Club Sadowsky!!!

[Chef]

Somehow, I just can't see Vic with Glam-Rock hair.

 

[Vic]

I used to have a Peavey somethingorrather. I never got the kind if sound out if it that I wanted. It's gone now. They always seem to sound, uh, '80s-y?

yeah, that rig is LONG gone.

 

[Vic]

Somehow, I just can't see Vic with Glam-Rock hair.

Hah. You musta' missed my embarrassing pictures thread... even though it's sticky and into part-two now!

No guts no glory, right? Here you go... laugh away... technically too frizzy to be glam rock hair (even tho in this lo-rez scan it's hard to tell), but the best I could do with my rats nest...

 

[Chef]

Dude, that's not you.

That's Bootsy Collins.

 

[BluesyCat]

I could sooooo easily put this up on the wall!!!! LOL!!!




But I won't.

 

[Chef]

You have to photo-chop in a Sadowsky though...???
Maybe you gots mad photo-chop skilz.

 

[Vic]

I could sooooo easily put this up on the wall!!!! LOL!!!




But I won't.

Hey, it's public domain, I don't care. Only problem is, the resolution is REALLY small, so it'll look like crap, plus, I'm playing some other brand of bass... sheesh, how could I do such a thing???

 

[Joeykun]

Can I play too? Me back in the early 80's.

 

[SCT1422]

Allright, I picked up my new bass at the shop taday and it turned out better than I thought !!! Everything was perfect.. The color is amazing and Roger put the parchment guard on for me which really sets the color off.. I'm having a mint guard made as well.. I also love the single coil pickups... Also the Sadowsky rig at the shop is killer.. Theres also a Vintage 4 in Burgundy Mist that I wish would have been a 5 string, really nice...

 

[roadkill2309]

Can I play too? Me back in the early 80's.

Gah. Am I really going to get involved in this? Sigh. Yes, yes I am:

Not Early '80s; more like maybe 89. This was a French-Canadian goth band I was in. I'm in the Jesus and Mary Chain shirt. Drummer absent or non-existant. I don't remember.

 

[Vic]

Can I play too? Me back in the early 80's.

wow! Another ric 4001! Dude I like you more and more all the time. Lol.

 

[KPO2000]

I'll play. Never played glam, but did the psychedelic hardcore punk thing in the late 80s. Still want to again.

Here's our post mortem MySpace page
Link Removed

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Very nice! I'm not usually a fan of spalted tops, but that one looks really classy. I'll have to get my ass into the city one of these days and see it in action.

 

[P. Bass]

I wish I had a pic holding my buddy's '63 P-Bass at this point.
We used to trade off quite a bit at our gigs. I'll NEVER forget that puppy!!!
This is before I took up bass only. In high school we used to gig every weekend at high school & teen club dances playing early R&R (A lot of "The Ventures" instrumental stuff & the 1st Beatles songs etc). This is the '61 Les Paul SG I traded in on a '63 strat. The amp is a '63 Fender Tremolux (2x10"). My buddy had a '63 P & a '63 Fender Bassman of the same tolex color & grill cloth.
The pic was taken before packing it up on the way to the gig. I STILL have that gold tie I'm wearing. Quite a keepsake. It's the earliest photo I have of my music.
Showman heads were mentioned recently here. I saw The Ventures play an arena in 1962 using 2 twin 15" JBL showman amps & a Fender Bassman. Lots of bass players adapted that Showman head for bass around that time as well.
B.
Spring 1963.

 

[pickles]

What came first, the modern 5 or the vintage 5? I'm curious about the development of the modern 5, don't think I've ever heard the back story on it. Just got one with big singles, it smokes.

 

[BluesyCat]

I don't have any band pictures so feel lucky that some of you have them regardless of what you looked like back then!

I don't even have 1 of me holding a guitar in my younger years (except a baby photo that I shared with Roger, Kevin, and Vic?). And I played guitar growing up, not bass.

I only started playing bass about 6 yrs ago!

oh fudge. I found 1 of me on open mic night stage....from December 2002. This was my first and last time on stage playing in front of a small audience in a local guitar shop. It was about 11pm or later and I was soooooo nervous that it took me all night to get up the courage to go on stage. There were about 50+ people in the "audience". Lol!

We're fingerpicking "Blackbird" by The Beatles.

 

[roadkill2309]

Very nice! I'm not usually a fan of spalted tops, but that one looks really classy. I'll have to get my ass into the city one of these days and see it in action.

I find that stuff like spalt and burl tend to be love or hate things for a lot of players. This is my first spalty top, and it comes after wanting a spalted bass for a loooong time. Burl I rarely like, bug bass12 had a bustled top Sadowsky 5 that j loved. I also saw a pic of a Lakland 55-94 with a burled top at uh... Bass Club Chicago, I think. I wanted it. Badly.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I really wanted a quilted maple top for a while. When I finally got one, I was not as enamoured with it as I thought I would be. I don't have that bass anymore. I seem to be liking white these days.

 

[roadkill2309]

I really wanted a quilted maple top for a while. When I finally got one, I was not as enamoured with it as I thought I would be. I don't have that bass anymore. I seem to be liking white these days.

My first fancy top was quilt. I'm not a huge fan either, though I've seen a few bloody dreamy quilted Sadowskys.

A lot of more affordable basses are being made with ultra-thin quilted or flamed veneers these days. I find that it's helped to uh... Reduce the attraction of some tops for me.

EDIT: For the record, I'm quite enamoured with the spalty top on my axe.

 

[kobass]

Here's one of me from around '76...

And a band pic from 1980 (I'm the one with the star on my shirt...)