Basses owned by Randy Coven (Aria Pro II, Pavel, etc.)

[Alberto Rigoni]

Dear colleagues,

I'm a huge fan of Randy Coven (Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, ARK, etc.), he really inspired me. Unfortunately he died in 2014.. So, I'm looking to get one or two of the many basses he had. I searched all around the world but found almost nothing. I read he had 2 Zimmerly Silly bass, Aria Pro II signature, Barrington, Pavel Tzach, and probably others.

If you know someone that owns one of them please let me know.

thanks a lot, I would really appreciate some help!

Alberto

 

 

[Hellzero]

Hi Alberto,

 

Did you check this?

 

https://equipboard.com/pros/randy-coven

 

On the cover of Funk me Tender (must have listened to this album hundreds of times), this looks like a Jackson with a Kahler tremolo, but I might be wrong.

Edited April 18, 2023 by Hellzero
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[TheGreek]

I do like this. What is it?

 

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by TheGreek

[Alberto Rigoni]

21 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Hi Alberto,

 

Did you check this?

 

https://equipboard.com/pros/randy-coven

 

On the cover of Funk me Tender (must have listened to this album hundreds of times), this looks like a Jackson with a Kahler tremolo, but I might be wrong.

 

Yes I did, I've been told it was a custom Barrington... I found one similar, but it was not owned by him.... 

[Alberto Rigoni]

Just now, TheGreek said:

I do like this. What is it?

 

 

it's a pavel tzach custom

[Hellzero]

By the way, your album Grains of Sand with Michael Manring is really good. 😉

[Bassassin]

39 minutes ago, Alberto Rigoni said:

Dear colleagues,

 

This looks to be an 80s Aria Integra with 3x DiMarzio Model Js and a Kahler trem. I'm leaning towards it being a highly modded SB-Integra (predecessor of the later IGBs), like this:

 

https://reverb.com/item/319578-aria-pro-ii-sb-integra-bass-1986-black

[Alberto Rigoni]

17 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

By the way, your album Grains of Sand with Michael Manring is really good. 😉

thanks a lot! did you check for the love of bass with nathan east, lee sklaar etc?

[Hellzero]

12 minutes ago, Alberto Rigoni said:

thanks a lot! did you check for the love of bass with nathan east, lee sklaar etc?

The problem is that I only buy CD's (I hate downloading, sorry) and it's out of stock...

[Belka]

Randy had this bass made for him by Fodera. No idea where it might be now.

[Alberto Rigoni]

3 minutes ago, Belka said:

Randy had this bass made for him by Fodera. No idea where it might be now.

Interesting, didn’t know… 

[Alberto Rigoni]

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

The problem is that I only buy CD's (I hate downloading, sorry) and it's out of stock...

I have some but I don’t ship in uk… 

[Hellzero]

I'm in Belgium. 😉

[visog]

He also played a Warwick... at least in this video which is a joy.

 

 

[Alberto Rigoni]

11 hours ago, visog said:

He also played a Warwick... at least in this video which is a joy.

 

 

 Yes he had many! 

[Daniel A.]

I used to take lessons from Randy back in the mid-80’s on Ling Island, NY. He had the Explorer-style Fodera pictured above , but mostly played a 60’s purple-finished  Fender Jazz bass. He was an amazing player. I think all the other basses shown and mentioned came a bit later.

 

[Russ]

Just another couple of names for the list - I seem to recall he was playing Canadian Lado basses for a while. I can't find a picture of him with it, but I'm pretty sure it was one of these: 

 

He also played an Ibanez Sabre-style bass that was a kinda flip blue/purple colour.

EDIT: Joe Lado is now 80 years old and is still building guitars. They also have a FB page: https://www.facebook.com/ladoguitars

Edited yesterday at 01:53 by Russ