Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Introductions => Topic started by: slicknickhaas on December 23, 2009, 10:28:14 AM
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Hello all! This is a little late but I've only owned my first Alembic for 3 days now so here we go, My search for the sound started at 14 for me. I was watching the Grateful Dead movie and when they started showing Phil?s bass and the sound! Holly $?!# What a beautiful sound! I had just bout my first bass a squire p bass at that time but one day while hitting junk shops my 2nd bass found me. A Conrad H-2 hollow body sun burst bass! It?s a Japanese Guild Star fire copy! Little did I know were that bass was taking me. By 16, I was playing with guys at cafes and bars! At that point I had 6 basses most just cheap stuff but still I loved plugging in each one and hearing how different they were, Then on my 17th b-day I was given a gold Epiphone Jack Casady bass and WOW! By this point my little squire amp couldn't cut it but life had a big surprise waiting around the corner. I went to a small school out in the country and one day while helping clean up a storage space out of the dust and darkness came the light, in the form of a 1968 fender bassman 100 with the 2-10 2-15 cab! I had to bring a bass with me the next day and see it still worked and it only took one pluck to know, I had to have this amp! Within 3 days of conducting sonic experiments at school led the principle to let me and I quote, "barrow it for an extremely long time" since it was school property he couldn't tell me I could have it but its still here 5 years later! But it wasn't till the dead's last show this May that I really found out about Alembic. The show was The Doobie brothers, The Allman Brothers, then The Dead. But when I saw the bass that the doobs bassist was playing. "Hey, that kinda looks like Phil?s bass" then it all began! I started searching for info and low and behold it led me here to Alembic! 7 months later and a lot of help from the greatest father in the world I now own a beautiful 2006 Stanly Clarke with a 5a maple quilt top and side leds! It?s the most beautiful looking, and sounding bass I have ever been blessed with. I?m 21 now and the collection has grown to 32 stringed instruments 22 basses 8 guitars a mandolin, and a sitar! I still use the bassmand but now as far as gear, alembic f2-b into a mesa boogie 400+ witch flows beautifully thru a David Eden 4 by 10 and 1 by 18. well the search for the sound will never end! Phil, and Jack were just the start, now I'm trying to pull of the Entwisle sound. I have gottin were I am by just playing around no lessons, no teaching just the one simple fact, How do they make that sound! I must know! I will not settle for being a bass player, but to be a bass guitarist like the greats! thats what I work till my fingers bleed for.No Who tune will be out of range of mastery! the fires lit, the irons hot, its time to Boogie!
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(Message edited by mica on December 23, 2009)
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Welcome to the club, Nick.
That's a great music room you got going there, and a great bunch of instruments as well! (Nice shirt too ) It sounds like you're having fun, Keep it up.
Mike
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Nice bunch of instruments and amps. Great music room and dig that shirt. Like to see those instruments hanging from the ceiling . Di I detect a Les Paul bass , maybe a Thunderbird and a flying V . Enjoy them , all the bass Norm
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Nick - Love the music room it is envious and the SC puts everything over the top!!!
Welcome aboard!
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Dude, with that B3 and Alembic, everything else is icing on that cake.
You have lots of wonderful things.
Someday, I'll have a B3 too. (A good one is hard to find...)
(Message edited by the_jester on December 23, 2009)
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Welcome to the fold, Nick! Nice setup and gorgeous bass.
-Sam
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Welcome to the club Nick. Nice bass and very nice decor too.
Graeme
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A Hammond at home!
You're lucky that I live faraway. If I were your neighbour you would ask for a restriction order to get me out of your room!
Congratulations, you've made an incredible soundroom.
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A Hammond B3 and a Signature Deluxe!
Thank you for the photos
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Thanks all on the great comments,
as much as I would love to let it go on the organ
isn't a B3 or a Hammond. its a Lowery theater organ
and sadly it dosn't sound much like a Hammond but the early Vox sound is very strong, and good eye on the basses, theres 4 epiphones hanging in there.a Les Paul, Thunder bird, Flying V, and a Vinnie!above the organ is from right to left,
2 Les Paul guitars, a Gibson knock off, Randall Aim's EB-3, 67 Gibson EB-O SG, 76 Gibson EB-3,
Fender jazz, P-bass, and a Guild B-302!
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Hey Nick, nice to meet you. Didn't I also see an old Peavey behind the ladder in the first photo? We have some similar basses in the B-302, Epi Thunder Bird, and the Alembic. Except mine doesn't have signature electronics or fretboard inlays. Other than that they're identical.
Sam (the other one)
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Good eye! theres a peavey T-120 and a danaelectro
behind the ladder. theres also (on the hollow body tree as I call it)a epiphone rivoili, a jack casady,
2 conrads, and rickanbacker 4001,
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Welcome Nick!
You?ve got one damn nice collection...
I spotted very awesome instrument/things...!
Congratulations!
Greg
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It is raining Bass, alellujah!
(they are all over the place!)
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And there's still more!
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Welcome to the forum Nick. Play em all Healthy!
Art
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Hey Nick - greetings from the UK. Beautiful SC, almost the twin of mine, 'cept yours has the Christmas lights!
And where did you get those shades? Very cool!
K.
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thanks,My father found them some time in the 70's
I picked up were he left off or maybe it was I picked them up were he left them one or the othere