Tina Weymouth's Gear

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Weymouth can be seen in this photo playing a Fender Mustang Bass.

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From 4:55, Tina's Hofner can be seen clearly

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In this photo, Weymouth can be seen playing a Fender Musicmaster.

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In this photo, Weymouth can be seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Triumph Bass.

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Tina Weymouth would often use a Jazz Bass live and in studio with Tom Tom Club. She would also use one at the 2002 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction of Talking Heads.

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"I still have it. It was a Fender Precision, a good pre-CBS one."

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In this image, Tina Weymouth can be seen playing her Fender Swinger.

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Per this concert photo from Talking Heads' 1983 tour, courtesy Michael Conen.

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Item can be seen at 3'32''.

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Tina Weymouth can be seen playing Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 in this photo.

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"I played keyboard bass whenever we were writing just to get things moving fast, because it can take forever to get a bass guitar sound. I'd then replace the keyboard parts after everything else had gone on, because bass strings cut through so great. In addition to the Prophet, I have a little Moog Rogue I used in the Stop Making Sense movie. These analog instruments sound a lot fatter, but I like the fat, funky sound of a real instrument.”"

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Used live with Tom Tom Club in 1988, as stated in this 1988 interview with Tony Bacon posted to Reverb.com on November 21, 2018.

What amplification are you using on this Tom Tom Club tour [in 1988]?

A reliable old Gallien-Krueger 400B amplifier and a Trace Elliot 2x15 cabinet. Some people can't stand that amp, but I like it because it's very clean. It cuts better.

I bought myself a book on guitars and it had a picture of me from way back in 1978. I got it because they had a picture of an old Martin acoustic, just like this hundred-year-old Martin that I bought for next to nothing. I got it from some convent somewhere, and it looks exactly like one they have in the Metropolitan in New York, which they say is from somewhere between 1870 and 1880. So I bought the book for that reason, and then I found this picture of myself with this severe criticism, "What she uses is not what a bass player should use."

See, I wasn't using folded horns in the amp setup, and they seemed to think that what a bass player should be using was a little PA. But if I used that on stage, the other players would kill me [laughs]! I just need something that tells me where I am, and then I have to rely totally on the soundman. I can get the finest sound, and then in the hall it's going to be entirely different anyway. It's just a constant losing battle, stage sound.

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Tina Weymouth uses Duck Tape on her Hofner bass, as evidenced by a photograph showing it possibly securing the bridge.

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Tina Weymouth is confirmed to use La Bella 760FS Deep Talkin' Flat Wounds strings during the Talking Heads' performance at the 2002 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. This is evident from the black silk ends, shiny smooth reflection, and absence of string noise, all characteristic features of LaBella flatwound strings, as observed in the video provided by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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In this video it says that Weymouth used the pedal during stop making sense

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In this video it says that Weymouth used the pedal during stop making sense

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In this video it says that Weymouth used this on stop making sense

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In this video it says that SM58s where used during stop making sense

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