Author Topic: Cool Japanese Alembic ad from the '80s (Read 199 times)

hieronymous · « **on:** June 24, 2012, 08:44:19 AM »

I don't usually look at stuff like this on eBay but happened to check this one out:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980-ALEMBIC-DISTILLATE-Guitar-JAPAN-PROMO-PRINT-AD-/310298190744?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item483f36a398#ht_976wt_828

sonicus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2012, 10:05:44 AM »

Very cool ___ I have one of those Bass's
Thanks for posting __

hieronymous · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2012, 10:18:38 AM »

And what an awesome bass your bass is!

sonicus · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2012, 10:38:57 AM »

Thanks, I love that Bass too. I won her in an eBay auction and drove 842 miles round trip to get her in person.

pace · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2012, 12:44:59 PM »

I think a modular brass control plate along w/ a modular brass pickup ring would be a great idea for Alembic dealers.... have a couple of test bed instruments in house at all times, w/ plates for all the pup configurations and electronic packages imaginable....

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2012, 05:46:44 PM »

I want that Distillate guitar!

Peter

hieronymous · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2012, 11:15:07 PM »

I love the background image - would love to see a block-print Alembic catalog! (I'm old-fashioned though)

jazzyvee · « **Reply #7 on:** June 27, 2012, 12:03:53 AM »

Pace, I like that modular idea. One step further though, I think would be for alembic to make and sell an outboard stomp box/DI with alembic tone circuits. I think it would be great for someone who had a bass or guitar that they wonted to improve the tone of but didn't want to carve out the innards of a treasured instrument to add alembic pickups and electronics.

Something like a heavy duty Pro-co Rat shaped box would be great.

jazzyvee

lbpesq · « **Reply #8 on:** June 27, 2012, 08:46:00 AM »

Sounds like an SF-2 stompbox.

Bill, tgo