Author Topic: Oops and airline broke my bass..!!! (Read 85 times)

jazzyvee · « **on:** August 27, 2009, 11:50:41 PM »

(Message edited by jazzyvee on August 27, 2009)

jazzyvee · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2009, 11:58:05 PM »

This picture of Stanley Clarke with a bass broken by an airline on David Dyson's facebook album, Capitol Jazz Fest 2009...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209461&id=1213380296

Full picture

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30209457&id=1213380296#/photo.php?pid=30209462&id=1213380296
Maybe he could write a ditty like that country singer David Carroll did about United airlines but a bit funkier.

jazzyvee

terryc · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2009, 02:11:47 AM »

Was it his really old one that he uses?? it looks fairly new.
Airlines..when I brought my MK from New York 11 years ago I was positively shitting myself that it would come back intact..even though there were a load of 'fragile' stickers on it.

David Houck · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2009, 11:25:10 AM »

Wow! Does the article give any details on how the bass was broken?

jazzyvee · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2009, 11:47:36 AM »

I wondered if it was his old one but on Stanley'shis web site it says ... On the road he is using a Spellbinder Upright Contrebasse, a copy of Stanley's main upright used at home, a 120-year old German flatback acoustic, which sports a Fishman BP-100-bridge mounted pickup.

So I guess its a new one and not the German one.
Dave, the page doesn't say how the bass was broken or any other details just that it was broken by the airline.

Jazzyvee