Cliff Burton SB aria 4oth anniversary release

[christhammer666]

Aria are releasing a 40th anniversary Sb bass to honour Cliff

Bet it will steep price wise but id love to give one of these a go

[Cosmo Valdemar]

It's hard to tell from the pic but it looks like a modern SB1000 painted black rather than a period-correct reissue. The near-parallel string spacing was one of the features that made the originals so special.

[LeftyJ]

Agreed!

 

I also associate Cliff Burton more with the SB Black 'n Gold, and not with this more "plain" SB reissue. There have been earlier signature models and tributes, and they were all based on the Black 'n Gold. 

[Bassassin]

There's been a few. A detail-perfect reissue of the passive SB Elite 1 B&G that Cliff's best known for, and as well as that a sort of Elite/SB1000 mashup that had the SB active electronics, with the Elite/SB-R inlays & conventional neck proportions. Got an idea there was a more modest spec budget version as well at some point, a bit like the current SB-One.

 

But yes -  this current thing does look like it's the current SB1000, only painted black. Nice to see that that it has the period-correct bridge & knobs, even if the neck shape's all wrong!