Musical Equipment
Clayton's basses include:
- Fender Precision Bass
- Fender Jazz Bass
- Gibson Thunderbird Bass
- Gibson Les Paul Triumph Bass
- Gibson Les Paul 70's Recording Bass, unknown model
- Lakland Joe Osborn Signature Bass
- Lakland Darryl Jones Signature Bass (with Chi-Sonic pick-ups)
- Auerswald Custom Bass
- Epiphone Rivoli bass (seen in the "Get On Your Boots" music video)
- Rickenbacker 4001 Bass - used in the early days of U2 circa 1978/9
- Status John Entwistle Buzzard Bass
- Warwick Adam Clayton Reverso Signature bass, and various custom shop Streamers.
- Gibson RD Bass
- Aguilar DB 751 bass amp
- Aguilar DB 410 & 115 cabs
Throughout his career, Clayton has used both Precision and Jazz basses. His first bass, however, was a dark brown Ibanez Musician. He uses Ashdown amplifiers and blue Herdim picks, as does bandmate The Edge. Clayton's Precision basses are modified with a Fender Jazz neck; in an interview with Bass Player magazine, he said that he prefers the Jazz bass neck because it is more "lady-like" and is a better fit in his left hand. In 2011 the Fender Custom Shop produced a limited-edition signature Precision Bass built to his own specifications in a limited run of 60 pieces, featuring an alder body and a gold sparkle finish.
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