NAMM 2013 - Page 17

R Baer · #**321** 01-28-2013, 01:14 PM

Shared the booth with Pat Wilkins this year and he brought in some really great basses. The natural finish, passive 5 string in front was just a super bass. Pretty much any tone you want from this bass, vintage, or modern. Really a special instrument and still available, I believe.

A couple more cool basses from Pat. The red bass with the flame top has a body made from 75 year old alder and the neck maple is over 150 years old! All that vintage wood and the Demeter pre-amp made for an amazing tone.

**Chef** · #**322** 01-28-2013, 01:17 PM

Wow; that 5 string, in the middle of the lower pic speaks to me; nice!

LowBSix · #**323** 01-28-2013, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by R Baer

Shared the booth with Pat Wilkins this year and he brought in some really great basses. The natural finish, passive 5 string in front was just a super bass. Pretty much any tone you want from this bass, vintage, or modern. Really a special instrument and still available, I believe.

A couple more cool basses from Pat. The red bass with the flame top has a body made from 75 year old alder and the neck maple is over 150 years old! All that vintage wood and the Demeter pre-amp made for an amazing tone.

Hey Roger! Sorry I missed you!!! I got there late Saturday, ran around to the usual spots and was tied up at closing. I hope the show was a huge success for you! I did hear great reports about your amp!!!
Take Care!
Rich

lowfreqgeek · #**324** 01-28-2013, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by R Baer

Shared the booth with Pat Wilkins this year and he brought in some really great basses. The natural finish, passive 5 string in front was just a super bass. Pretty much any tone you want from this bass, vintage, or modern. Really a special instrument and still available, I believe.

I believe the natural/naked 5 is Jimmy Earl's personal bass. And it is a KILLER jazz bass. It's like the best of the best 4-string J's I've played, only with a B-string down below.

MarkusBass · #**325** 01-28-2013, 01:36 PM

Super cool! Pat is one awesome dude!! Love the chambered active PJ he made me!

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Originally Posted by R Baer

Shared the booth with Pat Wilkins this year and he brought in some really great basses. The natural finish, passive 5 string in front was just a super bass. Pretty much any tone you want from this bass, vintage, or modern. Really a special instrument and still available, I believe.

A couple more cool basses from Pat. The red bass with the flame top has a body made from 75 year old alder and the neck maple is over 150 years old! All that vintage wood and the Demeter pre-amp made for an amazing tone.

lowfreqgeek · #**326** 01-28-2013, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by artdrtr

NAMM proves to me just how much lefties are left out in the cold. Fender had 0 lefty bases and 0 lefty guitars in their entire display of hundreds..... Squire-1. Sandberg-1. Musicman-1. Ric-1.
Gibson-0. Zon-0. Warwick-0. Yamaha-0. Ibanez-0. Lakland-0. Every other boutique bass Co.-0 .... I do remember Hipshot had a left bass on display... probably a MIM J iirc -- I know I replace my MIM J's tuners with Hipshots.... Except for meeting Steve Lukather, this year was a bust for me -- probably my last show.

You should have come down to the Regenerate Guitar Works booth in hall E. Rod had a very cool lefty Regenerator w/MM pickup. He only had one, but he also only had a small handful of basses, so the percentage of leftys was much higher with Rod.

RGW will be back next year.

klaus486 · #**327** 01-28-2013, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Munjibunga

No Benavente - I'll try to remember to get some Sunday. But I did see Sekou Bunch playing the new Fodera Hollowbody. Amazing sound.

OMG! What a machine! I'd love to play one of these......

abarson · #**328** 01-28-2013, 02:28 PM

Can anyone who was there report on the D'Angelico hollowbody? Here's what's on their website, but supposedly the new model was introduced at NAMM.

http://dangelicoguitars.com/#StandardSeries

. 2013 EX-BASS .

Laminated Flame Maple Top, Back, And Sides With 5-ply Binding
Semi-hollow Construction With Mahogany Bridge Block For Reduced Weight And Classic Hollow Body Tones
2-piece Hard Rock Maple Neck With Walnut Center Stripe
1 11/16” Nut Width
Indian Rosewood Fretboard With Mother-of-pearl Block Inlays And 4-ply Binding
22 Medium Jumbo Nickel Frets For Smooth Playing
32.25” Scale Length

Signature D’angelico Headstock Equipped With Iconic Brass Finial And Art Deco Mother-of-pearl Inlays
Genuine Bone Nut For Superior Tone
Gold Tuneomatic Bass Bridge With Gold Stop Piece
Exclusive Machined Aluminum Truss Rod Cover Modeled After The New Yorker Hotel

R Baer · #**329** 01-28-2013, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Chef

Wow; that 5 string, in the middle of the lower pic speaks to me; nice!

That bass was great indeed! Pat's basses are just like your old pair of slippers. The second you pick one up it's just very comfortable and familiar. Nothing to adjust too. Just pick up and play. His new Road Tested line is very cool as well. All the quality of a high end boutique bass, but Pat has the bodies and necks made for him and he does all the assembly, finish and set up, which let's you get a remarkably good bass for around 2 grand.

**Chef** · #**330** 01-28-2013, 02:33 PM

cool.

R Baer · #**331** 01-28-2013, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by lowfreqgeek

I believe the natural/naked 5 is Jimmy Earl's personal bass. And it is a KILLER jazz bass. It's like the best of the best 4-string J's I've played, only with a B-string down below.

I'm not sure if that was Jimmy's personal bass or not, but Pat is building that as a standard model. My favorite bass in the booth. Just a nice full tone that was remarkably organic sounding with tons of bark and growl.

R Baer · #**332** 01-28-2013, 02:36 PM

Me and Rufus Philpot showing off our new Skjold basses. This dude is just a ridiculous player! He plugged that bass into the rig and started playing and I was quite literally stunned at his playing. Off the hook amazing! By the way, the bass Pete built for me could quite possibly have the best B string I've ever played. Every note all the way down is just incredible focused with absolutely no blurriness or odd overtones going on. Amazing.