How It Was Recorded

Gear · bass guitar

Music Man StingRay

Records it appears on · 3

  • Chinese Democracy

    Guns N' Roses · Album, 2008

    • Bass · InstrumentVerifiedA StingRay was played on a few tunes on the album, which Stinson says suited the newer material.
  • Breakfast in America

    Supertramp · Album, 1979

    • Bass · InstrumentReportedThomson's new bass for the album, played with flat-wound strings; Henderson rates it among the best basses he has recorded.
  • The Logical Song

    Supertramp · Breakfast in America, 1979

    • Bass · InstrumentReportedThomson's new bass guitar, played with flat-wound strings.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Alternative

Sterling by Music Man StingRay Ray4 (black)

Sterling is Music Man's licensed lower-priced line, and the Ray4 follows the StingRay's single-humbucker layout; it is not the American-made bass.

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