I really enjoy the tone that Tom Hamilton gets out of his Music Man Stingray...

[Ivan May]

While he mostly played a Fender Precision Bass with a maple neck, an alpine White Gibson Thunderbird bass and a stacked knob 1960 Fender Jazz Bass on every Aerosmith album from their first album up to Rocks, some of the album Draw The Line was allegedly recorded with a Jazz Bass and a Music Man Stingray. Legend is that the sunburst Music Man Stingray Tom Hamilton used on Draw The Line was one of the first Music Man ever made in 1976, thus making it a highly collectible bass.

 

 

 

Since then, he used a StingRay Bass to record the albums Permanent Vacation, Pump, Nine Lives, and some of Just Push Play. He even used a StingRay to record the demo tracks for Get a Grip, before switching to an F Bass. Tom toured with StingRay basses throughout the late 1970s, but has only toured with them occasionally since. However, he has been seen with both four and five string StingRay models on the 2022 leg of the "Deuces Are Wild" Tour. In an interview, Tom Hamilton noted that he was very proud of the tone he got from his early model StingRay Bass on the Pump album.

 

He also used the Stingray and a Music Man Sabre bass on the album Night In The Ruts, namely to record on the tracks Remember Walking In The Sand and Three Mile Smile.

 

 

 

 

 

I also believe that Tom Hamilton used an Ampeg SVT and an Ampeg B15 amp on some of those early Aerosmith albums. He is a great bassist and he certainly can be heard on a lot of great songs, like Mama Kin and Walk This Way.

 

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