An Interview with Spencer Lull

[mambo4]

Ok technically Spencer is not a luthier, but he has taken the reigns of business from Mike and seems to be doing his father justice.
I had the pleasure of dealing with Mike in person a few times, and I am a lucky owner of one of his fantastic instruments.

 

[tb-player]

Great interview. Spencer's the best. And so are Mike Lull basses. I have a new M4V arriving tomorrow and it will see a lot of action. Mike Lull guitars and basses are the real deal.

 

[cxcxcx]

Very nice and client-forward guy. Certainly a credit to the industry.

 

[Hans Gruber]

I LOVE what Spencer is doing with the company. His dad would've been very proud.

 

[RGerhart]

I met Mike back in the day, and have hung out with Spencer a few times, too. Great people, and great basses! Nothing but kudos to Lull.

 

[basspraiser]

Great job Marcel @macribas

 

[pfschim]

umm... I only checked out a bit of the video. I'm a huge Lull fan, my primary player for the past 18 years is a Mike built M4V. But when Spencer was telling the story about Mikes early days he said something kind of odd (at least in my opinion) ... "in the early 60's, electric basses were not a common thing" (or words to that effect). Well, Fender released the Precision in 1951 and by the early 60's electric bass was pretty common. So what gives with that ??

 

[cousinelmer]

umm... I only checked out a bit of the video. I'm a huge Lull fan, my primary player for the past 18 years is a Mike built M4V. But when Spencer was telling the story about Mikes early days he said something kind of odd (at least in my opinion) ... "in the early 60's, electric basses were not a common thing" (or words to that effect). Well, Fender released the Precision in 1951 and by the early 60's electric bass was pretty common. So what gives with that ??

I've been wondering about Herbie Flowers' tale about when he discovered, for the first time, an electric bass in a jazz club. Stories vary but it seems he was unaware of the existence of electric basses until (at least -- stories vary) 1959.

In an interview Herbie mentions 1959:



From the following link:

"In the early 1960s, he completed military service and promptly joined several Dixieland jazz bands. Around this time, he discovered modern jazz and first heard an electric bass at a New York nightclub, leading him to acquire a $70 Lake Placid Blue 1960 Fender Jazz Bass from Manny's Music."

“I told Lou Reed, ‘Can I get the double bass out of the car? Because this song is a bit jazzy’”: British bass legend Herbie Flowers, best known for his work with David Bowie and Paul McCartney, dies aged 86

Flowers recorded over 20,000 sessions and his distinctive jazz-informed bass heavily features on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side and Bowie's Space Oddity

www.guitarworld.com

 

[pfschim]

I've been wondering about Herbie Flowers' tale about when he discovered, for the first time, an electric bass in a jazz club. Stories vary but it seems he was unaware of the existence of electric basses until (at least -- stories vary) 1959.

In an interview Herbie mentions 1959:



From the following link:

"In the early 1960s, he completed military service and promptly joined several Dixieland jazz bands. Around this time, he discovered modern jazz and first heard an electric bass at a New York nightclub, leading him to acquire a $70 Lake Placid Blue 1960 Fender Jazz Bass from Manny's Music."

“I told Lou Reed, ‘Can I get the double bass out of the car? Because this song is a bit jazzy’”: British bass legend Herbie Flowers, best known for his work with David Bowie and Paul McCartney, dies aged 86

Flowers recorded over 20,000 sessions and his distinctive jazz-informed bass heavily features on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side and Bowie's Space Oddity

www.guitarworld.com

yeah, a little odd too, but Mike Lull was about playing in rock bands of the day in the early 60's (according to Spencers telling of his dads early playing experience), and there were definitely electric basses in the early 60's, I mean pretty much everywhere.

All of this is really no big deal, but Spencers comment on this caught my ear and sounded odd.