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Does anyone own a famous Bass?

#81
Roy Vogt said:
Not specifically a bass I've owned, but I did help Victor Wooten pick up Stanley Clarke's 5/8 size Italian upright in it's flight case when he bought it. At the time I was the friend who lived closest to him with a minivan. He bought it at the same time he bought the School Days Alembic (which I've played but of course don't own).
I did have Roscoe Beck's massive Mike Stevens 6 string for a month but in the end passed on it. It's happily gigging in Florida AFAIK.
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About the same time Victor bought Stanley's School Days Alembic, I bought a long scale Alembic that Stanley occasionally played on his Clarke Duke Project tours.

The bottom half of this photo shows the bass and a promo shot of Stanley with the bass. Ironically, everything in the top left picture in the montage has since been sold. The other picture is me with the Stanley bass and my other Alembic. They both arrived the same week in June 2000. That was a very good week.

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#84
Slax said:
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad
My 62' Pbass has FUNK engraved in the neck pocket. Does it count?



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Originally Posted by Gort
I don't know if it's famous or not but I picked up a beat up '60s 'burst P bass in a pawn shop a few years ago...some jackalope went and carved "Funk" in the neck heel with a what looks like was a ballpoint pen. It had terrible action and these cruddy old flatwound strings so I was able to talk the guy down from $500 to $350.

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There's 2 of them?

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#86
how much does one pay for the stanley clarke alembic he played school days on? and how does stanley just sell a bass like that? i could never do that...i'd make a shrine to it if i was stanley ;)
 
#87
malthumb said:
About the same time Victor bought Stanley's School Days Alembic, I bought a long scale Alembic that Stanley occasionally played on his Clarke Duke Project tours.

The bottom half of this photo shows the bass and a promo shot of Stanley with the bass. Ironically, everything in the top left picture in the montage has since been sold. The other picture is me with the Stanley bass and my other Alembic. They both arrived the same week in June 2000. That was a very good week.

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beautiful alembics., you have....I was able to pick up Stanleys "Clarke Spellbinders #3 &#4" from the same sell....a little bit of history.....:D
 
#88
JimmyM said:
how much does one pay for the stanley clarke alembic he played school days on? and how does stanley just sell a bass like that? i could never do that...i'd make a shrine to it if i was stanley ;)
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I talked with Stanley when I bought the long scale from him. He was auctioning off all his gear to settle the terms of a divorce. His ex had set unrealistic values on several of his instruments and expected him to just give her half of whatever value she set. He decided instead to sell it and give her half the proceeds.

The School Days bass was listed in the auction at around 20k but didn't sell. I saw it drop as low as $16k. Don't know what Vic paid for it.
 
#89
WoodyJ said:
Not exactly famous, but this '57 Precision belonged to Paul Goddard of the Atlanta Rhythm Section. In addition to using it to record the first 3 ARS albums before switching to a Ric, Paul also used it for studio and stage work with Roy Orbison's Candymen, Joe South and the Classics IV. I've been fortunate to own it for nearly 30 years.

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Judging from those pics, he needed a custom pickguard!
 
#92
Not a bass, but in October I got the pick used by Danyel Morgan, the bassist for Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Normally he doesn't use a pick, but one of the techs waiting in the wings gave it too him when he was changing out basses. He thought its jumbo size was so novel, he was laughing as he played. He played the encore, and then threw it into the crowd. I caught it after it bounced off of someone's head. Aww yeah. Really awesome, I was about 3 feet from him the whole show. That man has funk in his blood.
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The guitar pick, in case you're wondering, I stole off the stage from the guitarist for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' mic stand.
 
#97
I own the VERY early Steinberger L2 that was used on the Live Aid concert in 1985 to Play "Do They Know ITs Christmas"

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You can hear it on some of the vids too

Pete Briquette played it on soem Boomtown Rats albums too
 
#98
Don't own anything famous, however, like several posters, everyone of my basses has been played by someone of medium to large fame, only due to the fact that I live near a ton of 'em, to include Mesaros, Maby, Tallent, yada yada.

Interesting how all of them sound exactly like their "sound" even playing completely different instruments from their own and without really tweaking amps or bass.

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#99
I own the Celinder J Update 4 that was built for Danish bass player Thomas Skarbye (sometimes spelled as Skarbee or Scarbee) back in '98:
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I have no clue who the previous owners of my old Fender are.
 

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