On my iPad, when a thread contains large pictures, it makes the text look I'm peering into the wrong end of binoculars. I'm not complaining, though. Different perspectives are always good. Can somebody please lay a bassline on this? (It's in Japanese, so you can just turn the sound off and let 'er rip.)
http://youtu.be/-rRK7vlBG8A My favorite thing about this bass isn't the color (I spent a good deal of my childhood in *Texas, so I think of that color as pank), it's the way the incredible pillows of the quilted maple glow through the pank finish and makes it look like somebody tossed a handful of marbles into a pond, as reflected against the sky at sunset. Somebody used the word unique earlier. Yeah, we probably won't see anything like that again. The pank on that plank is puuuuuurdy.
When it comes to price, I always liked Alan Watts' advice; you walk into a store with money, and you leave with wealth. I bought my first guitar when I was 9 years old, for five dollars. It's a handmade Hermanos Godvinas classical guitar that a classmate sold me because he wanted to get out of taking guitar lessons. I still have it. It's the only classical guitar I've ever seen where the frets in first position are worn right down to the fingerboard (from learning the Lennon-McCartney/James Taylor canon). I wouldn't sell it, even for ten grand. I suspect if the right person buys that pank Alembic, they'll know exactly how it feels. I sure hope so, anyway.
*where Cletus was born.
