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These are a better representation of the colors. The flash kinda washes the depth away. Thanks to Roger and Kevin for an excellent job of taking care of me. I was having some work done and got hired to do a session and they made sure I got my bass back in time. And of course...it sounded awesome! Thanks for your superior Customer Service. Im a Sadowsky player for life.
Yeah, wasn't he one of the biggest Sadowsky fanboys of them all (well, excluding JimS and Bikeplate!
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Yeah, wasn't he one of the biggest Sadowsky fanboys of them all (well, excluding JimS and Bikeplate!
Mike is playing Nordy's now. I have his ash/maple reverse PJ5 (see my Avatar) and his other Sadowsky has sold on Talkbass recently
Gilles! What's up with that bass!? Is it cursed, or what!?
I thought that you'd really get a kick out of that one. Oh well, they're still very hard to come by in Europe, so you'll have no trouble getting rid of it. Sorry it didn't work out
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Well Andy, that bass looks so gorgeous that it gets into hands of people like you and me
that are not worthy 
No seriously, I got that bass of yours, thinking I got an even bigger version of the (MV5) J sound.
But it is no J sound at all. It sounds TOO THICK, too R'n'B, too modern ... for my taste.
I am a J guy, that is the conclusion I get from all my experiments with non-J-basses.
But maybe someone is willing to trade some MV5, RV5 or UV 5 string for it.....
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I present to you the apogee of musical instruments,
the zenith of tone,
the meridian of harmonics,
and I think it can get can low notes, too:
...
OK, but does it have VTC?
Well Andy, that bass looks so gorgeous that it gets into hands of people like you and me
No seriously, I got that bass of yours, thinking I got an even bigger version of the (MV5) J sound.
But it is no J sound at all. It sounds TOO THICK, too R'n'B, too modern ... for my taste.
I am a J guy, that is the conclusion I get from all my experiments with non-J-basses.
But maybe someone is willing to trade some MV5, RV5 or UV 5 string for it.....
Well, at least you're discovering what you do like. That's half the battle, I always think
.I'm sure you'll have no trouble trading it for another Sadowsky
. The Modern is a much rarer bass over here (in Europe) than the "Jazz" basses and that black one of yours is pretty much like new, so someone's gonna get themselves a good deal.Good luck, Gilles
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I want so much to be in this club. I am saving and saving so that I can have one! Then I can be in the most exclusive club on TB!!!!!
As some of you may have seen from other threads I started, I recently purchases a NYC Standard 4 that was build for Steve W. Rabe of SWR and used in some SWR ads in the early 90's. I've been trying to date the bass. On the back of the headstock it mentions J.Black as one the builders. In another thread Roger mentioned Jay Black worked with him in the late 80's. So that puts my bass some where in that time frame. Well last night I opened the control cavity cover and there were two dates penciled on the inside of the cover, 12-88 and 12-98. I'm guessing that the 12-88 was the build date and maybe the 12-98 was when it was serviced at Sadowsky for some reason?? I know the build date could not have been in 98 because of when those SWR ads came out. Well if it is a 1988, I have a vintage Sadowsky...and a well broken in one at that! Any of you Sadowsky heads concur?
As some of you may have seen from other threads I started, I recently purchases a NYC Standard 4 that was build for Steve W. Rabe of SWR and used in some SWR ads in the early 90's. I've been trying to date the bass. On the back of the headstock it mentions J.Black as one the builders. In another thread Roger mentioned Jay Black worked with him in the late 80's. So that puts my bass some where in that time frame. Well last night I opened the control cavity cover and there were two dates penciled on the inside of the cover, 12-88 and 12-98. I'm guessing that the 12-88 was the build date and maybe the 12-98 was when it was serviced at Sadowsky for some reason?? I know the build date could not have been in 98 because of when those SWR ads came out. Well if it is a 1988, I have a vintage Sadowsky...and a well broken in one at that! Any of you Sadowsky heads concur?
It was built in 1988. In 1998, Steve Rabe sent it back to be "refurbished". We did a complete overhaul at that time. That bass was at the SWR booth every year from 1988 until Steve left the company.
roger
Thanks Roger! No wonder Steve had it with him all those years at SWR, the bass sounds amazing!
Brian Barrett
Commercial User
- Nov 25, 2001
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Wondering if anyone can help myself and a customer/friend figure out his Sadowsky. He comes in and plays every NYC Sadowsky I get in the shop and thats a good number of them. He can never find one that sounds like this early one. Its got regular pickups, Sadowsky, Dimarzio or SD type pickups. The pre though is a little different. Looks like the old Bart/Sadowsky pre, but then there is this small board I have never seen in one before.
Maybe if Roger pops in he can answer what the mystery is in this bass.
Maybe if Roger pops in he can answer what the mystery is in this bass.
I'm sure someone else might be able to help you out, but how about some pics of the rest of the bass too. 
Brian Barrett
Commercial User
- Nov 25, 2001
- 2,799
- 40
- Disclosures
- Dealer LowEndBassShop.com, Builder LowEndBasses.com
I'm sure someone else might be able to help you out, but how about some pics of the rest of the bass too.
sadly enough thats all I took. I know this was a Tom Anderson era.
