Horace Panter

In this image Horace can be seen playing a Gibson Thunderbird IV Bass.

In an interview with iBass magazine Horace revealed how he acquired the instrument "I bought myself a Gibson Thunderbird for my 50th birthday. I remember the first reggae band I ever saw were The Cimarons, and their bass player played a Gibson Thunderbird and he looked great!”

Interview: https://www.ibassmag.com/horace-panter-the-specials/

Horace Panter is seen using a Fender Jazz Bass, specifically a Japanese model with upgraded Seymour Duncan pickups, as shown in a photograph on Reggae-steady-ska.

Horace Panter's 1973 Fender Telecaster Bass can be seen in this picture during a performace with The Specials.

In this interview with iBass magazine from 1:18 onwards Horace talks about the bass.

https://youtu.be/vfr2KgKxPwM

In this article it states that "His first bass was a semi-acoustic Rosetti Bass 8, and his first band, Mobius, (for which he was also the vocalist) played covers of contemporary rock bands like Cream and Free."

This is the Fender Precision Bass Horace used to record Ghost Town with The Specials. He subsequnelty sold the bass before reacquiring it in 2017.

In the article Horace states that “I occasionally wondered what had happened to it and had a hankering to get it back, so it was always in the back of my mind. It was quite a shock to see it up on the wall in Noise Works. It was odd to realise that I had such a personal attachment to what is basically a piece of wood but a musical instrument is more than that. Especially knowing that I played it on such an important song as Ghost Town"