Recent content by moproducer

OK, I've been using one on gigs for about nine months, so I'm ready to make a qualified comment. First off, I bought it for a backup unit. My normal setup was a Carvin BX500 head into a BR210 cab + a B115 cab. At the max, we play around 300 seats outdoor and 150 seats indoor without instrument...

Has anyone done a side-by-side with a '60s model? I have a '64 Newport and love it. I don't gig with it because the headstock is notorious for breaking, but I jam with it at home. Curious as to how they got the new Sidewinder to sound.

How 'bout Hagstroms from the 1960s? All 32" scale. The HIIB was the workhorse of the gigging musician in those days, and good enough for Randy Meisner of the Eagles. There's no telling how many of them were shipped to the US & Canada from around 1964 through 1970. I have two of them as my...

Good point, and one that I hadn't thought of. There's always baritone guitar strings, if you want to look 'em up...

I did a bit of research and came up with something, for what it's worth. The D'Addario EXL 170-8 set looks like this: 45/18, 65/28, 80/40 and 100/50. If you went with LaBella Deep Talkin' Flats on the low octave, you'd have 45, 65, 85 and 105. Adding LaBella Jazz Guitar Light Flats on the high...

I don't have an 8 so I can't make an experienced comment. I can say with certainty that the neck & truss rod construction are the same. If it were me - and this is subjective - I'd build a set of my own 8 string flatwounds. I would likely start with LaBella Low Tensions and build from there...

I've been playing Hagstrom basses since I first picked one up 57 years ago. The solid body HIB, HIIB / F400, Deluxe, Kent, etc. all had floating rosewood bridges, one-piece. The Coronado had a similar bridge with individual plastic saddles, the HIIBN had individual metal saddles, and the...

I have a hammer like that...it's had the head replaced twice and the handle three times. Best hammer I've ever owned.

The first e-bass I ever acquired was a single-pickup '64 Danelectro, around 1970 or so. I was 14. It got traded off not long thereafter. Included in that trade was a '64 Epiphone Newport and Standel Artist amp. The Epi was my go-to instrument for more than five years, by which time I'd started...

I have a '64 Epi Newport with one of these...it blows the socks off (almost) anything else I play. Only my Hagstrom FB400s have as much bottom. I don't take it to gigs (we seem to get a lot of friendly drunks up on stage and we've had an axe stomped) but I love to plug it in for practice.

That's actually M.R. Ogle's instrument and comment. I have a '64 HIB, a '67 HIIB and a '69 HIIB. I'm not sure that Hagstrom's record-keeping was always accurate. The Deluxe line was relatively short-lived and seems to have overlapped the FB400/HIIB line. The Deluxes were pretty good. When he...

You're probably right, about 1965. Sometime in 1966 (and with some overlap) Hagstrom changed the pickup design to a square-edged as opposed to rounded version as seen here. I have a '64, '67 and a '69. They are lighter and have more thump than my Fenders and Gibson. The guys in my band say...

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Mr Gene, I think you'll have better luck moving your query to a Memphis bass forum. This forum is about Marshall Grant, and I'm fairly certain he never used a fretless Korean Memphis bass.

According to Grant's book, I Was There When It Happened, his very first bass was an beaten-up, nameless upright that he picked up in 1954 for $25 at the O.K. Houck Piano Co. in Memphis. As soon as Cash's records were playing and money started coming in, he moved up to an Epiphone B4. I heard...