Bass Magazine (Japan)

 
 

Bass MAgazine for professional & amateur bassists

 

  • Article Title

  • Magazine

  • Country

  • Date

  • Pages

  • Chris Chaney’s Bass Collection!

  • Bass Magazine

  • Japan

  • June 2007

  • 130-139

Bass Magazine for Professional & Amateur Bassists began as a bi-monthly publication in 1986 then eventually was published monthly. The magazine’s offices are in Tokyo, Japan and the magazine is still in being published in print every month.

This article displays the 35 bass guitars in the collection of Chris Chaney, bassist for Alanis Morissette and Jane’s Addiction. A burst-finish Hamer B12L 12-string bass is included.

 

A rough translation of the text:

“Chris, a big fan of Cheap Trick's Tom Petersson, acquired this 12-string bass through a friend of the owner of the Hamer company. This is a 4-string bass with octave strings tuned one octave up added to each string, and with two high-strings played with the down-stroke of the pick, the high-strings will sound first, so it produces a very wide, double-tone sound different than any other instrument. Therefore, it is said that using this instrument will come up with a bass part that is completely different sounding. He hasn't used it in the studio, but he says he wants to use it in his own projects.”

 
 

Bass MAgazine Volume 38 - Issue 7 No. 3 - 1993

An interview of Doug Wimbish of Living Colour includes two photos of his custom Warwick 12-string bass, including the front cover.

Doug Wimbish and his custom Warwick 12-string bass.

The magazine also includes an ad for a Hamer B12S 12-string bass with a “stadium” logo on the headstock.

Bass MAgazine Volume 33 - Issue 6 No. 2 - 1992

Tom Petersson and several of his Hamer B12A 12-string basses.

A full page shows Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick and three of his Hamer B12A 12-string basses.

The checkerboard “Elvis” Hamer B12A 12-string bass and its stand when played as an upright bass. A hole was drilled into the body of the bass, and the stand is a pool cue.

 
 

Bass Magazine - July 1996 Issue

This issue of Bass Magazine for Professional & Amateur Bassists includes Doug Pinnick and the headstock of his Hamer short-scale B12S 12-string bass on the front cover. The article includes several photos of his 12-string Hamer basses.