Aria Basses

I posted about an Aria 50th anniversary bass last year, but I finally found pictures of another anniversary bass. This might also be a 5oth...

Here is a rare headless SB with MIDI capabilities that I found online. As you can see, it is an "AP Custom Shop" bass. I have no i...

Neil with SB-1000 and SB-900 in 1981 Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Cozy Powell,...

I came across some amazing old footage of the pre- Faith No More band, Faith. No Man which had two future FNM members Billy Gould and Mike...

Recently, I found an Aria Pro II IGB-600 in Japan that needed a bit of TLC (don't they all?). I took a chance on it and had it shipped...

Similar to Shawn's SB-1000 , I found a bass also in need of some new electronics and a pickup. The bass in question is a 1980 RSB-900 , ...

Naturally, I think Aria Pro II SB-1000 s are some of the best basses around, classics even. However, they are somewhat notorious for sufferi...

Not only does fellow Aria aficionado Seo do a fine job of modifying basses to look like Cliff Burton's Black 'n' Gold (pictur...

Nuno sent me some really cool and rare (to me at least!) photos of Cliff Burton. The photos are of Cliff and his SB-1000 during Metallica...

A huge "thank you" to Yutaka for providing me scans of the Aria Pro II 1979, 1982, 1983, and 1984 catalogs ! The catalogs are in ...

Shawn sends in pics of his electronically restored 1980 SB-1000 . It had been gutted of its original pickup/electronics and replaced with an...