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Title: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: mario_farufyno on July 10, 2021, 07:57:29 AM

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: mario_farufyno on July 10, 2021, 08:03:06 AM

I just can't imagine how fun was in the backstage...

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: David Houck on July 10, 2021, 03:15:36 PM

Watching now.  Track #4 with Karen Briggs and Bela Fleck was wonderful.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: jazzyvee on August 13, 2021, 06:26:54 PM

Just spotted this video on Youtube of the Clarke Duke Project with his Alembic with Bigsby.
Would this be his bass with graphite neck?

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 15, 2021, 12:14:25 PM

I don't recognize it from anywhere else, but if I was guessing I would say that's it. I bet Mica would know and Susan would remember for sure. There was a small-body graphite neck Series with a Bigsby in the Entwistle collection too. We saw it here a couple years ago, but I don't think this could be it. (I also seem to recall that one was medium-scale) Man, he's wailin' on that thing!

Stanley Clarke and John McVie had the first two Alembics with graphite necks made in collaboration with Geoff Gould, according to the history page. I don't know which one was first, numerically, or if they are even close. Just, 1976. Lotta' notable custom stuff made in '76.

When it was for sale, I remember noting John's graphite-necked Series had what looked like walnut wings and his name in pearl inlaid in the end of the fingerboard. Also had a Master Volume. (I think he must have preferred that option; all his basses have it)

Here was John's.

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: keith_h on August 16, 2021, 08:02:30 AM

I think that is the same bass as on his Stanley Clarke Band album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Clarke_Band#/media/File:The_Stanley_Clarke_Band.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Clarke_Band#/media/File:The_Stanley_Clarke_Band.jpg)

Title: Re: Stanley Clarke sharing the MI show
Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 16, 2021, 12:00:50 PM

Sure looks like the same one Keith. Well, this makes me wonder something else. Stanley's preference for small-ish necks is well-known. That bass certainly looks like it has that feature. So, what was the profile of those first Geoff Gould graphite necks? I wouldn't think they had started out small, at least not Stanley-spec.