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11-02-2012, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Winston Salem, N.C. | | | Stanley Clarke's Alembic ?
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/msg/3298341096.html this , according to the seller may be stanley clarkes alembic bass. What are your thoughts ? |
11-02-2012, 05:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: On vacation until August! | | | It's a decent price for that bass whether it's his or not. Bet you could talk him down even more. Exactly the Alembic I want. Alas, no money. Go to the Alembic forum and ask there. You may have to join first to post there though. |
11-02-2012, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Logan,W.V.(not up some holler) | | | There ought to be enough pics of this bass on the web if it is his. Does he have any proof Stanley Clark once owned it? Nice bass, if it's your thing. |
11-02-2012, 05:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 2k W of the Duwamsh | | | If it's a '78 how could it have "started it all for Stanley Clarke! Literally!"? 'Seems to me that he was around before that.
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11-02-2012, 05:23 PM
|  | Jumping off the fiscal cliff | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Canada | | Hmm... that same bass (or at least, the same picture) is here... feeler: 1978 alembic series 1 short scale, flamed walnut caps
It stuck out because of the dark wood knots on either side of the bass. I know neither of the sellers BTW (maybe they're the same person).
Anyway, FYI.
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11-02-2012, 05:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Austin, TX | | | Non original bridge as well.
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11-02-2012, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Seattle, WA | | | I suppose it's possible that Stanley Clarke owned the bass at one time but hard to say. In my opinion, this possibility is somewhat irrelavent. That being said, we're looking at a late '70's Series I bass and the asking price is definitely in the ball park. Before I bought it, I'd want to check it out to make sure it's in full functioning order. If so, you could make an offer near his asking price and get a pretty decent deal (and a killer bass to boot).
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11-02-2012, 05:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Didn't notice the non-original bridge at first. I would lower my offer to offset this fact.
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11-02-2012, 05:44 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: connecticut | | | victor wooten owns stanley's bass...stanley gave it to him as a gift. We got to see it at VW Bass camp..ill try to find a pic i took |
11-02-2012, 05:46 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: connecticut | | | stanley clarke bass |
11-02-2012, 05:48 PM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | Stanley has owned a lot of basses.
So the one Vic has does not mean there aren't others out there.
I have no opinion on whether this particular bass was ever Stanley's.
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11-02-2012, 05:51 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: connecticut | | | fair enough but the CL post is kind of misleading..I suppose the "thought to be" keeps it from being definitive anyways. |
11-02-2012, 06:48 PM
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11-02-2012, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dallas Texas | | Even if it isn't Stanley's bass, I still think is really cool.  |
11-02-2012, 07:08 PM
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The bass is thought to be his actual bass that can be heard on the George Duke project.
| Contact Rick Turner, he would know for sure. 
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11-02-2012, 08:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | I think Stanley's first Series 1 was a '73. Wait a second...isn't this the bass that went to Hong Kong or something and started that tiff in the classifieds?
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11-02-2012, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by JacobWhaler Even if it isn't Stanley's bass, I still think is really cool. | I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers
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11-02-2012, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | I think that bass was sold and the seller simply forgot to close the listing.
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11-02-2012, 09:43 PM
| | | | I did, at one time, buy an Alembic from Alan Woody back in 1985. A Series One, it had a different top wood from the back. Seems like Pau Ferro top and black Walnut back and was a 35" scale.
I was taking lessons from Roy Voght at the time and he brought out his Alembic and we stood them on their ends and mine was an inch taller. It was an '80 model. I didn't keep it, too big, and heavy, had to carry that separate transformer and 9 pin DIN cable.
Basically, famous players do sell instruments from time to time. |
11-03-2012, 10:24 AM
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Developer: iGigBook® | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Peoples Republic of Brooklyn | | | Stanley sold a number of his basses and a member here Malthumb, I believe has at least one of them.
The bass in the OP was not Stanley's bass, but was one that was offered for sale here on TB in the classifieds. It stands out because of the modified bridge and the photos identical to the bass offered for sale in the TB classifieds. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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