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    what's so great about Alembic basses?

    ....besides the fact they have the coolest headstock logo ever invented


    are there any "benchmark" recordings of them out there? what do they sound like?

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    I was introduced to both Alembic tone and Stanley Clarke talent in one fell swoop, "School Days.

    wow
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    Yeah, check out stanley Clarke with Return to Forever together with Chick Corea and Al Dimeola.


    Also, I think Alembic were the first to make "custom" basses with exotic woods in the early 70s.

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    thx, I'll check those out.

    was "return to forever" Dimeola with the lester?

    think I've heard people mention them before....did they do more than 1 album?
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    Originally posted by Bolero
    thx, I'll check those out.

    was "return to forever" Dimeola with the lester?

    think I've heard people mention them before....did they do more than 1 album?

    I think DiMeola was playing a Les Paul back then. I don't know how many albums they all did together, but all those guys worked with lots of people on lots of different projects.

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    Alembic

    I've got the jones for their F-2B stereo tube preamp for my rack. It's based on the preamp section of a Fender Dual Showman and has got the best clean tone of any rack mounted preamp I have ever heard.


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    Hey, Spose, did we already talk about this??

    I had an Alembic just like the first, top guitar in your pic with the group of Alembics on the floor.

    I had a weird XLR-type chord and a powered preamp thing.

    It kicked my ass. The scale and the heavy neck caused me to sell it after only a few months.

    But it had god-like tone!!
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    Alembic Classico



    My fav

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    Getting back to the TEXT side of the topic:

    Wanna bechmark recording? Try BloodSugarSexMagic by Chili Peppers.

    That is a pretty high-visibility recording from a short ago...and yeah, all the piccolo-bass Stanley Clarke work...

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    thx spose!!


    cool pix, & that sounds real good too.


    paparhino, I thought BSSM was a musicman stingray? I love that album.
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    Actually, If that is the record they recorded with Rick Rubin in a big old mansion, Flea used an Alembic Epic.

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    man, how the heck am I supposed to determine that?????


    LOL






    btw spose, was that bassline from a song, or were you just jammin'?

    thx
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    great info, thx!

    will give me some things to listen to

    are there any "official" Dead recordings from that era?

    I have a couple but can't remember what they're called....."bears choice", "live dead", + couple others, but I don't know when they were recorded.....I would bet they weren't done with Rick Ruben in a big old mansion though

    haven't been to the Wah in a while, have to check that out.

    thx!!
    Last edited by Bolero; 12-10-2003 at 09:06 AM.
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    speaking of Rueben, I could go for one of them grilled on rye bread, with lotsa mustard, saurkraut, and a big pickle right about now....hmmm.
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