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11-08-2008, 01:12 PM
| | Proprietor, Upton Bass String Instrument Co. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Boston, MA 617-236-7706 | | | Joe's House of Sandals bass case
For those of you that know of the old Joe's cases the link below is copy of an original 1980 Joe's House of Sandals catalog! THIS is the original bass bag baby! I was sooo psyched to see this beauty (the catalog) come out of a beautiful CA 1980 Joe's case. The bass inside wasn't too bad either, just some Italian thing 
Thank you to our customer, for saving this little beauty!
This catalog file is far too large for the TB attachment thingy so if you would like the file it can be downloaded from our site address below. I understand linking to our site is a violation of the CUP however the page below only serves the purpose of holding the address for the catalog and was only done because the TB attachment file size limitation. Honestly, if folks start whining I'll be VERY sorry I took the time to copy, host, post and share this. I hope that's not the case and the concentration remains on the subject at hand.
Once again, it's a pdf of the 1980 Joe's House of Sandals catalog. I'll leave the file up for a few days for you guys to download...enjoy! http://www.uptonbass.com/joes-house-sandals-bass-bag/
Gary
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11-08-2008, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | That's cool! There's a whole bunch of my very favorite musicians in those pages. |
11-08-2008, 02:44 PM
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Euphonic Audio "Player" | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | That is just the coolest . . . the names, the pics, it's all so much in that tme.
I may be the last guy standing using a Sandal House bag. It's old and much, much used. The ergos are less than ideal. But man, I wanted one when I was a kid and I smile to use it today. Like a Walter Woods amp or -- dare I say it -- like a fine, artist-crafted bass, Quality Will Out.
Thanks for sharing, Gary.
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11-08-2008, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Dig those 1980's prices....that was a lot of bread then. The artwork is great. |
11-08-2008, 05:13 PM
| | AES Fine Instruments | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brewster, NY, USA | | One day I shlepped my bass into Joe's for a fitting. I took it out of the canvas bag and his eyes lit up. "You see that thing on the wall?", he asked me, and I looked up to see a magnificent all-glove-leather bass cover hanging there. "I made it for this guy but it turned out a little too small. I bet it fits your bass perfectly. If so, you can have it for half price." Well, he took it down and it fit my 1967 Pollmann 3/4 like...well, like a glove. I bought it on the spot. Some years later I sold the bass and the cover with it, to an old fellow from Tennesee. Two decades later I saw the cover behind Jim Ham's booth at the Kalamazoo ISB convention. Turns out it now belongs to Jim's wife. Small world.
One of my best friends, bassist Mark Minkler, still uses his Joe's nylon/leather bag on his old American Standard.
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11-08-2008, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Ha! They misspelled John Heard's name....
Oh well...he got a case out of it.
Thanks Gary.
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"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself." Phil Urso, 1980. :atoz: |
11-08-2008, 10:22 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | An all leather DB bag? God, I can only imagine how much one would cost now a days.
That catalog had me salivating and it's a safe bet that I wasn't yet born when it was made [1986].
Great link/post.
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11-09-2008, 04:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | One of the basses I bought from Arnold came with a Joe's bag.
It looked hip, but it was heavy and not well thought out for handle placement. Sometimes a bassist would see me on the street and smile and yell, and that felt nice, but I sold it to Gage to resell to the NYC crowd.
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11-09-2008, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Santa Monica, CA | | | cool, but pricey stuff. If you adjust for the consumer price index, the leather bass bag would be $1725 in 2008 dollars. It would be a rather unique bag, although not too many would buy one. I have a well worn leather gig bag for my mandolin (much more recently made), it just looks even better with use.
Even their nylon bass bag corresponds to $1000 in current prices and even if they are extremely well made and custom sizes, we now can buy extremely well made nylon bags and custom sized for a lot less. They don't wear out gracefully like leather, though.
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11-09-2008, 05:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Hey c'mon... if it was good enough for John Hurd....  |
11-09-2008, 05:54 PM
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11-10-2008, 10:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | My teacher has a Joe's bag, but it's at home. He uses his Mooradian ...
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11-10-2008, 11:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | I almost bought one years back...I thought they looked so cool and serious.
I went into a shop many years ago when I was playing the Vangaurd, and one wall was filled with used Joe cases just hanging there spelling, for me, defeated.
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09-16-2011, 01:57 PM
| | | | "I happened to run across an older, 2010, forum about Jose's House of Sandals cases. I was the other half with Joe when we started the business in NYC in 1974 moving from Madison, WI. I designed most of the cases that we made through 1983. I was pleased to hear some of the comments of which one was from Paul Warburton describing a shop near the Vanguard that had our used cases. Over the years since I left NYC moving back to WI, I have seen pictures (magazines, tv) of musicians with our cases. Always a good feeling. I see someone actually downloaded our catalog. The night club/music scene was a fantastic experience during those years. I thank everyone for the support Joe and I were given. Visiting with Ron Carter, Marcus Miller, Will Lee, McCoy Tyner, Jon Faddis, Frank Wess and hundreds of other musicians while customizing work for them was such a privelege and pleasure both. Every few years I dig out my pictures just for the memories."
Paul
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09-26-2011, 01:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC, Inwood. | | | They were (are) truly fine cases-made with a lot of care and attention to detail. The main drawback after the weight was when you got to the gig-where to put it? It was like having a second instrument to find a place for. If any NYC players remember Gregory's at 63rd and 1st, it was hard enough to stash a flannel-lined canvas bass bag, much less a Joe's. |
09-26-2011, 02:38 PM
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I used to run into Charlie Haden over in Europe. This was when he had that fabulous Guillaume bass worth unimaginable $'s. One time we were packing up our basses at the same concert venue and I said "I see you got a Joe's case." He said: "Man, I wouldn't even think of using another case on this bass." He also mentioned what a drag it was to find a place to store it in a small club similar to what salcott mentions.
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02-25-2013, 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by CamMcIntyre  An all leather DB bag? God, I can only imagine how much one would cost now a days.
That catalog had me salivating and it's a safe bet that I wasn't yet born when it was made [1986].
Great link/post. | ...and how much would (and did) it weight...lol |
02-25-2013, 12:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson Hey c'mon... if it was good enough for John Hurd.... | John HURD did not have the other choices we have these days back then. You see, these days there are so many case companies (I am an endorsing artist with Reunion Blues) so not trying to agitate to buy anything to be clear. Just in general, keep in mind that back in the day there was not nearly a quarter of the choices that we have to day, rig-wise. So I believe it was liek the hippest thing you could have thought of then and I respect the sentimental value of those cases and wish I would have one myself - its really special and unique. |
02-25-2013, 06:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Zombie thread - it wasn't a Joe's House bag, but when I was at Berklee Kiyoshi Kitigawa had a leather bag for his bass, ****er weighed a TON. But every bassist wanted it....
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02-25-2013, 07:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Burlington, VT | | | I bought a Joe's House of Sandals nylon bag in 1980 from Chuck Traeger at the Bass Shop in NYC for $375. It had been made for "some other bass player" who never picked it up. When I got it home, I opened the bow case flap and written on it was "Gary Peacock"! I still have the case, still use it everyday, it's still in good condition. I have had to replace the main zipper several times, and will have to replace one of the leather pieces on the front and the side handle soon, but it is still the toughest, most padded, best protecting case I've ever seen. When my daughter was young and I used to bring her to gigs, she would curl up in the case and take a nap. Whoever mentioned that the case is hard to store is correct; I never seem to be able to fold it up into a smaller size! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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