Who was the bassist who played a Jazz Bass with a single (back) PUP and double-bass profile board?

[Beedster]

Think he was English, think he was 1970's.........?

[Misdee]

I can only think of Mo Foster, who had a double bass fingerboard grafted on to his Jazz Bass when he had it made fretless, but I'm pretty sure that bass had both pickups on it. Probably not what you are thinking of.

Edited Tuesday at 22:34 by Misdee

[Beedster]

7 hours ago, Misdee said:

I can only think of Mo Foster, who had a double bass fingerboard grafted on to his Jazz Bass when he had it made fretless, but I'm pretty sure that bass had both pickups on it. Probably not what you are thinking of.

 

That's him, many thanks @Misdee, some follow-up incoming in a few days...... 

[Sparky Mark]

Mo Foster – A History of His Fender Jazz Fretless Bass – FretlessBass.com https://share.google/3o3Q4mBuGEY8oYkqg

[Mickeyboro]

Mo once offered me a fretless lesson. Wish I’d taken him up on it!

[Sparky Mark]

6 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Mo once offered me a fretless lesson. Wish I’d taken him up on it!

[Misdee]

17 hours ago, Beedster said:

Think he was English, think he was 1970's.........?

Regarding the Jazz Bass with a single rear pickup, I think you might be thinking of early-2000's era Dan Glenn. He was/is(?) and L.A-based fretless player who had a beard, looked a bit like Mo Foster and played a fretless Modulus Jazz that had one rear pickup. Could it be you have got the two a bit mixed up/ mixed together?

[Owen]

Fusion!!!!

[Beer of the Bass]

Moe Foster did some articles in the 90s Bassist magazine, as far as I can remember his Jazz bass looked fairly conventional. He did say the ebony fingerboard had come from a double bass, but presumably it had had been cut down to normal Jazz bass proportions. 

 

edit; OK, in the link it looks to have a somewhat extended fingerboard, but not so much that it only had room for one pickup, maybe 2 octaves or so? 

Edited Wednesday at 20:35 by Beer of the Bass

[MNY]

8 hours ago, Misdee said:

Regarding the Jazz Bass with a single rear pickup, I think you might be thinking of early-2000's era Dan Glenn. He was/is(?) and L.A-based fretless player who had a beard, looked a bit like Mo Foster and played a fretless Modulus Jazz that had one rear pickup. Could it be you have got the two a bit mixed up/ mixed together?

Dann is still going strong although he has had a few health issues which he is battling through. I keep in touch with him via FB, he’s a top guy and always willing to share.  I’m not sure he plays much fretless any more. He’ endorses Dingwall basses and plays mainly 6 string these days. 

[Beedster]

Reason for my original enquiry, latest bitsa project to land….

 

[Sparky Mark]

2 hours ago, Beedster said:

Reason for my original enquiry, latest bitsa project to land….

 

I'm guessing that's an old passive DiMarzio pickup? I haven't played one since the 80's, but I imagine it's close to perfect here. 

[Russ]

On 19/11/2025 at 18:16, MNY said:

Dann is still going strong although he has had a few health issues which he is battling through. I keep in touch with him via FB, he’s a top guy and always willing to share.  I’m not sure he plays much fretless any more. He’ endorses Dingwall basses and plays mainly 6 string these days. 

He's got nerve damage in his right hand, but he's developed an interesting plucking technique to compensate using his index finger and his thumb. The guy can still play his unmentionables off. 

[Beedster]

6 hours ago, Sparky Mark said:

I'm guessing that's an old passive DiMarzio pickup? I haven't played one since the 80's, but I imagine it's close to perfect here. 

 

It is, I love them, really good at the bridge. On fretless, and like Mo Foster (at least according to an interview I read), I don't use the neck Jazz PUP, to my ear it just muddies things a little too much, so the body came up on eBay and I jumped. I knew I'd seen a similar bass with extended board and single PUP but I may have imagined the latter, either way I think I'm looking for the same out of this as Mr Foster did from his FL Jazz, I love the simplicity, to add to it I'm probably going to run the PUP straight to the jack socket. Have to say iIt has something of a Wishbass look about it in the flesh, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not   

Edited 7 minutes ago by Beedster

[Richard R]

9 hours ago, Beedster said:

Reason for my original enquiry, latest bitsa project to land….

 

 

Lovely colour. The Wherthers Original of Bass Bodies.

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, Richard R said:

 

Lovely colour. The Wherthers Original of Bass Bodies.

Nice piece of mahogany 👍