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05-27-2011, 11:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Niagara Falls, NY | | | A perfectly good Shen ruined!
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05-27-2011, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | I was at Tom's shop a few weeks ago and he shakes his head at this as much as anyone else. He doesn't mind so much spray-painting the Cremona BSO's etc, but several of the rockabilly guys have come to him wanting "better" basses. At least he got one of the best auto detail companies in the area to do the paint job.
Welcome to the world of supply and demand, I guess.
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05-27-2011, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | If I had some mad money, I would love to have an artist friend do up a bass, and I think the SB80 is a perfect candidate. Hopefully the paint job wouldn't ruin the sound. |
05-27-2011, 11:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | It's not ruined, it's just a niche product now. Very targeted and limited market for it going forward.
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05-27-2011, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | Maybe somebody should buy one of these and paint it all woodgrain...
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05-27-2011, 11:56 AM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | | No need for a good carved bass for that b/c they usually amplify it so much that it wouldn't matter. Many of them have the ribs and block beefed up to withstand their weight when they stand on them. |
05-27-2011, 11:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | "The opening act at Viva Las Vegas 14 Car Show played this bass, and then it stayed on the stage during Jerry Lee Lewis's show.
This was April 23rd 2011. The Lustre Kings was the opening band with Mike "Chops" LeConte enjoying playing this bass. He LOVED it!".
Thus, the bass is used; not new.
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05-27-2011, 12:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: New York City | | | Haha wow! I'd love to bring that to work one day! Can you imagine being a conductor, looking over at the basses, and seeing that! haha! |
05-27-2011, 06:14 PM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | I'd take that pimped out bass paint job over a lost in the crowd boring brown one any day!!! 
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05-27-2011, 06:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | I don't see how it's ruined. The paint job is decent enough, and it's a factory bass. I would be upset if it were a master-crafted piece of bass history, but it's a Shen. Brent Norton used to custom paint the same basses, although his work was much nicer than this. |
05-28-2011, 06:19 AM
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Wow.
It "stayed on the stage during Jerry Lee Lewis's show". If that ain't a selling point.....
Betcha' Scott's Prescott would be worth a lot more $'s now if Barrie could come up with some history like that.
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05-28-2011, 06:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sarasota, Florida, USA | | | Why are all the sperm swimming downward?
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05-28-2011, 06:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Taylors SC | | | Are you sure that's actually what they say it is? As far as I know, the SB80 only comes with violin corners. I saw that the other day, and it didn't seem right to me. I went on the Shen website, and there was no mention of them being available in Gamba.
Also, FMI is known for peddling crap. |
05-28-2011, 06:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The Great White North | | | Woah there!!
If I could afford it, I'd sure as shootin' learn to play it!! I'm sorry guys, but that's just fine by me!!
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05-28-2011, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Southern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton  Wow.
It "stayed on the stage during Jerry Lee Lewis's show". If that ain't a selling point..... | Found that VERY amusing myself! Lame to even have it in the ad. Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua Maybe somebody should buy one of these and paint it all woodgrain... | haha King actually did do many of their basses natural woodgrain... or translucent paint to see the wood grain. They still don't sound good though.
Flames on anything is stupid (to me anyways). Flames are not 'Rockabilly'.
Also, WHY paint the bridge????
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05-28-2011, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Kansas City area | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Wow.
It "stayed on the stage during Jerry Lee Lewis's show". If that ain't a selling point.....
Betcha' Scott's Prescott would be worth a lot more $'s now if Barrie could come up with some history like that. | Who's Scott? Nevur seed him on no Rokobully sirkit. Did Barrie paint his base n du u have piks? 
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05-28-2011, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: San Francisco, CA | | >> Are you sure that's actually what they say it is? As far as I know, the SB80 only comes with violin corners. I saw that the other day, and it didn't seem right to me. I went on the Shen website, and there was no mention of them being available in Gamba. Shen used to offer Gamba corners. Wish they still did.
You could see that bass as a statement in favor of fun and spontaneity, and against effete snobbery. Viewed that way, I'm all for it. |
05-28-2011, 10:34 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Erie, PA | | | My theory is that it's not even a shen. It's just some $300 terrible bass that they painted with bright heavy art paint (poorly) and are trying to sell for a ridiculous amount of money.
My second theory is that it's a 3/4 willow shen which they destroyed. If this is the case, they're still adding about $1000 for the terrible paint job and they effectively ruined a perfectly good bass.
Either way I would not buy this bass lol
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05-28-2011, 10:39 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Hagstrom, Mahalo | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sierra Madre, California | | What we have here are people lining up with either the traditionalists or the nonconformists. I find it interesting how musicians have a reputation for being nonconformist; but in reality, how many of us would actually buy such an instrument?  |
05-28-2011, 01:33 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | This thread went exactly down the road I predicted. Just as did the 346 similar ones before it. Around and around we go! 
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