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07-11-2010, 08:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Did Mark King use a Zon bass on "Something about you" video ??
I knew he used to play Alembic and Status, but that bass looks like a modified Zon Scepter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYZ_...eature=related
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07-11-2010, 08:18 AM
| | | | I can't seem to open the video, but Mark has been most often seen and identified with a Jaydee Supernatural bass made by John Diggins in the UK.
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07-11-2010, 08:21 AM
| | | | Looks like a zon to me. |
07-11-2010, 02:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | | Yup...Zon Scepter with a Kahler tremolo.
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07-11-2010, 04:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunnyvale, CA | | | Oh, what lust I have for that bass. |
07-11-2010, 05:23 PM
|  | Working on his world citizenship... | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Cronx | | I got a chance to play that bass years ago. The Bass Centre, back when it was in Wapping in London, had it, complete with Mark King's signature on the back. And it's a Legacy, not a Scepter. Very nice bass.  Shame I wasn't a good enough player back then to do it any justice. |
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That's a Zon Legacy bass, not a Scepter... old logo on the headstock... probably one of the first that they made.
And yes, that's a Kahler tremolo.
KILLER song... one of my favorites from this era. |
02-10-2013, 08:54 PM
| | Registered User | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Addison  Thread resurrection!
That's a Zon Legacy bass, not a Scepter... old logo on the headstock... probably one of the first that they made.
And yes, that's a Kahler tremolo.
KILLER song... one of my favorites from this era. | So he was back then the 1st famous player to play a Zon?
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02-11-2013, 01:47 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I'm sorry, but Mark King looks so uncomfortable with his bass up like that. It actually looks like it hurts.
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02-11-2013, 04:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Methuen, MA USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Papersen So he was back then the 1st famous player to play a Zon? | http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/history.html
Rick James and John Wetton were the first!
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02-11-2013, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by KPJ | Not sure if he was ever an "endorsing artist", he's not mentioned anywhere on that timeline, but John Giblin was using Zon basses in the early 1980s. |
02-11-2013, 12:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | TIME LINE
May 1981: ZON GUITARS founded as a custom guitar and repair shop in Buffalo, New York.
June 1981: Zon exhibits at first NAMM show in Chicago, Illinois. Unveils Signature and Standard model 4- and 8-string basses.
October 1981: Rick James and the Stone City Band become Zon's first endorsing artist
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