Great old and somewhat faded photo of Jack with 001

Great photo, thanks for posting. I saw Electric Hot Tuna a couple of months ago (their last tour as an electric configuration) thanks to a generous club member.  They were fantastic, and Jack's eyes and general facial expression was exactly the same as in your photo (our seats were very close)...great stuff!

Great photo !
I experienced Jack play that bass several times from less then 8 feet away .I loved that sound !

Great picture. I wonder if anyone remembers how the controls worked on this early iteration of #72-001?

Great picture.

All the better pictures I have of 72-001 are FB rips from this post several years ago. I kinda' hate to repost them here, but here's a link to the original source.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2495912083756177&id=100024018739028

Very cool pix!  But the guy posting them is not well informed;  72-02 wasn't Mission control.  It was a guitar for Weir; last I heard, it was languishing in a Hard Rock Café (Google has no idea what I'm talking about on that one, so no pic.  There was one of it at HRC here at some point; IIRC, it was Tele-shaped.)  The 2nd bass was 72-04, for Jim Young.  I haven't been able to nail down how many left the Mothership in '72, but it might have been about 25 (that one being the one Doug modified into Wolf).
My bookmark to Flip's chart is dead (when I need it to be Dead), so I don't know how many were made before Phil's, but its number starts 74, so I'd guess a hundred or two (Mica?  Could we trouble you for that info?  And for Mission Control's S/N?  Thanks!)

Peter

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on March 13, 2026, 12:08:45 PM

All the better pictures I have of 72-001 are FB rips from this post several years ago. I kinda' hate to repost them here, but here's a link to the original source.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2495912083756177&id=100024018739028

Many Thanks Ed 

I was very happy they showed the front, back and fretboard inlays in great detail!

Photo, Tuna 1973, ABC/Disney Archive

Vid, Live at 46th Street Rock Palace

Interestingly enough, the number on Phil's Omega-cut bass was/is 74-00008. There's picture of it here somewhere. *post #129 here https://club.alembicguitars.com/index.php?topic=8076.120
One would have to assume plenty of other work got done between those two instruments, so go figure. I believe his Big Brown Starfire received a number as well, and for some reason, 7 sticks. (without any year designation) Maybe that's why the #8 got assigned to Phil's? No idea.

So I don't really know what bass they are referring to here... I took it to mean that Phil got the next bass, rather than the next serial number. Could he possibly have tried (test-piloted) the Jim Young bass you mentioned? Again, no idea. Still working on the Time Machine. I'm planning to get me a job there sweeping the shop.

*found it