Author Topic: Alembics used in major label recordings (Read 1119 times)

blazer · « **Reply #15 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:35:49 AM »

Prince's bass players played a lot of alembics

Brown Mark played a whit Alembic spoiler with flower motives on Around the world in a day and on Parade

His successor Levi Seacer Jr. Played a Black Alembic Spoiler on Love sexy and Grafiti bridge

And Sonny T can be seen using Levi Seacer's Spoiler in the video for Peach

blazer · « **Reply #16 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:44:01 AM »

Brown Mark apparently still plays his Alembic spoiler but I guess it recieved some mods, judging from the enormous array of knobs and switches.

bumhucker · « **Reply #17 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:51:00 AM »

looks like a synth pickup on there!

hifiguy · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2006, 05:12:27 PM »

I recall an article in Bass Player in which Jason Newstad (Cliff Burton's replacement in Metallica) spoke of owning and recording with a half-dozen Alembics. This would have been around the black album era in the early 1990s.

Nice catch with the Cammack connection, Edwin. His playing on that album is boggling, but when I saw Ahmad Jamal about nine years ago Jim was playing a traditional upright.

Peter Steele of Type O Negative is an Alembic player. Saw them in concert and his big, long scale Alembic looked like a toy on Steele, a 6'7 bodybuilder.

Paul (another one)

jubeas3eyes · « **Reply #19 on:** November 06, 2006, 05:21:05 PM »

The bassist from Pinback plays a series 1 and recorded their albums with it.

bassdr · « **Reply #20 on:** November 06, 2006, 06:51:49 PM »

Jimmy Johnson Flim and the BB's CD's on DMP label

worldfamousandy · « **Reply #21 on:** November 07, 2006, 08:01:51 AM »

Cammack on the Ahmad Jamal album Live at the Montreal Jazz Fest is probably my favorite. I have seen that group around 10 times, and he does sometimes play upright, but Jim's real forte is that fretless Series II. For the classic wide-open Alembic sound, The Who's Eminence Front can't be beat. It's what inspired me to play bass.

Andy Calder
www.andycalderbass.com

karl · « **Reply #22 on:** November 07, 2006, 09:26:27 AM »

A couple more live albums for you:

Armand Sabal-Lecco is playing a Series instrument for most of Paul Simon's famous Concert in Central Park - no other bass on earth can sound like that!

And while it's not one of the band's better recordings, Mark King is unmistakably playing an Alembic on Level 42's Live In Wembley CD (c.1990, not to be confused with the Live at Wembley video from around 87, where he's using a Jaydee).

K.
www.myspace.com/harambe

FC Bass · « **Reply #23 on:** November 07, 2006, 10:07:44 AM »

Gorefest - Erase
Jan Chris de koeijer bought his Elan when Gorefest was recording this masterpiece.
Quote:
I bought the Elan in the summer of '94 in Germany somewhere near Gelsenkirchen when we were recording Erase.
The Dean ML had a rattle somewhere that we couldn't locate, so we went out to this amazing music shop and started testing every bass that was around, and the Alembic was a winner.

And another live album / VHS / DVD:
Metallica Live S**t Binge & Purge
Almost on all songs Alembic: Persuader, Elan and Series II (Spoiler and Europa shape)
Jason also played Wal basses on the ...and Justice for all tour, from the '91 Monsters of rock tour till '94 (?) I only saw him with Alembics.

inthelows · « **Reply #24 on:** November 07, 2006, 10:54:25 AM »

I found this on you tube. Looks like the Elan with series 1 electronics.
NLP

inthelows · « **Reply #25 on:** November 07, 2006, 11:01:45 AM »

Noticed some foul language at the very beginging of this. I have no way to edit it out. Sorry about that!!
Parental advisory..If your ears can't handle the word F#*kin and its only once.. Please don't open the the you tube file!!!! It is Metallica!
NLP

longhorncat · « **Reply #26 on:** November 07, 2006, 11:01:59 AM »

John Paul Jones

gtrguy · « **Reply #27 on:** November 07, 2006, 01:03:01 PM »

The Brothers Johnson!

jseitang · « **Reply #28 on:** November 08, 2006, 05:40:19 PM »

i think the guy from pinback plays a signature not series I.i could be wrong but all the times ive seen them, the guy has always played a signature deluxe

jazzyvee · « **Reply #29 on:** November 08, 2006, 11:35:25 PM »

I have seen Alphonso Johnson with alembic series instrument years ago. Also Norman Watt Roy used an alembic as well in the past not sure if he used it on the track with Ian Dury and the Blockheads called Hit me with your Rhytmn stick.
JAzzyvee