John Deacon

This image shows John playing a Stingray bass on stage.

In this music video for Queen's song "Don't Stop Me Now," at 1:12, John Deacon can be seen playing a Precision bass.

In this photo, Deacon can be seen tuning up his Fretless Fender Precision Bass.

John Deacon is playing a Kramer DMZ 4001 in the Top Of The Pops performance of Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) in 1981.

Deacon can be seen in this photo with a natural finish Fender Jazz Bass.

This picture show John Deacon playing his Rickenbacker. He used the bass for his audition for Queen, the very first concerts and the recording sessions at De Lane Lea in 1971.

John Deacon can be seen here with his Fender Precison Bass Elite I. He used on songs such as One Vision and I Want it All.

John used this bass for Queen's performance at the Montreux Pop Festival in 1986. The same bass can also be seen in the promotional video for the 1986 Queen single "Friends Will Be Friends" off of the "A Kind Of Magic" album from the same year.

"...on the last American tour I picked up a very old Fender, one of the really early ones with the small straight pickup which is quite nice and I'm just getting used to it. I used it when we were doing some recording in Germany on one track, but I still ended up coming back to my other Precisions." (INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN '79)

Although he has used this bass on a jam session with Martin Chambers from Pretenders and Tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis in 1983, he didn't possess it (Mr Peter Hince, 2004). Whether he also used it on his first solo work Man Friday and Jive Junior is still unknown. appeared also on The Prince's Trust Rock Concert '88.

Here you can see John Deacon perform Another One Bites The Dust live with the Stingray.

"That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while." (INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN '79)

John can be seen here with his Fender Precison Special. You can distinctlively hear this bass with its 2-band EQ and flatwounds on Under Pressure.

John Deacon used this amplifier during Queen tours in 1972 - 1974.

2 x 4" x 12" Sound City cabinets.

Segun el video, Deacon lo uso en grabaciones ademas de May

There are numerous videos on youtube with him using two of these but there are just so many Queen videos on youtube of course that I couldn't find one when I went looking, so I went to a Queen tribute band site which lists John's equipment. I will post a video when I find one.

Peavy 2x15 cabinet is a part of John Deacons rig in Spread Your Wings/We Will Rock You music videos.

John used this amplifier paired with his 1965 Sunburst Fender Precision Bass live sometime around 1975

at the times 1:13 , 1:56 , ETC . John can be seen playing the upright bass.

Used with a Fender Precision Bass Elite and can be seen clearly from 1:45 to 1:52 during "Under Pressure" live at Montreal 1981.

John Deacon used flatwounds for all of his bass guitars, and Rotosound was his number one choice! Rotosound being one of the top string companies at the time in England, many artist used these strings. In the early years, he used Rotosound RS66 Swing Bass roundwound strings, as heard on the self-titled album, Queen. Because his playing style was either hard finger picking or normal plectrum picking, he decided to use heavy guage strings to accomidate.

Superwound bass strings arn't made anymore but Rotosound do offer piano string range which are the same thing. Superwound bass strings are when the core of the strings are exposed over the bridge, they then have the wound part of the string just after the bridge. These strings offer a "big bass guitar sound" ( John Deacon ) with a bit of twang.

John Deacon used this guitar in live performances of Queen song "Staying Power" in 1982.

"That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while." (INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN '79)

Custom-built for him by Roger Giffin. Essentially a 2-pickup Precision clone, it features a ghost inlay on the 12th fret.

In the 1983 concert at the bowl, John Deacon used a fender stratocaster for his preformance of "Staying Power"