A lot of people know Randy Jackson as an American Idol judge, but they don't know Randy Jackson the musician. Randy Jackson is a Grammy Award winning rock bassist, singer, record producer and Emmy Award-nominated television and radio personality, now best known as a judge on American Idol.

Randy is one hell of a bass player - let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Randy's bass rig arsenal.

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Bass Guitars
- Mike Lull MV4 and MV5 4- and 5-strings
- ’61 Fender Precision

- ’70s Fender Jazz

- Modulus 5-string
- prototype Yamaha hollowbody
- Gibson Ripper
- Fritz Brothers F.B. Bass
- custom First Act Delia semi-hollowbody
- Kay hollowbody
- French upright bass



Synth Basses
- Minimoog

- Moog Source
- Moog Little Phatty

Amps and Cabinets
- Genz Benz GBE 1200 head

- Genz Benz NeoX-212T cabinets

- Ampeg B-15
- Line 6 LowDown Studio 110

Effects and More
- Line 6 Bass Floor POD

- Bass PODxt Pro

- Demeter VTD-2B Tube Direct Box


Bass Strings
- Dean Markley Randy Jackson Alchemy medium-lights strings gauges(.045, .065, .085, .105, .130)

- Dean Markley medium flatwounds
- Rotosound Tru Bass 88 black nylon flatwounds

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Dave  - Journey   |2008-11-15 14:36:59 Wasnt he the bassist for journey at one time? Reply 0   0

chase eversole  - cool   |2008-07-01 16:55:28 I did not know randy was a bass player. I thought he was just sum random dude on American idol, but that makes him 10 times cooler in my book!! Go randy! Gr8 article Reply 1   1

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