John Norwood Fisher

Can be seen playing a FNA Jazzman on this photo

Listed among Fisher's gear in the May 1991 Musician interview "Fishbone Swims Upstream To Spawn Its Punk-Funk Hybrid" by Roy Trakin.

JOHN NORWOOD FISHER plays a Warwick thumb bass with a bubinga and wengewood body, a fretless Fender bass and an Alembic bass, with Dean Markley Blue Steel strings, through an EBS-1 preamp and a Trace Elliot MP-11 mini-programmable preamp and an Eventide H-3000 SE Ultra-Harmonizer. with a Rockman Mini-Octopus for the switching. He also uses EPS-600 and Trace Elliot RA-500 SuperX power amps and two SWR Goliath speakers. In addition, live he uses a Musictronics Mu-Tron 3 envelope filter/effects box, which "gives him a bow-wow bass sound just like Bootsy Collins."

Listed among Fisher's gear in the May 1991 Musician interview "Fishbone Swims Upstream To Spawn Its Punk-Funk Hybrid" by Roy Trakin.

JOHN NORWOOD FISHER plays a Warwick thumb bass with a bubinga and wengewood body, a fretless Fender bass and an Alembic bass, with Dean Markley Blue Steel strings, through an EBS-1 preamp and a Trace Elliot MP-11 mini-programmable preamp and an Eventide H-3000 SE Ultra-Harmonizer. with a Rockman Mini-Octopus for the switching. He also uses EPS-600 and Trace Elliot RA-500 SuperX power amps and two SWR Goliath speakers. In addition, live he uses a Musictronics Mu-Tron 3 envelope filter/effects box, which "gives him a bow-wow bass sound just like Bootsy Collins."

Listed among Fisher's gear as a "Rockman Mini-Octopus" in the May 1991 Musician interview "Fishbone Swims Upstream To Spawn Its Punk-Funk Hybrid" by Roy Trakin.

JOHN NORWOOD FISHER plays a Warwick thumb bass with a bubinga and wengewood body, a fretless Fender bass and an Alembic bass, with Dean Markley Blue Steel strings, through an EBS-1 preamp and a Trace Elliot MP-11 mini-programmable preamp and an Eventide H-3000 SE Ultra-Harmonizer. with a Rockman Mini-Octopus for the switching. He also uses EPS-600 and Trace Elliot RA-500 SuperX power amps and two SWR Goliath speakers. In addition, live he uses a Musictronics Mu-Tron 3 envelope filter/effects box, which "gives him a bow-wow bass sound just like Bootsy Collins."

Listed among Fisher's gear in the May 1991 Musician interview "Fishbone Swims Upstream To Spawn Its Punk-Funk Hybrid" by Roy Trakin.

JOHN NORWOOD FISHER plays a Warwick thumb bass with a bubinga and wengewood body, a fretless Fender bass and an Alembic bass, with Dean Markley Blue Steel strings, through an EBS-1 preamp and a Trace Elliot MP-11 mini-programmable preamp and an Eventide H-3000 SE Ultra-Harmonizer. with a Rockman Mini-Octopus for the switching. He also uses EPS-600 and Trace Elliot RA-500 SuperX power amps and two SWR Goliath speakers. In addition, live he uses a Musictronics Mu-Tron 3 envelope filter/effects box, which "gives him a bow-wow bass sound just like Bootsy Collins."

Listed among Fisher's gear in the May 1991 Musician interview "Fishbone Swims Upstream To Spawn Its Punk-Funk Hybrid" by Roy Trakin.

JOHN NORWOOD FISHER plays a Warwick thumb bass with a bubinga and wengewood body, a fretless Fender bass and an Alembic bass, with Dean Markley Blue Steel strings, through an EBS-1 preamp and a Trace Elliot MP-11 mini-programmable preamp and an Eventide H-3000 SE Ultra-Harmonizer. with a Rockman Mini-Octopus for the switching. He also uses EPS-600 and Trace Elliot RA-500 SuperX power amps and two SWR Goliath speakers. In addition, live he uses a Musictronics Mu-Tron 3 envelope filter/effects box, which "gives him a bow-wow bass sound just like Bootsy Collins."

In this interview with Warwick, Norwood talks about how Robert DeLeo from Stone Temple Pilots sold him his first Warwick Thumb Bass.

In this video of Norwood talking about his slap techniques, he can be seen playing a 5 string Warwick Infinity

In this instagram post you can see Norwood with one of P-Nut of 311’s signature bass. You can tell it’s a P-Nut signature and not an FNA Streamer by the Hipshot X-Tender and the fret inlays starting at the 5th fret.

In this instagram post, you can see Norwood with a Bolt-On 5-String Thumb. The Warwick website backs up this fact too on his artist page

In this instagram post you can see Norwood holding a fretless Warwick Star Bass

In this Pinterest post you can see Norwood presumably in an ad for Warwick with a 5 string Alien bass. He’s also been spotted with a fretless variation.

In this live performance of Freddie’s Dead at Pinkpop, Norwood can be seen with a 5 string Alembic Series 1. It’s silhouette can also been seen in the music video for Freddie’s Dead.

In this photo of a younger Norwood, you can see him holding a Peavey T-40, he can also be seen using it in footage from their documentary “Everyday Sunshine”

In this performance of unyielding conditioning on the Conan show, Norwood can be seen playing a fretless 5 string thumb.

In this instagram post celebrating Norwood’s birthday, you can see a younger Norwood holding an Ovation B778

At the beginning of the music video for When Problems Arise, Norwood can be seen slapping on a White P Bass

Throughout the music video for Ma and Pa and in numerous live videos from the Truth and Soul era, Norwood can be seen with a 4 string NS-2

In this screenshot of a photo of Norwood from around the “Reality of my Surroundings” era, a pair of EMG pickups can be seen in his Warwick Thumb 5 string

In this video from Norwood’s YouTube channel where he demonstrates his pedal board, a Dunlop bass wah can be seen among his many other pedals