Glenn Hughes

In recent years, Glenn's main basses are Nash Precision basses and Jazz basses. He uses a red P bass and a white one as backup.

After giving the Rickenbacker that he used on the Burn album and first few dates of the tour to Geezer Butler, he went and got this natural P bass that he would use for several years.

“Thanks @swedenrockfest???? here I am playing my new Yamaha GH signature Bass???? remember ?look closely at my Bass?”

Glenn Hughes used this late 1973 (evidenced by the photo being taken in early 1974, but the bass not having the 'toaster' pickup that came on most 1973 basses) Ricky 4001, at Ritchie Blackmore's urging, to record the Burn album and the first few dates of the tour. He then gave it to Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath who used it for a few dates, and now keeps it safe at his home. Glenn has since said he regrets giving it to the Sabbath bassist.

As well as his two Nash PB-57s, and real Fender Jazz bass, Glenn uses a black JB-63.

"I was at school with [ex-Trapeze and Whitesnake guitarist] Mel Galley - RIP - he was my hero, but he didn't even know I existed. I was in short pants - I must have been 12 and he was 15. Over the course of the next few years we befriended each other. He joined a band called Finders Keepers, so when their bassist left in '68, he asked me if I would be interested in switching from guitar - my first instrument. I really wanted to play with him, so I bought a bass from the bass player of that group and I started to play. So my first bass was a Salmon '62 Fender J bass."

Glenn Hughes with Yamaha SB-75 in this photo.

This is the signature bass glen did with orange. The bass is in a “deep purple” finish. The finish matches the similar color of his orange crush bass amp. The bass comes loaded with duncan spb-1 pickups.