Alembic Guitars Club

Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: jazzyvee on June 06, 2005, 11:59:44 PM

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: jazzyvee on June 06, 2005, 11:59:44 PM

I saw this on one of the web sites I use to get all my guitar strings from.
 
http://www.shop-sotw.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SPACEBASS_WASH&Category_Code=SIGNATURE_GUITARS&Store_Code=STRINGS (http://www.shop-sotw.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SPACEBASS_WASH&Category_Code=SIGNATURE_GUITARS&Store_Code=STRINGS)

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: the_mule on June 07, 2005, 11:55:12 AM

Edwin van Huik has one hanging in his store. I don't like it to be honest, especially when you take that pricetag into account...
 
Wilfred

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: howierd on June 07, 2005, 06:15:33 PM

That thing is a little too gaudy for my taste. I'd take my old Kent guitar over that any day.
Howierd

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: jacko on June 08, 2005, 02:38:07 AM

It's the kind of bass that suits Bootsy's persona. The bass player from Mud had a heart shaped bass in the 70's (he was made up to be a bit camp but apparently wasn't) and Gene simmons has his Bloodaxe (or whatever). I personally wouldn't want to appear on stage with one of these creations, I'm much too conservative;-)
 
graeme

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: adriaan on June 08, 2005, 03:05:11 AM

Graeme,
 
Not sure it could have been the bass player for Mud - one of the guitarists dressed funny, but the bass guy looked square (not counting the flares everyone was wearing).
 
Most of the guys from Slade dressed up, and the other guitarist - not Noddy - usually had funny shaped guitars. I seem to remember the bass player wielding a Gibson EB-3 or Hayman or Shergold - or something similarly uncomfortable.
 
Thanks for the flashback!
 
(Message edited by adriaan on June 08, 2005)

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: jacko on June 08, 2005, 03:11:05 AM

Adriaan.
You're probably right - it was quite some time ago.  
When I saw Slade, Dave Hill had a Gun shaped guitar that IIRC shot sparks from the barrel(head).
 
graeme

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: keith_h on June 08, 2005, 04:51:58 AM

Speaking of unique guitars there's Rick Nielsen's double neck Hamer with the body being a caricature of Rick.
 
http://www.cheaptrick.com/photos.html (http://www.cheaptrick.com/photos.html)
 
Keith

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: jacko on June 08, 2005, 04:57:00 AM

Nice site keith. If you page to the bottom thwere's a picture of  a fan holding Ricks 5 necked guitar - bizarre
 
graeme

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: trekster on June 08, 2005, 05:18:21 AM

Beleive it or not, but the first weird-shaped guitar I ever saw was the star/starburst guitar the Bjorn from ABBA used to play:
 
http://66.235.213.139/~abbagall/abba26/waterloo_EG.jpg (http://66.235.213.139/~abbagall/abba26/waterloo_EG.jpg)
 
Definitely something you could take someone's eye out with!
 
--T

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: jacko on June 08, 2005, 05:20:36 AM

You wouldn't want to fall off those boots clutching that thing ;-(
 
graeme

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: lbpesq on June 08, 2005, 07:18:55 AM

Since we're looking at weird guitars, check out this Picasso Guitar made by famed Canadian luthier Linda Manzer for Pat Matheny
 
http://www.manzer.com/more.tmpl?cmd=search&db=lmodels.db&var2=lmodels.db&var3=Custom%20Design&wfskudata=2931-15 (http://www.manzer.com/more.tmpl?cmd=search&db=lmodels.db&var2=lmodels.db&var3=Custom%20Design&wfskudata=2931-15)
 
Bill, tgo

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: alanbass1 on June 08, 2005, 07:41:21 AM

This site has got a record cover with a photo of Dave Hill's 'Super Yob' guitar and Gary Shepherd's (he of Glitter Band fame) 'Star Guitar'.  
 
http://www.glitterband.fsnet.co.uk/newcd.html (http://www.glitterband.fsnet.co.uk/newcd.html)
 
I believe John Birch made both of these.  Who said British guitar design never quite cut it!!!!!

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: bigredbass on June 08, 2005, 09:08:09 AM

This is like Bo Diddley's guitar, or Van Halen's Stripe guitars:  It's their signature, if you will.  It would sure look silly on me, but it really is Bootsy.  The real hoot is the 'Funny Basses' section over on BunnyBass, the ultimate
'What Were THey Thinking?' collection.
 
J o e y

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: richbass939 on June 08, 2005, 10:42:49 AM

Speaking of guitarists dressing funny, when I saw Parliament/Funkadelic one of them wore a big diaper and a black leather jacket (which he took off later in the show, the jacket that is, not the diaper.)  The other one wore a white wedding dress with a lace veil.  It had spaghetti straps that kept falling off his shoulders.  George Clinton, who always looks wild, had a robe made out of what looked like a bedsheet with Disney's Aladdin cartoon characters on it.  That was a spectacle you don't see at every show.
Rich

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: adriaan on June 08, 2005, 12:01:19 PM

Something about funk makes some musicians make unwise dress selections - Joe Bowie of Defunkt in tight spandex outfit being another unfortunate fashion victim ...

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: lbpesq on June 08, 2005, 04:02:40 PM

The diaper look used to be a regular at the Grateful Dead's New Year's shows back in the day.  (Luckily if was never Jerry in the diaper.  I would have had nightmares, no doubt).
 
Bill, tgo

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: valvil on June 08, 2005, 04:25:05 PM

I think the one in the wedding dress was Catfish, Bootsy's brother.
 
Valentino

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: Manfred on June 09, 2005, 01:11:14 AM

The one in the wedding dress is Andre Foxxe Williams, the diaper guy is Garry Shider.
 
Manfred

Title: What about this for a custom bass
Post by: jacko on June 09, 2005, 01:16:13 AM

The BBC have been running a series called 'Soul Deep' documenting the history of Black American music. This week was the rise of funk from James Browns early years through Sly, Bootsie, Parliament to hip hop. It's quite funny now seeing what everyone was wearing in the 70's - George Clinton dancing in the streets in a cape and chains on 6 inch platforms must have been quite a sight. There was alot of interview footage with Bootsie and he came across as a very articulate and passionate musician - just as gaudy as his signature bass though ;-)
 
graeme