History of the Stanley Clarke small body shape?

[bigbadbill]

I always (rightly or wrongly) assumed that the original body shapes, standard and small standard, were very loosely based on the Guild Starfire and Gibson EB. Of course I may have been inhaling too many fumes at this point!

[malthumb]

Keavin,
 
Still got it.  Don't see that changing anytime soon.
 
Hendrixclarke,
 
XLNT synopsis of the Small Standard / Stanley Clarke connection.
 
Remember, there are other signature basses in the Alembic portfolio.  Other than the EVH, I believe all the designs existed before the model was declared a signature.
 
Peace,
 
James

[hendixclarke]

James, I couldn't agree with you more.  
 
The body (the guitar) was always here... they just needed the right soul (talent-person) for us to identify the shape  
 
Companies and business can sometime help us recognize with creating a signature model.  
 
The real question is: are the signature models more valuable than the predated models. I don't want somebody else's name on my ax.  
 
I don't see Stanley playing a signature series, and why should I?
 
This is a person pref, and it is not to say something, you probably already heard before.

[hendixclarke]

At my age, I am too old to lie.  
 
The choice between a Small body s1, and a SC
signature series -- hands down, the s1 small would be my choice.
 
To provide a perspective...
 
A choice between SC signature between any other guitar brand on the market -- Give me the SC signature!

[white_cloud]

Hal - its a wonderful thing in life to know what you want, so many people never really do.
 
It comes down to personal choice at the end of the day - and thank god for that! It is what makes the world go round
 
Im not a short scale guy( Stans fingers look gigantic on his tiny fretboard ) but other than that the small body shapes on both the SC and the series look amazing to me. I always preferred the look of the Gibson EB basses, with the two tuners either side headstock, as opposed to the Fender basses - but obviously the Fender basses were far superior IMHO.
 
 The Alembic SC was for me the bass that had the look and also delivered! Basically the ultimate bass!
 
John.

[hendixclarke]

John, you are right.  
 
I think what makes people interesting, are on moments when we can be trusted to be ourselves and still be accepting.  
 
The EB3 controls also looks like an s1. It amazing how Alembics evolved from ideas also predefined...
 
http://www.gibsonbass.com/EB3.php