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The best discounts I've seen this Cyber Monday are almost all on bass guitars – with up to 44% off some of our best-reviewed models
Bass discounts eclipse the offers on guitars this year – with almighty savings to be had on Fender, Spector, Guild, Squier, Sterling by Music Man and many more, it's a good time to go bass shopping
“When they shot smoke, the crowd went wild!”: Dusty Hill’s Hot Rod car bass, custom built by Wayne Charvel for ZZ Top’s Eliminator tour, hides a few secrets beneath the hood – now it’s up for auction
Check out the automobile-inspired build that powered some of the band’s most iconic appearances in the early-’80s
Ernie Ball Music Man just dropped the Retro ‘70s StingRay bass range – and Brazilian thump master Fernando Rosa has demoed them in impeccable style
Ernie Ball's new throwback StingRay combines ‘70s-inspired features with modern playability
“Punk rock should be accessible – I think it’s very cool to be somebody’s potential first bass”: Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz partners with Sterling by Music Man for its first full-scale passive bass
Spotlighting his punk roots, the Pete Wentz Artist Series StingRay is visually inspired by watches and skateboards
"We were still gluing the fur on the tuning keys when the FedEx driver showed up to pick up the guitars": The iconic fur-covered spinning bass from ZZ Top's Legs video is going up for auction
Made by Dean Zelinsky, the bass is the crown jewel of a forthcoming auction of the late Dusty Hill's instrument and memorabilia collection
Bassists, ditch your pedalboards: the Sterling by Music Man DarkRay features two Darkglass distortion circuits in one bass
The Music Man DarkRay is now available as a more budget-friendly Sterling offering
“I had like a bass drug deal”: Keanu Reeves recalls buying his first-ever bass guitar… from a stranger in the parking lot of a Guitar Center
John Wick himself discusses his recently revived alt-rock trio, Dogstar, and recalls taking bass lessons from Flea in a new interview with Fender
“My Gibson is still the coolest looking bass guitar ever!” Frankie Poullain remains a committed Thunderbird player – just don’t ask him about beer-throwing fans
The Darkness bassist on reinventing what it means to be a rock star in 2023: "You can't behave in that stereotypical rock star way..."
This historic Fender Precision Bass lay hidden underneath a bed for over 50 years – now it’s going up for auction
The ’60s bass is believed to be one of the first to ever land in the UK, arriving in the country not long after The Shadows' Jet Harris received the UK's premier Fender P-Bass
“Gene Simmons is breaking ground again”: Gibson unveils second signature bass guitar for the Kiss icon – and it’s the brand’s first 30.5” scale custom shop model
Following Simmons' G² Thunderbird model from last year, the limited-edition EB-0 is based on the bassist's heavily modded '59 example, which he used throughout the 1970s
