Aria Basses

During Metallica's Orion Festival appearance in Detroit, they played "Kill 'Em All" from start to finish. For "An...

Well, hot on the heels of the SB Black 'n' Gold Cliff Burton Tribute, Aria Guitars have come out with a slightly more budget...

Recently I came across this strange Aria, or "Wariawick", as I like to call it. At first I thought it was just an Aria Integra...

At long last, an official Aria Pro II Cliff Burton Signature Bass. Although Aria Guitars have produced other "unofficial...

Some time ago, I blogged about Cliff's SB-1000  surfacing in my first - and to date  only - installment of "Famous Arias"...

It looks like Aria is introducing a new Integra bass for the new year: the IGB-50 ROSE . This is an interesting addition to the long...

Here are some sound samples from my Aria Pro II Black 'n' Gold I. My goal for this sample was to try and reproduce Cliff Burt...

Phil from Ireland sends in pictures and sound samples of a rare neck-through Integra series bass. Phil says his bass was made in Korea ...

Hello again, here is a demo of yet another SB-Integra (MIJ 1986). This time, it's from a different bassist, Mike, who shows off wh...

Greetings! Here is a demo I made for my Aria Pro II SB JR-600. The JR, which stood for "junior", was a short-lived series fr...

A demo for the IGB-600. Not my best playing or recording but you'll get the idea of how it sounds compared to the SB-Integra.

Here's a demo I made of the SB-1000CB to show some of the tones available from this model. 

Here is my demo of an SB-Integra...Apologies in advance for shoddy playing! 

Here's a video of Billy Gould during the recording sessions of Faith No More's seminal album  Angel Dust.  In it, Bill plays an Aria...

Well, things have been pretty slow on my blog for quite some time due to my grad school studies. I probably won't be able to do many upd...

Trevor,  who earlier documented the neck repair of his SB-Elite , now has a great site which documents how he modified the electronics with ...

Back on September 3, 1998 I went to see Metallica play an outdoor show at Portland (Oregon) Meadows. It was quite an experience, to say th...

IGB-DLX 5 & IGB-85B Jake from Australia sends in pics of his two Aria Pro II Integra basses. They're both early '90s models w...

This is the first in what I hope to be a regular series of posts on "famous" Arias basses. I will post about basses that were owne...