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Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: jazzyvee on February 03, 2007, 02:30:11 PM

I found this picture in my collection and wondered if it is an alembic bass?
 
It looks very sharp.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/35894.jpg)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: pierreyves on February 04, 2007, 02:07:00 AM

I don't think that is an Alembic...this picture is best for identification:(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/35902.jpg)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: keavin on February 04, 2007, 06:38:05 AM

it's the same as this one she's playing here but it sure hell aint no lembic!http://youtube.com/watch?v=V648NRbG7P8 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=V648NRbG7P8)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: dela217 on February 04, 2007, 09:55:07 AM

Excalibur perhaps?  Excalibur instruments were made by what was left of Stars Guitars I think.

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: pierreyves on February 04, 2007, 01:46:35 PM

yeah, without glasses !! I know this pinkie who play very well bass. But it's not the same bass, not the same disposition of and pickup, not the same disposition of inlays...the inlays of this bass are on the top, just under the 1rst string (E)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: room037 on February 04, 2007, 02:28:28 PM

I think, the bass is Tune.
(Bridge is Tune tremoro bar system.)  
But it is not regular products.
I will be looking for the brochures of Tune in my archives.
 
Eiji

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: pierreyves on February 04, 2007, 03:17:46 PM

room037, I think you are the winner !!
But I never seen or listen to this bass, from Japan.
I don't know his sound, certainly very (?) nice... on the website, no prices are available:
http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~tune/tune/framepage,tune,bass,catalog.htm (http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~tune/tune/framepage%2Ctune%2Cbass%2Ccatalog.htm)
I was looking on the website, I don't find exactly the same model, with 3 keys up and 1 down.
I think maybe that was a picture in a Japanese tour with George Duke and Stanley take this bass in hand just for picture. He is smiling too much ;o))
 
(Message edited by pierreyves on February 04, 2007)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: room037 on February 04, 2007, 07:48:08 PM

Hi pierreyves,
 
Yes, I have never seen such 3 to 1 head on Tune.
Maybe the bass was special made or preproduction model.
 
Eiji

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: markman on February 09, 2007, 10:26:04 AM

This is a Hoyer T-Stax bass, built in germany in the 80s. They made beautiful instruments but bad marketing. Unfortunately they went bankrupt and were sold.
These basses were built with different pickup configurations. One of them was with Alembic copies made by Kent Armstrong.  
 
Markus

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: room037 on February 09, 2007, 03:18:40 PM

Yeah Markus!
I found this pict.
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/36044.jpg)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: inthelows on February 09, 2007, 03:54:33 PM

Strange as it is, looks playable enough!
Wonder if SC was just taking it for a test ride.
Lord knows how  many basses have been tossed his way hoping for an endorsement opportunity.
Nice detective work all!
NLP

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: jazzyvee on February 09, 2007, 11:34:06 PM

Nice looking bass too.
I wouldn't mind test driving it myself.
Gonna do some searching.
Thanks for the responses to the thread.
Jazzyvee

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: lbpesq on February 10, 2007, 09:04:55 AM

The lines on this remind my of another unusual bass, the Daion Power Mark XX.  I believe Olie owns a couple of these.  (I own a couple of the guitar version).
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/36075.jpg)
 
Bill, tgo

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: tkotmk42 on May 13, 2007, 07:47:22 PM

To answer OP's question:
 
That is definately TUNE bass.  Not the cheap crap you find in Sam's Ash now days....
 
Tune used to be one of those Japa-Alembic builders.  They used to make basses using woods supplied by Alembic.....
 
Tune was very good bass...I miss them.
 
Takeo

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: olifeahs on May 19, 2009, 05:20:32 AM

This is the HOYER T-Staxx Bass made in Germany about 1985, you can see the 0-Fret and the very small neck (the fastest neck ever built. I play one of these and have to say they are very Alembiclike)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: georgie_boy on May 19, 2009, 05:51:55 AM

Yep.....it's a TUNE bass!
They are /were superb.
When I lived in Paris, the bass mags reviewed them, with the quote
nearly Alembic

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: adriaan on May 19, 2009, 07:13:09 AM

I found a picture of a (http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/65333.jpg) which is either a copy of that Hoyer, or the original for that Hoyer. Unfortunately the picture doesn't show the peghead.

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: room037 on May 19, 2009, 07:43:56 AM

Hi George,
 
It's not Tune bass, it's Hoyer.
Tune basses has No 0-fret, and 3:1 tuner layout.
Please see the 6th post. I thought it like you.
I own 2 Tune basses, but Alembic basses are best for me.
 
Hi Adriaan,
The bass that you show is Tune bass made by Alembic !
Maybe you are confused Alembic made Tune basses !?.
Yes, They did the wood work for Tune.
I will check my archives, I remember the picture TNX series in Alembic factory.
The bass is up on  Yahoo Japan Auction. (http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k111259352)
 
Eiji
 
(Message edited by room037 on May 19, 2009)

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: adriaan on May 19, 2009, 08:27:48 AM

Eiji - I'm not confused, I'm just posting what I find. 8-p
 
The Google translation of that Japanese Yahoo auction (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpage9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp%2Fjp%2Fauction%2Fk111259352&sl=ja&tl=en&history_state0=ja%7Cen%7C target=_blank) says:
 
TUNE (design, electrical) and ARENBIKKU (materials, wood) no longer sell the stock if the earthquake damage is a rare gem that was made in collaboration ...

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: georgie_boy on May 20, 2009, 02:44:03 AM

Sorry if I got that wrong guys!
It just looked so like the Tune basses.

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: svlilioukalani on May 21, 2009, 05:26:43 AM

As an owner of a Tune King bass, I can tell ya; it's no Tune Bass. Which is one dam fine bass. And, if your interested in one, I'll sell ya my 5 stringer for $1000.

Title: What bass is Stanley Using here?
Post by: jazzyvee on May 02, 2012, 05:31:10 AM

Bump
here is a clip from Stanley Clarke band at rehearsal
If i'm not mistaken this looks like a fender jazz bass or something close in the hands of the master.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efxB7fog1Y&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efxB7fog1Y&feature=related)
 
 
Found another which seems a close up of the same bass.

Jazzyvee
 
 
 
 
(Message edited by jazzyvee on May 02, 2012)