\what sort of bass....?

[squire5]

Can anybody identify the bass that this Walker Brother is playing? Looks sorta Fendery but the scratchplate is all wrong.

[Agent 00Soul]

I bet AI could answer that if you input the photo and use the question you asked us as your prompt.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Looks like a Vox Symphonic Bass to me.

 

https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/vox/bass/

 

[simonlittle]

Beat me to it! Definitely a Vox Symphonic

https://equipboard.com/items/vox-symphonic-bass

[squire5]

Well done guys.Question answered. PS What about that 6 string? The headstock seems a bit squiffy.Same stable?

[ezbass]

4 minutes ago, squire5 said:

Well done guys.Question answered. PS What about that 6 string? The headstock seems a bit squiffy.Same stable?

Same knobs too.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The guitar looks like a Vox Super Ace

 

https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/vox/1963_Super_Ace.php

 

[ezbass]

Just now, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

The guitar looks like a Vox Super Ace

 

https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/vox/1963_Super_Ace.php

 

Beat me to it.

[squire5]

Problem solved guys.Thanx.

[Dan Dare]

I found the body and neck of a Symphonic bass in a skip many years ago. Gave it to a repairer pal who fixed it up and sold it. I wonder if I should have kept it. Probably collectable by now. Love the photo - the good old days of miming to the record. No attempt to make it look live. No cables to the instruments and not a mic' in sight.

[Downunderwonder]

9 hours ago, squire5 said:

What about that 6 string? The headstock seems a bit squiffy.

The drummer concurs.

[tauzero]

15 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

The guitar looks like a Vox Super Ace

 

https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/vox/1963_Super_Ace.php

 

 

Headstock looks a bit different - the Vox is like the bastard offspring of a Buzzard and a Sire, the one in the original photo looks like a Fender headstock in a corset. Controls on the scratchplate look the same though.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The headstock shape looks pretty much the same to me if foreshortening due to perspective is taken into consideration.

[Cliff Edge]

20 hours ago, squire5 said:

Can anybody identify the bass that this Walker Brother is playing? Looks sorta Fendery but the scratchplate is all wrong.

Nice cardigan. 

[simonlittle]

Still enjoying the fact that Scott Walker has been reduced to “this Walker Brother” in this thread! 🤣
 

[PaulThePlug]

20 hours ago, ezbass said:

Same knobs too.

What, the Walker Bro's?... 🤣

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

They weren't really brothers so probably not.

[ezbass]

2 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

What, the Walker Bro's?... 🤣

Well, that took way longer than I anticipated.  

[Agent 00Soul]

I took my own advice and prompted two different AI models about the instrument in the photo and they both bombed.  They thought it was a Burns Vista Sonic.  Fail.

[squire5]

22 hours ago, simonlittle said:

Still enjoying the fact that Scott Walker has been reduced to “this Walker Brother” in this thread! 🤣
 

LOL I couldnt tell one Walker Brother from another so I just generalized. PS I dont believe they were brothers,nor Walkers for that matter.Their surnames were Engel,Maur and Leeds (Wiki)

[simonlittle]

20 minutes ago, squire5 said:

LOL I couldnt tell one Walker Brother from another so I just generalized. PS I dont believe they were brothers,nor Walkers for that matter.Their surnames were Engel,Maur and Leeds (Wiki)

No they definitely weren’t really brothers. Scott Walker was such an influential figure in modern music. And by all accounts not too shabby on the bass too. The 30th Century Man documentary is really worth a watch. And of course the Scott 1-4 albums are all just superb. 

I might start referring to Paul McCartney as “that Beatle” on here from now on though, just for shits and giggles! 🤣

[Paul S]

5 minutes ago, simonlittle said:

 Scott Walker was such an influential figure in modern music.

 

Voices like his don't come along too often.  Aural velvet.  I never knew he played bass, off to investgate!