John Deacon
John Deacon's Bass Guitars
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This image shows John playing a Stingray bass on stage.
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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.
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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.
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Deacon can be seen in this photo with a natural finish Fender Jazz Bass.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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)
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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.
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John Deacon played a Wal Mk II Bass during a jam session with Martin Chambers of the Pretenders and tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis in 1983, although he did not own the instrument, according to Peter Hince in 2004. Additionally, Deacon is seen using the Wal Mk II Bass at The Prince's Trust Rock Concert in 1988, as shown in the YouTube video featuring Joe Cocker and Brian May. It remains unclear whether he used this bass on his solo project, "Man Friday and Jive Junior."
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