Very Good condition, 7/10, red sunburst, Made in |
Chicago, tiger striped celluloid in the lipstick |
pickup frame, the neck heel and the electronics |
cover, big and round neck, arched back, original |
waffle back tuners, all original parts including |
the white volume/tone knobs, 3-way switch, the |
bridge is all the way down and the action is still |
high but very playable if you like higher action, |
including brown softshell case with red lining, |
from online This model became known as the |
Howlin Wolf bass because it was used by the Wolf |
s bassist, Andrew Blueblood McMahon. You can hear |
it on early recordings and see it on some of the |
surviving footage of Howlin Wolf shows. While |
there is regrettably not a lot of footage of |
Howlin Wolf performances, it s well worth looking |
for. On later footage, McMahon uses a solidbody |
Gibson EB bass. More recently, the K162 has been |
used by Sheryl Crow s bassist.The K162 features a |
hollow, closed body with a flat top with twin |
longitudinal tone bars, no sound post, and an |
arched laminated back. It has the distinctive |
hollowbody resonance but with feedback resistance. |