AA (?) basses?

[Zerozeddy]

Once, when I was 15 and had no money, I lusted after a gorge bass in (RIP) Dougie's Music Store* in Northwich. This is 20 years ago, you understand.

I wouldn't mind tracking one down now I have a tad more disposable, or at least finding out some more info on them. Also to convince myself that my memory isn't completely knacked.

So - it was a smallish body, orange flame top, beautiful, and I'm SURE had an AA logo on the headstock.

Does this AA brand exist?

*If, heaven forbid, any forumer is familiar with the shop, it was on display in the small cupboardy bit at the far end upstairs on the guitar floor.

 

[RAOTswirled]

I used to work in Dougie's music, I clearly remember this bass, it had a gold Badass bridge and was a clear red finish. Dougie told me the AA stood for Angus Attila (Attiler not sur how you spell it). I sold the bass to a guy from southport called Malcolm, I remember this as I advertised it in the loot magazine and sold it from my home one sunday. must have been around 1993.

 

[thehangingmist]

I used to work in Dougie's music, I clearly remember this bass, it had a gold Badass bridge and was a clear red finish. Dougie told me the AA stood for Angus Attila (Attiler not sur how you spell it). I sold the bass to a guy from southport called Malcolm, I remember this as I advertised it in the loot magazine and sold it from my home one sunday. must have been around 1993.

wow small world aint it?

 

[TolerancEJ]

I thought it was cool to note the original thread was posted in 2005 & was resurrected today. Neat.

 

[Zerozeddy]

God bless the internet. Fantastic.

 

[Jimbob Jones]

Wow. this isn't a zombie thread, it's full on resurected! To complete this story we need a post from another TBer saying 'wow, I bought this bass in 1993, it's in the classifieds at the moment!'

 

[thehangingmist]

Wow. this isn't a zombie thread, it's full on resurected! To complete this story we need a post from another TBer saying 'wow, I bought this bass in 1993, it's in the classifieds at the moment!'

haha that will sound like a setup

 

[RAOTswirled]

God bless the internet. Fantastic.

I googled Dougie's music Northwich and seen this post in the search results, just had to reply. I actually still see a couple of the guys I used to work with at the shop. Mark who used to run the guitar dept is a good friend of mine who I see on a regular basis and Terry who used to do the repairs on amps, re tubing and stuff, he has a hardware and electrical store on the market in Northwich. I often think of maybe one day resurrecting the old shop I think I would even call it Dougies LMAO.

 

[kcole4001]

I remember these basses were advertised in the early 1980s in Musicstop's (largish local store) catalog, and I played one in the store in my town as well.
Nicely made, quite bright sounding, lots of sustain.
I seem to remember they were not very expensive.

 

[Zerozeddy]

"They were not very expensive" when you're 15 is very, very relative. I ended up buying a (lovely) Rick copy from Dougie's for £70.

Fans of doomed Northwich music shops will hopefully be amused to hear about a Kay guitar in Gorst and Oakes (sold fridges, cookers and guitars - aren't provincial towns fun?). I pressed my nose against the window and yearned for that guitar as a kid for years. It had a through-neck, vaguely double-cutaway Les Paul, and was beautiful. Then one day I saw it for sale in a house clearance shop down the road and was SOOOOOOO excited - I even had saved enough pocket money to buy it. Took it to school soon after for a band practice or something and left it in the music dept store room... in the afternoon when I went to pick it up said to the music teacher "just getting my guitar" and he replied "ah yes, yours is the small one". And the next Saturday I part-exed it for the biggest guitar I could find.

 

[Zerozeddy]

Were anyone after extreme thread resurrection, completely out of the blue I came across this thread (I'm Ajoten btw):

Atilla Balogh Odyssey Basses and Guitars

So the mystery is solved, hurrah! Sadly the bass is now £1700 as opposed to the £300 I could have bought it for all those years ago.

 

[GlenyrdSkynyrd]

Hey is this the bass you are talking about I have it hear in Victoria bc Canada I just picked it up!

 

[Duncmck81]

Thread revival part 3. I am Dougie's son and spent a good but of my child up in that shop..no not slave labour...sweets and cans of pop lol! But I did love playing around with all the synths, guitars, many basses (my dad was a bassist first then keyboard player). Finding this thread has blown my mind a little, I'd love to hear from all you guya that worked in or had bought stuff at the shop. And ultimately glad the OG has found his AA bass! Result that! . Cheers all, Duncan.

 

[Aric Bjorn]

Hey is this the bass you are talking about I have it hear in Victoria bc Canada I just picked it up!

Thread revival part 3. I am Dougie's son and spent a good but of my child up in that shop..no not slave labour...sweets and cans of pop lol! But I did love playing around with all the synths, guitars, many basses (my dad was a bassist first then keyboard player). Finding this thread has blown my mind a little, I'd love to hear from all you guya that worked in or had bought stuff at the shop. And ultimately glad the OG has found his AA bass! Result that! . Cheers all, Duncan.

What a cool thread, it's neat when the internet works like this. I stumbled on it for a totally random reason, but I'm glad I did. Fun read