robertg43 17 Posted January 18 Hi was watch some old videos on YT and I saw that Pino Palladino looks to be playing a fretless Stingray body with a Fender neck ? I have looked several times and theres only 4 string ( I see all machine heads up top not like MM with the 3 + 1 yes I knownif it was a 5 string it would be 4+1 you can see it 0:32 on this clip + others Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wateroftyne 3,534 Posted January 18 Replacement neck from Status, maybe? 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robertg43 17 Posted January 18 8 minutes ago, wateroftyne said: Replacement neck from Status, maybe? Could be right I looked him up and all it said was a 1976 fretless stingray I even thought it might have been a prototype MM stingray but then I found a video on a early stingray it had the usually 3+ 1 headstock but with p type pickups closer to the bridge like where stingray pickups are Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grahambythesea 302 Posted January 18 That’s a hooky headstock a bit like Sandberg. In Tony Bacon’s book it says he wore out fingerboards on the Stingray and had it replaced. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drTStingray 679 Posted January 18 Amazing - I've never seen that before. His Stingray is a 79 which he bought in Mannys (New York). It appears on most of his work in that era - indeed he still uses it with some of the projects he works on. As stated the board has been dealt with numerous times. I wonder whether this was an instance when the board was being fixed and he put a separate neck on - who knows but it's very interesting. He also had at least one additional back up Stingray fretless bass, one of which was fairly recently re-sold. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bassman68 33 Posted January 18 That’s the original GMT carbon replacement neck he got from Status? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GuyR 415 Posted January 20 On 18 January 2021 at 12:25, drTStingray said: Amazing - I've never seen that before. His Stingray is a 79 which he bought in Mannys (New York). It appears on most of his work in that era - indeed he still uses it with some of the projects he works on. As stated the board has been dealt with numerous times. I wonder whether this was an instance when the board was being fixed and he put a separate neck on - who knows but it's very interesting. He also had at least one additional back up Stingray fretless bass, one of which was fairly recently re-sold. That does look like a Status type neck. The back up recently sold, also a '79, was bought in the early 90s for use when his no1 was in for repair. Although it is a great bass, it didn't appear to have been used much. The bass in the video is not the backup. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites