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Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: carlos shilinsky (shilinsky) on February 28, 2003, 04:23:26 PM

Im wondering if someone can recomend me some cds where the bass players uses an alembic,i got some stanley and level 42, so if some one has another i would apreciatte.
 
   Thanks

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Daniel Tracey (dannobasso) on March 01, 2003, 06:05:49 AM

I heard the the latest Chili Peppers was done with an Elan, Nazareth Live, Alan Holdsworth with Jimmy Johnson, Dixie Dregs with Andy West, Planet X's latest with Jimmy Johnson as a guest player, ask some Dead Heads about which albums Lesh used his Alembics, Metallica Live before Jason Newstead went to bolt ons, just to name a few.

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: James L. Martin (malthumb) on March 01, 2003, 08:55:32 AM

Here's a link to the thread from the first time this question was asked.  There's some good stuff listed here.
 
http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/2451.html (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=2594)

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Brian Ceasar (bbe1020) on March 01, 2003, 10:52:51 AM

Oops...I put my post on the wrong thread!(archives november 2002)  Anyhow, visit www.stanleyclarke.com/interactive (http://www.stanleyclarke.com/interactive)

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: David Burgess (dnburgess) on March 02, 2003, 03:47:05 PM

Check out the references on eBay for the sale of Dee Murray's bass - reads like a greatest hits of the 70's & 80's

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Paul Lindemans (palembic) on March 03, 2003, 01:18:39 AM

Brian (if you use two threads, me too!) ;-),  
 
in theory ? is about = $. Assumed as a LOCAL puchase.  
Those guys denying the Alembic sound are PARTIALLY right. I mean ex post = after the facts. In the time Stanley Clarke started it's playing the sound he wanted could only be achieved with an Alembic, guitar + filters. I agree that that sound can now be imitated fairly easy with a bass combined with the appropriate filters. However, it's difficult to get the Alembic sound if you keep the amp and filters as given. I mean: plug an Alembic in and tweak around with the knobs ON YOUR GUITAR and after that plug in the Suyawacko XL5 (or whatever) and start tweaking on that guitar.  
You will never have the same sound.  
And certainly NOT compared with a SI or SII.  
 
Paul  
 
BTW: I saw SC only two times on TV-registered performances. I never saw him playing an Alembic but although ...he sounded as SC.  
 
PS: thanks for the web-info.  
Hey all Alembicians, brother and sisters unite agianst Alembic denial (LOL)

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Joey Wilson (bigredbass) on March 03, 2003, 11:03:44 AM

Of course, the quick slice of Alembic tone:
 
John McVie, in Fleetwood's The Chain; towards the end of the tune where the other instruments drop out and he begins the repeating figure on out through the coda of the song. A Fleetwood classic by a long time Alembic user.
 
Joey Wilson

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Charles David Tichenor (alembic76407) on March 04, 2003, 11:10:17 AM

let's not leave out Steven Jay (Weird Al's) bass player, he has played Alembic basses for years

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Jonathan Johnstone (stoney) on March 05, 2003, 05:01:32 AM

Pick up The Who's Quadrophenia.  John uses both 4 and 8-string Alembics throughout the album.

Title: The Alembic Sound
Post by: Gerald E. Greene (flash) on March 06, 2003, 07:41:21 PM

Hey ya'll  check out BET. there's a Stanley Clarke Scholorship concert on there that is out of this world :o   There are a bunch of our bass brothers with him that's worth checking out... Man it's bad!!!
he's using his new tenor bass too, the one on the front cover of bass player mag....talk about great sound!!!
 
peace
 
Flash