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Title: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: goran on July 05, 2021, 08:46:14 AM

Check out new Stanley's epizode and interview with one and only Mica!

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: dela217 on July 05, 2021, 09:30:39 AM

Good episode!    Check out the bass starting at 27:11.     ??????

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: lbpesq on July 05, 2021, 10:25:40 AM

Love Mica’s Piet Mondrian glasses!

Bill, tgo

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: mario_farufyno on July 05, 2021, 01:58:05 PM

Loved to see a glimpse of the Mothership facilities and how the band reacted to Mr. Clarke's new bass. This experience seems to be something each new Alembician live in his first gig/rehearsal with an Alembic in hands.

When I got my Rogue first time to our rehearsal the drummer asked me why I didn't play those lines before and I said that I always did, but now he was finally hearing me...

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: jazzyvee on July 05, 2021, 02:19:13 PM

Excellent Bass Nation episode by Stanley Clarke. Good to see him dedicate a section to Alembic and get Mica to take part.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: mario_farufyno on July 05, 2021, 02:21:40 PM

The first time I heard Mica's voice, before all those years I'm in the Club.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: dannobasso on July 05, 2021, 04:03:50 PM

Great job Mica! We had our first conversation in the mid 80's when you took my order for a Spoiler 6 and all these years later you are presenting to the world! Continued success to you and all of the Wickersham family. And this year I will finally have upgraded to a Series 2 6. Only took me 38 years to get with the program! Congrats again on a great conversation with Stanley.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: David Houck on July 05, 2021, 04:09:51 PM

Loved it!  Thanks for posting the video Goran.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: rv_bass on July 05, 2021, 05:38:14 PM

Very cool!  :)

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: matbard on July 06, 2021, 12:47:42 AM

OMG first time I see Mica on a video!

Please continue doing this interesting stuff!

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: edwardofhuncote on July 06, 2021, 06:10:59 AM

Fantastic production. And Stan does the best job of explaining to a lay-person the correlation/difference of upright bass to bass guitar... just laying that foundation is so critical to understanding why these things have to work so well. Very natural in front of a camera too. That's hard. We don't think about that stuff as much.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: hieronymous on July 07, 2021, 04:41:38 PM

Finally watched the Alembic segment - fun! Never heard the bit about the band chipping in to buy him that first Alembic.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: jazzyvee on July 07, 2021, 11:10:15 PM

A good investment and also a good move by Rick to bring that bass for him. I wonder if that was the first short scale bass that alembic made and if so was it made with him in mind?

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: mica on July 07, 2021, 11:36:22 PM

It was not the first short scale bass and Stanley was not in mind - it was literally one of the basses we had finished in the shop! We took gear to all sorts of artists (still do!) to try out during soundchecks.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke new epizode with Alembic
Post by: adriaan on July 08, 2021, 01:39:55 AM

There was also a post in 2016 by Mondozer offering another version of when Stanley first laid his hands on an Alembic, in this FS thread for #72-03 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=21958.0).