Aria Pro II PE-200 bass fooling on "In my defence" - Freddie Mercury

The song is "In my defence" - Freddie Mercury.
The gear used is Aria Pro II PE 200 bass guitar made in Japan '77 and hand-made one tube bass preamp.

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• Aria
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• II
• PE
• 200
• Gibson
• Ripper
• tube
• preamp
• Freddie
• Mercury

[sunnyjim98]

aria pro ii is such a good make!!!

[gicacontrabass]

@sunnyjim98 Indeed ;) Recently I have bought another old Aria Pro II bass, a Precise Bass '77, ash body, maple neck, Matsumoku written on the back plate :P I'll try to post something recorded with it, after it gets a good setup.

[bmiranda2645]

Hello there. That is a really nice bass. I did not know any company other than Gibson or Epiphone made a bass like that!

I have a black 2009 Gibson Grabber. It looks like the Aria Pro bass with maple neck and rosewood fretboard, but mine has a maple body and is very heavy.

Your Aria sounds very much like a 1970's Gibson the Ripper.

[gicacontrabass]

Thanks very much for information. And your Grabber sounds very nice ;) I should play someday more basses like these...

[Santi66]

Aria made good instruments in Japan.

Your tube pream sounds good also, and good cover.

Cheers.

[gicacontrabass]

Thanks !

Indeed, good old instruments made by Aria, I just found this rare one in a SH store for 250 euro ;) Linden body (a kind of basswood), maple neck, rosewood fretboard. I still wonder if it really sounds like a Gibson Ripper or not (the Ripper was made of mapple or ebony) :P

[bmiranda2645]

@Dicksaiter Thank you. I never knew about those copies and it is interesting to know about Ibanez/Japanese copies of guitars made during the "lawsuit" era when they looked exactly the same.

[Dicksaiter]

@bmiranda2645 Thats a Bass in the form of A Gibson Ripper/Grabber Labeled as Maya. Looks like here in the video. Maya as far i know a budget line of Ibanez. All I know is they produced guitars and basses in Japan from the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s. They also had a cheaper line called El Maya that made Fender clones.

In the middle of this Picture of my ol band

[bmiranda2645]

@Dicksaiter what's a Maya Ripper? I could not find any more information about that brand on the internet. I heard of Crestline Grabber bass copies and Epiphone Ripper ones too.

[Dicksaiter]

@bmiranda2645 Has a Maya Ripper too. As Far I remeber Maya is a budget-line of late 70's Ibanet

[hanzabass]

This bass sounds really much better than I expected somehow. Nice!