Show Your Basses!

[Ken]

Here's are my main basses these days. They're all keepers.

"Pig Pen" my '64 Jazz Bass. I can't put it down for long.


Sadowsky Vintage 4...My second favorite, but best playing bass.


Pre-EB Stingray: I consider selling it from time to time, but then I play it and remember how great this bass is.


I recently set this one free:


Low-res Family photo.
The black bass is a Lull Vintage 4 that sounds like a great 70's J bass and is my best bass for slapping and plucking due I believe mostly to its aluminum bridge. The Alembic Exploiter is a great player as well. It has the piano tone as well and is effortless to play finger style. Missing are my mocha '74 P bass, my Teal Green Roscoe Beck 5, and my cheap Asin Dane 5 string fretless.


Pictures hosted by Lilypix.com! ;)

[Winston]

That '64 Jazz Bass looks cool as hell! I'm digging the Sadowsky too!

[Ken]

I remeber wanting a BC Rich badly after seeing Geezer Butler on the Black Sabbath "Mob Rules" tour. What a cool looking bass!

Winston, thanks for the compliment. BTW, just had the bridge pick-up in the photo rewound by Jim Rolph. It sounds great! The picture of the J bass was taken at an inn my wife and I went to for our anniversary last weekend.

[Plankspanker]

This one is an EB6 from 1965. It's tuned to E like a guitar,you can fret it or play lead lines.

http://pic1.picturetrail.com:80/VOL1...6/10012395.jpg

[LowDown]

Here are all my axes...

www.robkidd.homestead.com/bassstories.html

Really love the P Bass, and the fretless 5-string is very cool, too...

[Jimi's Bolero]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that 7 string you built is unreal!

the restoration of the P bass is incredible too, I like the fact you didn't totally refin the body, but just "preserved" it. I'm digging the Bach soundclip you put up too!!

nice site! I'll have to look through the other stuff you've got too :) glad you put soundclips up, so nice to hear the instruments.

[Jimi's Bolero]

ps if you ever get that Bach thing transcribed, I'd love a copy, if that's possible?

I'm just learning bass, but it sounds like a great practice tune....would sound real nice in, say, Cathedral de Notre Dame through an SVT & 8x10 :)

*edit* -> well, I figured the first bit out, it sure is a finger stretcher going from the 3rd string D---->4th string C---->1st string E!! at least, for my gtr playing fingers :)

[Jimi's Bolero]

ken, do you have any more (big high res?) shots of your '64 jazz bass?

that looks incredible, would make great wallpaper!

ok I'll shut up now.....:)

[LowDown]

Thanks for those kind remarks, Jimi!

hmm, the Bach thing is a long term project. I kind of have most of the movements of that 1st suite in my head, I just need to refine them a little more to suit playing them on the Fender, and then write my versions out! I can't believe how interested people are, so I'll have to get happening, I think. Originally, I learned these from the 'cello parts and played them on five string, in their original keys, but when I started mucking around with them on the P bass, I had to transpose them to suit the range on the instrument.


"would sound real nice in, say, Cathedral de Notre Dame through an SVT & 8x10 "


anything sounds nice through one of those amps! I used one at a festival gig at the end of last year - I actually had to turn the "bass" knob back to about 10 o'clock! - the first bass rig I've ever done that with...

[Jimi's Bolero]

you're welcome!

that's some serious playing & building you've got on that site.

as far as the music, maybe I'll just hunt it down then; it's just called "Bach's 1st Cello suite"?

( or if you have a longer mp3 I can figure it out by ear...? I'm doing pretty good so far, got up to 13 second mark in 1 session!)

I guess this is getting off-topic....:)

back to pics of gear

[GeetarGoul]

Here's a friend holding my bass. Swamp ash body and vintage style neck and parts.

[Ken]

GG, beautiful Jazz! What's it's story?

LowDown, great site and nice playing! (Back to the woodshed for me! )

Ken

[LowDown]

"it's just called "Bach's 1st Cello suite"?"

Yeah, pretty much. Bach wrote six suites for solo cello, and this is the first (in Gmajor). You might have to buy all six together - this is how I've always seen them published. I'll try to record my version of the prelude in the next few days...

That's a great looking Jazz bass, Geetar...

[GeetarGoul]

Originally posted by Ken
GG, beautiful Jazz! What's it's story?

LowDown, great site and nice playing! (Back to the woodshed for me! )

Ken

Ken- THe jazz bass was assembled from wood I purchased from Tommy at USA Custom Guitars in Washington state. Scott Lentz (in the picture) is the person who did the finish and assembly. It is a great peice that cost be about a grand total. A comparable new Fender would have been a bunch more. The neck shape is a bit deeper than current J-basses. It's a good bass for sure.

[Bolero]

gtrGhoul, is it me, or does Scott Lentz look annoyed in that picture?

looks like he's thinking: " okay, get this joker outta here so I can get back to work........whaddya mean the flash didn't go off?? I have to pose here AGAIN?? okay, make it quick.... "

:p

[GeetarGoul]

Scott isn't one of those people wearing an eternal smile. He better not be too pissed, as he got a nice check right befor the pic. ;)