Craig Adams

I got an Ibanez Roadster then. That got smashed as well – the body split down the middle. A bloke in Hull said ‘I’ll fix it for you’, so he glued it back together and bolted a big brass plate across the front of the thing to hold it together. That was basically the bass I used throughout the ‘Sisters’. We played the Albert Hall, and I played this £70 guitar! That was it and it was fine until I lost it. It disappeared and I do not know where it’s gone. I’ll know it as soon as I see it because of this great brass plate on the front. It was the heaviest guitar in the world!

Photo of Craig holding a squier jazz bass

Item can be seen at 43'22''

With The Cult again I used an Ampeg set up with two SVT heads, two 15″ speakers on the bottom and two 8 x 10″‘s – it sounded great.

The Cult album we recorded with Bob Rock we used a Portaflex almost exclusively. That’s not too loud, but it sounds great.

With The Cult again I used an Am peg set up with two SVT heads, two 15″ speakers on the bottom and two 8 x 10″‘s – it sounded great.

Craig used a Westbury Track II in "Antique Walnut" finish as his first Sisters bass from 1981 to 1983

On the right of this image, you can see an HH V-S Musician 212 combo

This is the guitar amp that Craig used in the early days before using Trace Elliot and Ampeg amps

" Well, in the ‘Sisters’, at the beginning I used to use an H & H guitar combo with a fuzz box! "

Craig shortly used a Rickenbacker 4001 in 1984, it was rented for the recording of First and Last and Always and used live a handful of times, before he came back to his Ibanez

In this 1987 video of The Mission, Craig can be seen playing a Gibson RD Artist bass, visible by the headstock inlay

Craig Adams is seen here using a boss DS1 pedal.

Boss DS1 used live 1984-85.