Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Community => Gatherings => Topic started by: mica on May 07, 2017, 11:41:03 AM
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I think Harry started this tradition after the first Gathering where we collect the pictures in a new thread
To start us off, I'll post a few images from my phone, and tomorrow at the office I'll get the ones off my camera and add more.
What a fun day! Great people getting together and visiting and jamming.
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The weather predictions were all over the place. A week ago it was predicted to be much cooler than usual. On Thursday we were worried about it raining. Then on Friday they were saying partly cloudy, and still cool.
Finally when Saturday came around we had no rain, it was a little cooler than average, and we had times of nice sunshine. Actually, couldn't have asked for a nicer day!
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Will showed my son Erik how to run the lights and smoke machine at the start.
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The last of the phone shots is from the first jam.
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Looks like you had a good group of alembicians there this year Mica. I look forward to more pictures and if anyone has any video clips of some of the instruments being played that would be great to hear.
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Pictures!
So Erik has a new career in running lights now.
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Erik also brought his Ukelele, on which he tells me he is taking lessons. Hmmmmm, can an Alembic uke be far behind?
Bill, tgo
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I'm guessing Erik will be making a shop night uke himself as soon as he has a few more lessons down and knows what he wants for neck dimensions.
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Looks like fun!
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Noticed Erik in the Instagram picture . . . he is growing up - last I saw him was at the Chicago Gathering . . . . has it been THAT long?
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Looks like you all had a great day for the event. :) I'm also quite tickled to see my new Custom Fretless made it to an official Gathering. :D
Harry was kind enough to email me a couple pictures of it from there, and I'm still coming to grips with how perfectly it fits in with the rest of the family. It's as if they read my mind on the build, down to the smallest details. 8)
I've been working on a short essay for the Showcase Thread that will explain/acknowledge a couple things about it...
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Hey Gregory, thanks for letting Mica bring your new bass to the gathering. It was nice to get to see it in its pristine glory. I particularly liked the contrasting wood on the face of the headstock and thought the design choices all added up to a subdued yet individualistic look. May it bring you many years of sonic bliss.
Hanging out in the back picking up some mojo from the assembled clan...
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While we wait for Mica's "official" pictures taken with an actual camera here are a few more phone pics my wife took.
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The bass orchestra grows...
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What is that up in the sky?
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Pre group-photo jam.
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Post group-photo jam.
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Great pictures, Stephen; thanks!
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Hi fellow Alembicians! For some reason I did not get the group email notification of this year's event. To be fair, I don't check in on the Discussion site too often, or I would have seen the info for this year's gathering regardless of email if I had :-[ In any case I wouldn't have been able to make it on May 6th (not that the success of the event depends on my presence ;D In fact, the last gathering I made it to, I completely embarrassed myself by--in the greatest tradition of our friends the Grateful Dead--totally sucking when I got up to play "live." Guess my mojo just wasn't there that day, as it sometimes wasn't for the Dead). From the photos it looks like the usual good time was had by all, and the Canyon location is certainly a great place to gather. Living as I do in Northern California, I'm fortunate enough to be able to make a "day trip" to each of the annual gatherings, when the date is available to me in any given year.
Take care, and hope to be at next year's gathering.
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Hello everyone . I had a great time . My thanks to Mica and Alembic and our host Will and Bill for all the hard work and PA . I will post some photos next week when I have a chance to catch up .
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I didn't take too many pictures this year.
I got one partial shot of the forest of Alembic instruments in the side room.
Erik and Tom were playing a chess game out back.
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Couple of jam shots.
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Some of the group shots
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A few more toward the end of the day.
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Thanks, Mica. This year's gathering may have been a little slow reporting to all the rest-of-us (remember Seinfeld's "Festivus for the rest-of-us"?) but I still drooled over that stage set-up, and all those amazing basses! Once again, thanks!!
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Agreed, that forest of beauties is lust worthy. Apologies to Ian Anderson as I go 'living in the past' - but at the Chicago Gathering there were a lot more basses on stage then those skinny stringed things*. ;)
Those Spider's! The top wood looks like they are book-matched to each other. 8)
* big love to the guitar players
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One never knows what might happen at an Alembic gathering. Last year, I was the only guitarist in attendance! Go figure.
Bill, tgo
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Thanks for the pictures, Mica!
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Test shot from the gathering. I haven't posted in ages and I want to make sure I'm correctly ly re-sizing my original shots. This is Nick's beautiful old Series II.
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Test shot looks good to me! Bummed that I couldn't stay but at least I made it for the beginning, in fact, it was the first time that I was the first one there - I even beat Will & Mica! The only instrument I got to play was Erik's ukulele, but I'm glad the doubleneck could make it to Northern California X
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Pics Part I.
Had a fabulous time at the gathering. Great people, great basses, and great playing. Special thanks to Mica and her family and our host, Will.
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Pics Part II
Gary came down from Washington state with the only Classico 6-string in existence. The icing on the cake? Two beautiful Spyder basses; a 4-string and an 8-string.
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Great pics, Sam! Thanks!
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Hey, Dave! Thanks!
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+1 on the great pics - I can almost imagine that I was there for the whole day!
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Beautiful pics Sam. Gorgeous subjects and framed perfectly.
Oohh those Spiders!
On the 8, are both strings anchored in the same slot?
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Harry, will look forward to seeing you next year.
Pauldo, Thanks. Some of the shots are slightly (wink, wink) cropped. As far as the exact design of the 8-string's tailpiece and string anchor, I'm sure Mica and Gary can answer that question in detail.
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Paul; go back up to Sam's body closeup of the 8 string and zoom in on the tailpiece; you'll see that yes, both strings are anchored in one slot.
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Love that scroll on the Hyak bass. :D
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Why is it called a Hyak bass?
Bill and Henry, nice guitars!
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Rob, Hyak was the company that made it. They lasted about a year in Belleview, Washington, and produced about 100 basses and guitars in the late '70s. I believe one of the founders was a former Alembic employee. They could be run mono or stereo, and came with a power supply and 5-pin cable, similar to Alembic. And thanks for the compliment. Henry's old Series II sure is sweet!
Bill, tgo
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Bill, thanks for the explanation, Hyaks are neat looking basses. Sam, I add to the compliments on your photos, very nice!
Rob
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Paul; go back up to Sam's body closeup of the 8 string and zoom in on the tailpiece; you'll see that yes, both strings are anchored in one slot.
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Doesn't that create a condition that is subject to a random positioning/ settling of the strings with potential binding that could lead to premature failure? Or at least a tuning hassle until they find their happy place nestled together?
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Hey, rv!
Thanks for the kind words about the photos.
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nice photo's Sam. It was great hanging with you and all the folks at the gathering!
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Nice photos Mica,Sam and everyone. I would of loved to have heard Nate playing that 8 string !! next time for sure ,and I will bring the Alembic rig-o-doom !
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I was rummaging through this thread this morning and saw the photos from oddmetersam. (Samuel Sheats). He hasn’t posted here since 2018. Anyone in contact with him? He sure was an interesting guy to chat with.
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Sam was at the Northern Cal gathering last August. He took some pics, but I don’t remember him publishing them here.
Bill, tgo