bcaldwell

The Lakland 55-AJ basses, assuming they're the USA versions and not the Skyline, Asian-made, are not at all inexpensive either. It was pretty obvious that these shows spared little or no expense. There was a lot of very new looking equipment on that stage.

I was at two of the Kate Bush shows. John Giblin had two new Lakland 55-AJ basses, one fretted with maple fingerboard and the other fretless (with ebony or rosewood fingerboard). The second night I saw him there might have been a third 55-AJ in his rack, I couldn't quite see. He had a five string Ampeg Baby Bass mounted in a stand so that he could just walk up to it and play without holding it up and he also used a Takamine TB10, wearing it with a guitar strap instead of using its endpin to stand upright. His effects rack had a number of Avalon preamps.