Anyone remember this bass?

[tiefling]

Hello. Around 1993 I worked in a guitar store and we had an Ibanez bass in stock and I can't remember it's name/model number. It had a simlar body to the Invalid Link Removed, but was made of wood.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[swampash]

ugly comes to thought, but i doubt they named it that

 

[embellisher]

Ibanez AFR

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There are several pics of it on this page from the Bunnybass website: http://www.bunnybass.com/e-zine/amusing/amusingbass14.shtml

 

[bovinehost]

Mmmm, stretchy.

 

[pc]

Oh, yes!!!!

The AFRs are the most beautiful basses I've ever seen...

 

[tiefling]

thats it! Thanks...

 

[bassman1185]

Somehow that body looks better in that natural wood than it does with the luthite. I almost like that one.

 

[Andre_gt7]

Awesome....but i like the luthite better...even tho wood must sound awesome

 

[RLT]

From the look of the headstock in that shot. You could accidently kill a guitarist.
(My corner, no dancing/prancing or what ever you call it. Whoops I warned you, Medics!)

 

[Bass Viking]

If I remember correctly, Bass Player Magazine reviewed that one. It was built by a Rolf Spuler, or something like that.

 

[barkatozz]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Percy Jones used to play a 5 string fretless version that I always lusted after. That was on the later Brand X tours, now he plays the luthite model with the band Tunnels. For some reason which he never answered when I asked him, he prefered the luthite sound to that wood combo. Sounded crazy to me but he is the king. However I just read on his site he made a wooden body to replace his luthite. No mag PUP only piezo, that's how he had the luthite one when I last saw him, ripped the mag out completely, nothing but an ugly red luthite hole. LOL
Dirk

 

[pc]

...No mag PUP only piezo, that's how he had the luthite one when I last saw him, ripped the mag out completely, nothing but an ugly red luthite hole. LOL
Dirk

Yeah... there are a couple of videos on his website with him played this ripped off EDA... Great tone!

 

[CaracasBass]

One word: U-G-L-Y!!!!

 

[hieronymous]

Percy Jones used to play a 5 string fretless version that I always lusted after... No mag PUP only piezo, that's how he had the luthite one when I last saw him, ripped the mag out completely, nothing but an ugly red luthite hole. LOL
Dirk

Just found this in an interview on the enhanced portion of the new Tunnels live album, The Art of Living Dangerously:

Interviewer: There is a hole in your bass where there probably was a pickup; why, and do you have plans to make use of it?

Percy Jones: There was a magnetic pickup in there which I never used since I just used the piezos. I'm going to fill the hole with Composition B and then stick a detonator in it.

By the way, there are some videos of Tunnels here:

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I haven't watched them yet, but at least one of the tunes ("Lilly's Dolphin") seems to be the same performance that's on the live album.

 

[mcdeath]

Wow.

If you ever had to fight off the guitarist, this is the bass to have.

 

[srxplayer]

Oh, yes!!!!

The AFRs are the most beautiful basses I've ever seen...

 

[mark beem]

By the way, there are some videos of Tunnels here:

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I haven't watched them yet, but at least one of the tunes ("Lilly's Dolphin") seems to be the same performance that's on the live album.

Wow!! Incredible stuff!!

 

[Beav]

From the look of the headstock in that shot. You could "accidently" kill a guitarist.

 

[RLT]

"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Accidentally Ac`ci*den"tal*ly, adv.
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance;
unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

I am a bad boy. I forgot "al"

But officer I was just a groovin' with my eyes shut when I felt this thud and my bass was ripped right out of my hands!