Tom Hamilton

Tom can be seen in a live shot on the power ballad cover, 'Kings and Queens' from the album Draw the Line by Aerosmith playing a Music Man Stingray Bass.

According to Tom Hamilton's guitar tech at 3:20 in this video, the biggest gun in Tom Hamilton's tone arsenal is a Sadowsky 5-string bass.

As seen in this interview at 3:00, Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith uses a Dusenberg Starplayer TV bass for an upright bass sound.

In this video at 4:00, Tom Hamilton's guitar tech calls this F bass the Aerosmith bassist's "best sounding bass."

Tom can be see in this video with his new signature ASAT Bass guitar

This photo of Black and white Fender Precision Bass Guitar of Tom Hamilton was taken in Hard Rock Cafe at Cologne, Germany.

In this video at 2:40, Tom Hamilton's guitar tech shows us the Aerosmith bassists' most recognizable bass.

At 2:30 in this video, you'll see Tom Hamilton's signature bass. He also uses the other G&L ASAT Bass Tom Hamilton signature model color schemes.

" Whatcha think? Kick ass right!" Tom in a tweet from 24 Mar 2012

Article from Premier Guitar magazine 2/8/13: Fullerton, CA (February 8, 2013) -- Aerosmith’s Tom Hamilton has been playing G&L ASAT Basses for nearly twenty years since he bought his first blue metal flake ASAT Bass at 48th Street Custom Guitars in New York City. Since then, G&L has built several more ASAT Basses in a variety of finishes, but there’s something about G&L’s over-the-top metal flake finishes that keeps him coming back for more.

Tom loves the tone, the way the ASAT Bass cuts through the mix in a live setting and the way it tracks beautifully in the studio. Why mess with such a good thing? Well, after listening carefully to Tom’s live performance and studio tracks, G&L VP Engineering Paul Gagon thought he could dial in the pickups to suit Tom’s style even more. Ideas were exchanged and prototypes were built, carefully moving the output and resonant peak until the perfect spec was nailed. Aiden Mullen, Tom’s tech, had this to say:

“The new bass you built for Tom is fantastic, and he started tracking with it like twenty minutes after it arrived. Every G&L we get is excellent, and the new pickups are perfect.” Today, G&L is proud to introduce the new ASAT Bass Tom Hamilton Signature Model featuring the new “Hamiltone” Magnetic Field Design humbucking pickups mounted in a Western Sugar Pine body for reduced weight and an aged-satin-finished quartersawn maple neck that better withstands the rigors of worldwide touring. Naturally, the model features G&L’s stunning metal flake finishes, available in Blue, Red or Turquoise Metal Flake with a fresh twist: Silver Metal Flake faux double-binding for even more visual pop on stage. Tom’s signature and special caricature are placed discreetly on the rear of the headstock.

MSRP for the ASAT Bass Tom Hamilton Signature Model is $2,665.

Mentioned in this May 1986 Guitar for the Practicing Musician interview.

TOMMY: [...] Until I got this '59 P Bass, my old fallback was a '63 Stack Pot Jazz bass which always seemed to make it onto the records.