty's on the giveaways?!?!

So who has the cajones to learn Welcome to Art by Nick Campbell Destroys? 😂😂😂

I just sold my 1996 Kensmith BTG 5 Custom last year! It was an amazing bass. I was the second owner of it. I do miss it!

Hello nerds of Thunder.

I still have 2 basses. Fender shorty acoustic, 1990's and I have a Warwick Jazz bass from 2014.
I have a third bass actually, it's been retired.
This shop called Woodcraft, they make shorty P-basses and short telecaster clones, called Ampmaster. They actually look nice, the upgraded hardware and pickups, they have the Fender tone people crave.

I just found out the shop existed the other day, made in USA. Not a lot of makers of short Fender copies. Anyone have any experience or knowledge about Woodcraft ?.
I figure my options are quite limited anyways since I can't afford like a Mako or something for 5 grand, but that looks perfect.
You guys are so blessed to be rich Bassists, with 72 wonderful instruments...each. I like that Ian Allison Bass, that short scale...ya man I need to borrow it please.

I am not a short person, I am focused and compact. I just see short scale as a lighter and more compact bass, you can really get used to the tonal characteristics and string tension they have.
34 inch necks have much tighter string, plus I run extra heavy strings which makes them a bit tighter. For recording I need a shorty electric I think, passive switch with a classic midrange tone. Warwick is a good slapper but it does not have a vintage tone at all, it's a perfect metal Bass or for Funk it works for thumping. It just sounds dark and nasty with the electronics I put in, NTMB circuit. I might have taken from the versatility of the original Bass, not sure.

I might just go to 30 inch scale all the time, 31 or so unless it's a song that's all slapping then I just grab the Warwick. Larry Graham slapped one, it must be a good slapper. Prince had one too,
I like Larry better with a Moon Bass, though I think it's a better tone for him. I put the same electronics from the Moon into the Warwick, results not as expected. The Warwick sounds a little more like a Music Man when slapped, more so than a Jazz Bass. I might even have just preferred a Jazz bass but again, it's perfect for any metal enthusiast who might want it.

I should call it Satan since it's the most evil sounding bass I have ever heard, I like to use the mids as well, the treble is all the way up. I should trade it to someone who can appreciate it fully, cause that wasn't what I was aiming for. Looking for something where I want to roll the tone off some, the treble and mids. Most Fenders are like this, stock. For someone else, playing with a pick or playing fast metal, my bass would be a totally perfect setup for that cause it's very forgiving. There's zero fret noise, string noise, no hum and It's very percussive like that. Very hard to be percussive on a Bass with a bunch of noise, on the strings or frets and a lot of them have this.

Wanna be minimalist 🤣🤣

Scott, just curious have you ever played or owned a Pedulla? They made several models but my favorite is the Thunderbolt.

Loved the sound of the Overwater pbass. Similar to my active emg pbass.

The Yamaha BB 3000 Tony Kanal and Richard Page of Mr. Mister, Nathan East for a while as well.

Kubicki, Kenny G bassist Vail Johnson!!!

love the OverWater Sound