Tom Hamilton bass guitarist of Aerosmith talks about his favourite basses

Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith has used alot of basses through the years. He talks about some of his new and old basses with a brief story of each one to go with it.

Bass 1: Parker Fly Bass - Tom descibes this bass as a new high tech bass with alot of science to make it. Tom was presented this in 2003, he was the presented the first Parker Fly bass of the production line with serial number 0001. Heres Parker Guitar article about it Tom Hamilton Parker Fly bass

Bass 2: Tompkins guitars bass - Custom made bass from Australia specially made for Tom Hamilton. The maker of the bass guitar saw Tom holding one of the basses he made on the Honkin on Bobo album cover with I assume is the bass in the pictu
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So after the bass maker saw this he came over the America and made another bass specially for Tom. heres a link to the bass maker and their version of the story http://www.tomkinsguitars.com/tom_hamilton.html
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Bass 3: Tom Hamiltons favourite bass. Not sure what bass this is I think its one of his Sadowsky basses but I'm not sure. If anyones got more info on this let me know.

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