Tim Bogert's 60s oddballs

The Lurker · #1 03-23-2010, 09:10 PM

I was looking up Vanilla Fudge clips on youtube tonight, and spotted Tim using a couple basses I couldn't identify....

On this clip from the Ed Sullivan show, he has what appears to be a bass with a body like a Telecaster guitar.

This one looks like a 5-string, but doesn't appear to be a Fender Bass V.... and as this is 1960something....?

Any idea what these might be? Frankensteins?

mellowgerman · #2 03-23-2010, 09:21 PM

not sure about the tele-lookin bass... but you can see in the second video if you pause it when you can first see the headstock, it's a 4 string. there are clearly only 4 tuning machine peg heads and strings. no idea what that bottom tuner looking thing is though...

Nashrakh · #3 03-23-2010, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mellowgerman

no idea what that bottom tuner looking thing is though...

maybe a joint holder lol

chicago_mike · #4 03-23-2010, 09:33 PM

Pausing the video on the suedo 5'er. Its not a tuning key. Looks like 2 dime bags!

Its still the telebass I think. I think what he did was put an older p-bass neck on the tele body. He may have moved the bridge, but It almost doesnt look like it.

chicago_mike · #5 03-23-2010, 09:34 PM

oh, its a jazz bass in the b/w oops!

darkblack99 · #6 03-23-2010, 10:23 PM

The German b/w film looks like a Jazz with a mid-'50's P-bass neck.
You can see that it's the same type of neck around 3:00 into the Sullivan footage, but the hookup with a Tele-style body was probably a one-off custom - certainly not a Fender catalog item for bass.

GlennW · #7 03-23-2010, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Nashrakh

maybe a joint holder lol

I think I read somewhere they called them roach clips.

jgsbass · #8 03-24-2010, 04:28 AM

I think its just a decorative tassel, from a light fixture. Roach clip seems appropriate, given the times.

RickC · #9 03-24-2010, 07:24 AM

Indeed. It was the sixties man; bass players were always hanging weird stuff from their headstocks for some reason.

Nashrakh · #10 03-24-2010, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by GlennW

I think I read somewhere they called them roach clips.

That's the word I was looking for

Posting at like, 4AM ain't good for you... lol

Mojo-Man · #11 03-25-2010, 06:42 AM

With the Fudge, and Cactus.
Tim used a white, 1967-P-body.
with a late 50's P-neck, maple fingerboard. (Tele, looking headstock)
And a added 50's, P-bass pickup in the bridge position. ( Tele, bass pickup)
I got to play this bass when Tim was in Cactus. (It killed)