A HISTORY OF WAL BASSES

The Wonderful World of the Woods of Wal – Part 2, Bodies In this second feature looking at the woods employed by Wal in building ...

The Wonderful World of the Woods of Wal – Part 1, Necks In Ian Waller and Pete Stevens the early 1970s cooked up a perfect recipe...

JG1124 - John Glascock's JG bass, and  JG1127 - Theo de Jong's first JG bass JG1114 - Pete Hurley's (Lone Star) JG bass  ...

JG1147 - Gary Tibbs' JG Bass JG1148 - Theo de Jong's second JG bass Our last two JG basses are a couple of celebrity sp...

JG1128 - John Entwistle's fretless JG bass JG1145 - “Snotburst” JG In the second and third of the JG bass galleries as p...

JG1117 - Phillip Knight's JG bass. JG1113 - Pete Zorn's JG bass JG1117 It's funny how sometimes life stores th...

John Gustafson's original JG bass (JG1112) and Martin Elliott's solid ash Custom Series basses John Gustafson in 1978 with the...

Every so often something comes along in life that forces you to reevaluate. Sometimes it's something foundational and Earth-shatt...

1983 Rosewood-topped Reissue Passive Pro One of the great things about a brand like Wal is that a mix of two inquiring minds and a ...

Wal Basses the early years Over the last half a century some incredible bass guitars have come from these shores. From the “yeah ...

The Wal Midi Bass has always been a bit of a rare beast. So when one turned up for sale at Bass Direct in Warwick with a sumptuous shedua...

General Wal music magazine adverts from through the years... Throughout their history Electric Wood, the company behind Wal Basses (in ...

Pro Series Advertising Materials From the 1970s Featuring John Entwistle and Percy Jones In many ways Wal Basses grew out of Ian and Pete...

Photo credit: Richard Nixon The “Chris Squire” Custom Triple Neck Wal Transcript from "Bassist" magazine 1999. Roger Newell ...

Jimmy sticks his neck out The latter weeks of 2015 and the first few of 2016 have been a sad period for the music world, with so many gr...

Published obituaries in the music press for Ian Waller and Pete Stevens This post gathers together some of the obituaries for Ian and Pete...

Of all my favourite memories of 2015, one of the longest lasting will be a Saturday in September spent at the "Basschat South East Ba...

Gallery: Early and mid 1980s reissue passive Pro basses Andy Baxter, of Andy Baxter Basses in London takes some amazing photos to display...

Wal MB4 midi bass review from Guitarist Feb 1990 ELECTRIC WOOD Wal MB4 MIDI Bass As MIDI controllers grow in type and in co...

That's it really. Just an opportunity to post in one place some photos of two of the best bass builders this country has and will ever s...