A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck lacks frets and thus is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the neck of an acoustic...

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commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made. The classic fretless guitar was first pioneered in 1976 by Turkish musician Erkan Oğur. Fretless bass guitars...

fretless bass guitar in 1961 when he converted an inexpensive Japanese fretted bass guitar by removing the frets. The first production fretless bass was...

Metheny and Joni Mitchell. His bass style was influenced by funk and employed the use of fretless bass, lyrical solos, bass chords and innovative use of...

The Ashbory bass is a solid body fretless bass guitar designed by Alun Ashworth-Jones and Nigel Thornbory. It is 18 inches long, almost half the size of...

backing by several jazz-oriented instrumentalists, most prominently fretless bass player Jaco Pastorius, guitarist Larry Carlton, and drummer John Guerin...

April 1962) is an English rock musician, best known for his work on the fretless bass guitar with Roy Harper, The Firm, Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers, John Sykes'...

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available bass guitars). Les Claypool's piccolo bass has 29 frets whereas Manring's Hyperbass is a fretless instrument (however if it were a fretted bass it...

Robert Fripp (electric guitar), Phil Collins (drums), Percy Jones (fretless bass), and Rod Melvin (piano). John Cale plays viola on two tracks. Employing...

60, Korg, PPG, accordion Paul Burgess – drums David Paton – bass (A 3, 4), fretless bass (B 2, 5), backing vocals Chris Rainbow – lead vocals (A 4, B...

a soulful and commercially accessible sound, courtesy of Franklin's fretless bass guitar underpinning an understated song structure. Despite refusing...

combination of echoed piano, the Yamaha DX7's "harp" preset, the distinctive fretless bass of Pino Palladino, as well as a Coral electric sitar and a Ovation Spanish...

Catholic school. He began playing guitar at age 14 and bass guitar at 17. He bought his first fretless bass one year later, playing mostly R&B, funk and reggae...

Vocals: Steve Vai Guitar, Vocals and Keys: Mike Keneally Fretted & Fretless Bass, Vocals: Philip Bynoe Drums: Mike Mangini 2000 Guitar, Vocals: Steve...

Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2014. He is also a more than capable (fretless-) bass player, as can be heard on the "Guitar Zeus" albums, for example. His...

attached. Most guitar necks have metal frets attached (the exception is fretless bass guitars). Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and...

Pastorius (who had also contributed to Mitchell's two previous albums) on fretless bass, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on electric piano, Peter...

vocalist. Kumalo is best known for his fretless bass playing on Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, in particular the bass run on "You Can Call Me Al". Bakithi...

suddenly came out." "Sun Girl", an ambient pop song built on flute, fretless bass, and toy percussion, came from Holter's obsession with capturing the...

Balch is an Australian musician, specialising in fretted and fretless bass guitar, double bass and guimbri. Edwin first came to public attention as a member...

clarinets). The material is particularly well suited for the fingerboards of fretless bass. Ebonol is technically known as "XXX Paper Phenolic" and is a high-pressure...

custom fretless seven-string Thumb NT basses (F#0–B0–E1–A1–D2–G2–C3) for Jeroen Paul Thesseling. A piccolo bass resembles a four-stringed electric bass guitar...

(Goodsall, Jones) – 4:25 John Goodsall – guitars, MIDI guitar Percy Jones – fretless bass, keyboards (6) Frank Katz – drums Additional personnel Danny Wilding...

"This Must Be Heaven" and electric fretless bassist of the R&B band Brainstorm. As a result of his electric fretless bass work throughout the mid-1970s, he...

and left upper bout of an upright bass allowing for easy transference of double bass techniques. Most EUBs are fretless, but a small number are fretted...

album The End of the Innocence. The track features Pino Palladino on fretless bass, Toto members David Paich, who played piano and wrote the string arrangement...

instruments, using its TRB and John Patitucci six-string fretted and fretless basses live while working with Yamaha's Artist Custom Shop on what would become...

production Additional musicians Asgeir Mickelson – drums Lars K. Norberg – fretless bass Mikael Åkerfeldt – guest vocals on track "Unhealer" Jackson, Raymond...