Author Topic: 72-01 (Read 608 times)

bigredbass · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2006, 06:50:30 PM »

OK, we've GOT to keep this just among us guys, we CAN'T tell him, you guys BETTER keep this under your hat, OK?

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It's STILL hanging on the wall!! 72-01 has SO much mojo it's got it's own Cloaking Device ! ! !

Not a word, you hear? Make it so, Number One.

J o e y

(Message edited by bigredbass on January 31, 2006)

lbanks · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2006, 07:55:39 PM »

I don't about his story, but a local store/repairman did rip me off for a SVT head. (We can't contact the tech, but, we'll find it!) Going on the third year.

edwin · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2006, 11:06:01 AM »

I lost a really cool German version of an echoplex to a repair shop in Boston. It was completely tube powered (with the cool magic eye tube to judge levels). I brought to the place behind Berklee when it failed and went on the road and lost the ticket. When I got back a few months later, they said they never heard of such a thing. I later saw one in Amsterdam at a music store, but didn't have the mean to either buy it or carry it with me.

As far as #1, Rick Turner said a while back:

For any of you Bay Area bassists who want to see the first Alembic bass, serial number 71-001---made by me for Jack Casady in 1971---there's a new show at the San Francisco museum of Modern Art titled Far Out, Bay Area Design, 1967 to 1973 ... [I was able] to enter it (along with a guitar from 1969) in the show. The bass hardly ever sees the light of day, and I, for one, will be glad to see it again.

I saw that show, it was very cool as was the Pretzel Guitar that Rick made. I also got a lot of emails from the guy who claimed to have lost this bass. It's been years since I heard anything about it, though.

My real curiousity is: Who has the Osage Orange bass?

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Edwin

(Message edited by davehouck on February 01, 2006)

dela217 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2006, 01:03:11 PM »

Edwin - I remember reading a story somewhere (maybe here) that the Osage Orange bass was hacked up and used as a test bed for some other type of electronics. I don't know if that is true though.

On that thought, I wonder where David Torbert's bass is.(New Riders Of The Purple Sage)

edwin · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:07:28 PM »

I read that too about the OO bass, but the carcass has to be somewhere. I can't imagine that someone would just chuck it out. You never know.

Of course, I'm still wondering where my first bass is, a '63 Gibson EB2D.

Edwin

adriaan · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2006, 03:16:01 AM »

Marcky posted clippings from an old Music Maker article about a 1984 factory tour (http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/23534.html). It has a picture of the test bed bass - I seem to remember its nickname is mentioned in the article - which appears to be a Small Standard, with half of the top wing sawn off (sideways).

The 80s hairdo person handling the fretless was the bass player with Vandenberg (Vandenburg?). That band was of course headed by Adje Vandenberg, who moved on to Whitesnake, Coverdale, e tutti quanti - there was even a Peavey Vandenberg signature model for a while.

adriaan · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2006, 05:59:27 AM »

... come to think of it, there as also talk of the osage orange bass having been used as a test bed, though not by Alembic, after it had started to delaminate (pre-echoes of Michael's Katrina bass ...)

kungfusheriff · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2006, 08:08:45 AM »

I heard that story, too, adriaan. Fred Hammon of Hammon Engineering (who are putting out reissues of the Hagstrom pickups used in Guild basses) has the OO bass' pickups. The guy who gave them to him said the rest of the bass was used as a test bed for many bizarre experiments and is now a carcass, IIRC.