Alembic spotting

[midus]

can you spot mine...?
 
www.midus.net

[midus]

can you spot mine...?
 
www.midus.net

[palembic]

Ok MIdus ...I went and looked and ...liked it!!!!!
Again ...great to have you here!!!!
NOw I understand that you are backing up Mel C.
Well ...can any of the more professional guys take over from me because this is WAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of my league!!!!
 
 
PTBO

[effclef]

Saw an ad go by on Univision for some sort of Iglesias concert coming up. Only saw 4 seconds of it but with the people jumping around on stage I am going to have to guess it was Enrique not Julio. Anyway there was a shot of a bassist playing a point body Alembic and there was a six string something on a stand which had the distinctive Alembic ovals on the fretboard. Perhaps it was even a guitar instead of a bass.  
 
Maybe someone more familiar with Enrique can pipe up and speak.  
 
Meanwhile - Basstard: I like Type O Negative also. I have to laugh at one of their early albums though...Steele says check this out! and proceeds to do a very BORING solo run on the bass. Really sounded funny at the time! Though with a band who puts out a best-of compilation called LEAST WORST OF, I am guessing he was just being humorous in the first place.
 
Do you know which songs or records may have been recorded with his Alembic?
 
EffClef

[bigbadbill]

Hi Midus! I remember videotaping one of your performances with Mel C off the t.v. because you were playing an Alembic, the same Orion as above I believe. I have this strange addiction which means that if I see an Alembic on the t.v. I have to tape it for posterity; I have quite a bit of Level 42, some Rose Royce, a bit of Genesis, a little James Taylor, Stan the Man, Armand Sabal-Lecco with Paul Simon, the Who obviously, a bit of John Lodge and a few other bits and pieces. Even if it's only on for a minute or two, I try and get a record. Between that and the Elvish I guess there's really no hope....is there an AA (Alemboholics Anonymous) for this?
 
My name's Shaun and I'm an Alemboholic...  

[bracheen]

Something about AA I never understood.  If it's anonymous why do they make you stand up and tell your name?

[mica]

Peter Steele bought 3 Epics shortly before Bloody Kisses, so I guess he used them on that album. Before that, he had a Spoiler (which I beleive he still has). Funny thing, he bought the Epics all unfinished and painted them himself. And the keyboard player liked Peter's basses so much he ordered an Essence to start learning bass.  
 
My favorite Type O is the cover of Summer Breeze.

[mint_bass]

hi i think the bass player in earth wind fire is playing an alembic but i am not sure i may be wrong

[basstard]

I believe Peter Steele used his Alembics to record October Rust (my favourite Type O album of all), but yeah, he might've used them on some of the Bloody Kisses songs, too.  
 
My favourite Type O songs are Christian Woman (from Bloody Kisses), Love You To Death, Green Man, and Wolf Moon (from October Rust)... But I really like all the rest, too. I have yet to hear the entire Life Is Killing Me (their latest album) - I Don't Wanna Be Me and Electrocute are the only 2 songs I've heard so far.  
 
I've been to their gig in Warsaw last July - very cool show. Unfortunately, Peter played his Fernandez... :-(  
 
Oh, and welcome Mindus! Sweet Orion you've got there - I'm during the process of saving for a 2nd hand Orion 5, so I hope I'll be in the Orion club in a year's time or so...
 
(Message edited by basstard on March 26, 2004)

[henri_lopes]

I've seen Peter Steele play an upright bass in the horizontal position, that was interesting.
Bloody kisses is my favourite Type O album.

[dannobasso]

On the Enrique bass, that's a custom walnut Spoiler 6 bass. I had ordered it but there was a mix up with the pickups. Mica made me another one, took my initials out of hat one and now it is traveling the globe. I love the second one they made. Waiting on my latest bass from Mica and Susan.
Danno

[rv_bass]

I went to a jazz brunch today, and to my surprise (and pleasure) the bass player was playing a beautiful 76 Alembic Series I.  Enjoying the sounds of a fine player and his Alembic made brunch that much better! 

[David Houck]

Hope you were wearing your Alembic sweatshirt.   

[rv_bass]

No, but I was wearing my Alembic hat

[David Houck]

Great!