Pino Palladino

Pino Palladino playing the Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay Fretless Bass for a performance with PSP in this YouTube video.

As can be seen in the video source, Palladino used his signature bass for a performance with John Mayer at Eric Clapton's 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival.

In a discussion on TalkBass.com, a user mentioned seeing Pino Palladino play an Epiphone Jack Casady Signature bass during his recent performance with John Mayer.

Pino Palladino played a Moon JJ-4 300B bass, recognizable by its completely white finish, during the Voodoo tour with D'Angelo from March to October 2000. A photo from Soulfest Brisbane 2014, available on Beaveronthebeats, shows Pino using this distinctive bass. Notably, he tuned his Moon basses down one whole step (D-G-C-F), a technique shared by the legendary Larry Graham, also a known Moon bass player.

In this photo we can see Pino with his Freedom bass.

This image shows Pino playing a Fender JAB J-Craft Jaguar Bass (Deluxe Jaguar Bass).

The image provided is from a 2021 Fender article on the Jaguar bass. It had the caption, "(In 2012) Pino Palladino rocks a Jag Bass while performing with the Who, including on the group’s recent Quadrophenia and More tour." As per Fender, the bass is featured on The Who's 2013 album, 'Live in London.'

https://web.archive.org/web/20211016235509/https://www.fender.com/en/electric-basses/jaguar-bass-feature/

A Mixdown Magazine article claimed that his Jag bass was equipped with Thunderbird pickups. There are pictures online to support his use of the pickups on a precision bass, but not on the Jaguar.

In this video we can see Pino using his Lakland p bass.

Pino Palladino uses a Fender Precision Bass, equipped with two Thunderbird pickups, while touring with The Who. This information is supported by a photo on Talkbass.

In this photo we can see pino with a vintage Fender P bass, while touring with The Who.

at 1:29 you can get a very good view of the body. You can clearly see from the bridge that it is a 5 string lakland bass.

here is also a picture of Carl Pidego working on pinos bass https://www.dlakinbasses.com/wp-content/uploads/Carl-working-on-a-34_-scale-single-pickup-5-string-for-Pino-Palladino.jpg

In this photo we can see Pino's Harmony H22 bass behind John Mayer and beside Pino, during the 2010 Crossroads guitar festival.

In this photo we can see Pino with a Lakland J bass

Scott mentions the Warwick thumb around 4:30

The video mentions both the 4 string as well as the 5 string Musicman (around 4m)

Scott mentions the Pedulla fretless around 4:35

Pino Palladino used the Ernie Ball Music Man Bongo bass during The Who tour, as documented by The Bass Gallery.

Pino favored a vintage 1961 Fender Precision in the early 2000s, which he notably used on Paul Simon’s 2006 album Surprise. The body of his signature edition Fiesta Red p-bass is based on it, while the neck was based on a 1963.