Michael Peter Balzary, known professionally as Flea, is an American musician, singer and actor. He is best known as the bassist and founding member of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea briefly appeared as the bassist for such bands as What Is This?, Fear, and Jane’s Addiction
Flea has used a wide variety of basses over his career with some varying exclusivity, such as Music Man, Modulus, his own brand Fleabass, and Fender Jazz and Precisions.
Currently, his main stage bass is a Custom Shop Fender Jazz Bass, modified with a Modulus Lane Poor pickup.
According to the Flea Bass Rig video he used the following over the years in order of appearance.
- Musicman Cutlass 1 (No longer in production)
- Fender Precision (In black seen live in 1989)
- Kramer Spector NS2-JA (Seen in “Fight Like A Brave”)
- Spector NS-2 (Seen in “Taste The Pain)
- Delray Tiesco NB-4 (Used in video for “Higher Ground”, not used to record)
- Wal Mk 2 (Seen in “Suck My Kiss”)
- Musicman Stingray 4 (Seen in “Aeroplane”)
- Musicman Stingray 5 string (Seen in “Under The Bridge”)
- Alembic Epic (Seen in “My Friends”)
- Modulus signature basses (see below)
- 1961 Fender Jazz (Pre CBS)
- FleaBass (Fleas’ own brand of bass)
just...BASS! 