Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Community => Gatherings => Topic started by: malthumb on August 12, 2012, 04:11:40 PM
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Yesterday (Saturday, Aug 11, 2012) the 2nd Annual Detroit Bass Players Photo Shoot took place in front of the Motown Museum.
The event sprang from a Facebook group for Detroit bassists. Last year someone had the idea to recreate the famous photo of Harlem Renaissance era jazz musicians photographed in front of a Harlem brownstone. The idea was, let's all meet at the Motown Museum, bring your favorite bass and we';ll take the photo. It went over so well that now it will be an annual event. I missed it last year, but this year I attended with my two kids. And of course, I just happened to take an Alembic with me.
Mica may even have some recollection of the Music Man bass my oldest son is showing.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/65124/137474.jpg)
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very cool James!
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That's a great picture!
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James,
Will you adopt me and give me a great bass to play?
VMG
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Great picture, James. My daughters and I were there, but could not stick around for the photo shoot. Here is another picture that was emailed to me.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/65124/137816.jpg)
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Nice!
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That's a lot of bass players! Cool picture!
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Great pic...like a Where's Waldo of bass.
I see some of the usual suspects (Fenders, MusicMans [two Bongos, actually], Ibanezes)--and a few nontypical axes in there. Can someone ID the round green one (second row to right of middle) and angular white one (second row far right)?
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The Green bass belongs to Emily Rogers.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/65124/137859.jpg)
(Message edited by billostech on August 19, 2012)
(Message edited by davehouck on August 20, 2012)
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The White bass belongs to Michael Rich. Both are local artist:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/65124/137862.jpg)
(Message edited by billostech on August 19, 2012)
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Cool !
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Here is a link to where Emily discusses her bass build:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LlU7GX1FmU&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LlU7GX1FmU&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
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I love Emily's build. Her bass is nice too
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I agree, that is a nice body shape which seems like it would balance well . . .
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Okay, now I'm also curious about the orange bass with the interesting cutout areas as well.
The headstock on the white one looks like a Travis Bean or possibly Kramer.
Are both of these custom jobs?
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Yes. The Orange one belongs to Mr. William Pope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvPTIw7Ntw&sns=em (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvPTIw7Ntw&sns=em)
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Definitely Kramer. Travis Bean had a closed headstock with a T shaped hole in it. The two prong open headstock is Kramer.
Bill, tgo
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Could be a Vaccaro, who bought the Kramer neck design when Kramer folded.
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Vaccaro confirmed on Mike's facebook post
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Here is a message Mike sent me about hIs bass:
Michael Rich 8:20pm Sep 9
you asked me about my bass so let me tell you my story. Vaccaro took over kramer and designed a new neck. I was on disablilty (due to a broken arm) at the time and I found out they had open shop in NJ. I called them and asked if I could get a tour and if i could buy a finished neck. years before i designed and copywrote the body design and i decided to marry the two. we had an awsome day and he told me all od the storys including the michael jackson drama way before it happened. well before i could finish the company closed shop. I at the the time was an electronic techinican so i knew guitar electronics. I studied with anderson howard who was a student of lamont johnson so I understood bass construction. the body is my answer to fender's model. everything about it is based on a jazz / musicman... but with a twist. It has G&L passive pickups to give it the musicman kick but it has an active 3 band parametric eq preamp that I found in germany. the bridge used ibanez monorail detuner on each string but i found out you can't do that because the calibration was too sensitive. i installed a badass to compenstate. the next model will have a warwick bridge. just for show there is a programable led readout that will scroll a message while i am playing. i thought it would give the viewer a spaceage experiance. this model is made of basswood but i am using swamp ash for the next model. the paint job is a custom car paint with sparkles but the next model will be chrome to match the head stock.
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Luv the pictures! where is the girl in the green from? she's a cutie!
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Yes that white bass sure does look like the Kramer
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Wylie,
Here is Emily's facebook page;
http://www.facebook.com/emilyonbass (http://www.facebook.com/emilyonbass)
btw, one of the photos made this issue of Bass Players magazine