Equipment File #2: Ibanez bass

Ibanez CT Series bass guitar

The Studio had been using an electric guitar for its music since early 1988. But a bass guitar wasn't used until the early 90's.

The first appearance of a bass guitar was in the song "Paroxysm" from the 1991 Mune Mud album Olympus. Jason had borrowed the bass from a friend. He recorded a couple of songs with it and used it in some jam sessions with the band Pheonix. And unlike the borrowed electric guitar, this bass was returned to the friend.

Then one of his high school friends moved to Monmouth, IL, to attend college. During one of his trips to visit her they went to the Quad Cities area to go shopping. While there they went into a music store and that is where Jason found his bass guitar. But he wasn't sure if he should buy it, so they left. By the time he got home a few days later, he realized he should have bought it. So on April 29, 1992, he drove back to the Quad Cities and bought the bass.

The bass has been used at the Studio and in his jam sessions ever since. It has its popular times and sometimes it will sit for a year or more without being used. But it is the only bass the Studio has ever owned.