Jared Followill

Throughout this video of Kings of Leon performing "Closer" live on Letterman, Jared Followill can be seen playing a black Gibson Thunderbird bass. You can have a good look at it at the 3:00 mark, where you can see he has on it a custom pickguard with "KOL" on it.

At 3:18 you can see the bridge of the guitar is gold, as it is on the Gibson Thunderbird Bicentennial Reissue version of this bass.

the was the first bass that jared started using when kings of leon started. you can get a good view of the guitar at 0:07 into the video

In this photo of Jared Followill performing live, he can be seen playing an Epiphone Thunderbird Classic-IV Bass Guitar in an Alpine White finish.

Jared plays a precision bass in the music video for four kicks

Here is Jared using a jazz bass in this picture. It could be a Jaco sig or just a jazz bass with no pickguard, I cant really tell if it's fretless or not

In this interview from Bassplayer, Jared Followill is asked about his amp setup. He says, "I have my live sound pretty much dialed in, but when we get into the studio and the engineers bring out some sort of new rig, I get totally sucked into it. I basically try to get the crunchy sound I get with my live rig, an Ampeg SVT Classic with two 8x10 cabs."

This photo is from the official Audio Kitchen site, and shows Kings of Leon bass player Jared Followill using the Audio Kitchen Base Chopper amp head (original source here: http://www.audiokitchen.co.uk/project/jared-followill-kings-of-leon/)

The official TC Electronic website lists the BH250 as one of the products he uses. The article says, "What is more, the BH250 bass amp and Flashback x4 are always backstage with Jared before shows."

Talking about Kings of Leon’s album "Mechanical Bull," the official TC Electronic site says Jared "...Recently ... added the 'Hall of Fame Reverb' to his pedal board." Original source link here.

Listed on his TC Electronic artist profile page. Quote from the article: "Seeing how reverbs were Jared’s most used effect type for the recording of “Mechanical Bull”, TC effects are now a key element in Kings of Leon’s live sound. What is more, the BH250 bass amp and Flashback x4 are always backstage with Jared before shows." Original source found here.

Listed as one of the pedals used by Jared Followill on the TC Electronic site. Original source found here.

Jared Followill's Boss ME-50B Bass Multiple Effects Pedal can be seen around 0:32 in this video of his bass gear rundown. Jared's guitar tech then goes on to demonstrate how the opening bass riff of the song Closer is achieved, by using the pedal of the ME-50B to pitch the sound up.

In this video, Jared Followill's guitar/bass tech says that Jared "runs a bunch of effects, you can tell we've run everything through a GCX Ground Control Switcher," which refers to the Voodoo Lab GCX Guitar Audio Switcher (0:18 into the video).

At 0:46 their guitar tech is shown demonstrating the Boss ME-50 for the beginning riff of Closer.

Around 0:25 in this video of Jared Followill's bass rig walkthrough, his guitar/bass tech shows that Jared uses the Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro MIDI Foot Controller out on the floor, next to his tuner and an extra reverb pedal.

In this photo of Jared Followill during soundcheck, he can be seen playing a Korg MicroKORG Synthesizer. Photo credit Mick Hutson.