Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Songdog on October 14, 2025, 05:09:57 PM
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This is probably old news to a lot of you here, but I found it fascinating.
The Resurrection Of Osiris (https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-16/the-resurrection-of-osiris/)
The Improbable Story Of Phil Lesh’s Legendary “Mission Control” Bass
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Thanks for posting, i've just finished reading it. I better hit the sack now as it's 02:35am here and I need to be up by 7:30.
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Many errors.
Peter
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I kept getting thrown out. Gave up after three tries.
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Lotta' ads, but I got through it. Yeah, that's a lot to process. What's the saying- "the biggest enemy of truth isn't the lie, it's the myth". Hell, I wouldn't know one from the other. That it is a restored, playable instrument again is all I really care about. I also think it's pretty cool that it actually gets played.
I hadn't heard about the discovery of the original case and other original parts inside it... that was new. And I liked the pictures. There's really not much else about that bass I want to know that I could learn unless I got to play it. Is that going to happen? Nah! Jason ain't loanin' Mission Control out to some no-count weekend warrior bass player in a newgrass band. Fun to dream about though.
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Many errors.
Peter
I (and perhaps others) would be very interested in any clarifications, corrections, and references to more accurate accounts you could provide. As you recently pointed out in a very different context, history requires processing newly discovered facts in order to get closer to the truth.
Phil Lesh and Jack Casady were my biggest early inspirations for learning to play bass, and their history with Alembic is the main reason I now own one*. That's why the story of Osiris fascinates me and why I'd like to understand it better.
* And my experience with my first one is the reason I would like to own another.
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Many errors.
Peter
I (and perhaps others) would be very interested in any clarifications, corrections, and references to more accurate accounts you could provide. As you recently pointed out in a very different context, history requires processing newly discovered facts in order to get closer to the truth.
Phil Lesh and Jack Casady were my biggest early inspirations for learning to play bass, and their history with Alembic is the main reason I now own one*. That's why the story of Osiris fascinates me and why I'd like to understand it better.
* And my experience with my first one is the reason I would like to own another.
Medical appointments today (as most days anymore; me, Her, or both......), so don't have time to reread the part I did read before giving up on the writer, but right off the top of my head, AXYs are not humbuckers; and as far as I have ever learned, there are not 2 quad pick-ups, there's one - the thing the pic IDs as a 2nd quad and actually, from size and position, looks like a MIDI p/up, is, I assume, the HumX.
If I remember, I'll try to go back over it tonight and be more detailed.
Peter
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Some good catches there.
We all know that Alembic hum canceling pickups are not humbuckers, and the writer perhaps wasn't aware of the distinction (or didn't want to get off topic by explaining). But someone will get in an argument and insist "no, they were humbuckers, it says so right here in Bass Magazine."
The picture that mislabels the hum canceler as a quad pickup looks like it might be from somewhere else and a fairly recent edit. The writer may have simply accepted it as authoritative, or may not have read it for details like that. I didn't notice it until it was pointed out.
I imagine that, besides incorporating newly uncovered facts into history, historians consider it important to make sure that the old, well-established facts are not lost or corrupted.