Just a couple weeks ago I broke out the Nantucket Sleighride CD, this version has great liner notes where both Leslie and Corky mention how they hated Sleighride when Felix brought it in, because it was too hard. Those basslines are sublime!Goosebumps.
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Felix Pappalardi anyone?
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mine's pickup reads a little above 32K ohms and it sounds ridiculously good.
The live side of Flowers Of Evil is from their Fillmore Closing set. The guitar solo anyway.
That’s quite a piece. It looks great. You know, I’m wondering how many bassists used that tail post and played those up right?
Felix had plenty of prime Fillmore tapes, but settled for the FOE bit instead of a blockbuster dbl. live release, then they broke up. THAT is what I would have luv'd to've Produced as far as picking and structuring the songs, in my mind it would have been the #1 live LP ever.
So Anyway, total agreement. The 'Dream Sequence' of Flowers Of Evil is one of my favorite live album sides...it just flows so well.
Mountain was my first 'outdoor' concert. Watching the interplay and stage comradery between Felix and Leslie helped me decide to start playing bass.
Someone should write a book about Felix.
Congrats on the bass, it's a beauty!
As far as I've read (no way I could come across one of these IRL, unless in the unlikely hands of a well-off Euro collector/player with the habit of periodically grazing the herd one rare sheep at a time),
the brown pickup in the original Electric Bass from the Fifties was actually a single-coil, albeit a huge coil at that (judging from pics, larger than half of a later mudbucker) and already a sidewinder: the coil was perpendicular to the polepieces, laid to the neckward side of them. It was also used on the earliest, 1958 EB-2, but with a black plastic cover.
A year later the briefly-rechristened EB-1 was gone, replaced by the first (Les Paul DC shaped) EB-0: this and the sophomore-year EB-2 were the first to sport the humbucker, again under black plastic (but polepieces in the middle, of course). They still wore banjo tuners throughout '59.
Now that's a '50s EB, with replaced tuners and bridge but still the original mud-lonecoil!
Back to the late '60s version, it was basically Gibson's first bass reissue of sorts (broadly in the same period as Fender's early, mudbuckerless "Telecaster Bass" being a revamp of the '54-style, body-contoured single-coil P).
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Beautiful bass, I've always wanted one of those but not at the current rates they get for them, I got a couple of other 60's Gibson's that can get that same sound anyway but those are just so cool. I'm a huge Mountain fan too, I've loved them since they first came out. I saw them a few times as a three piece, I did miss the keyboards though but they were still good. Felix was a great player with a great sound. I've still got that LP's at home and just bought a 5 CD pack for the car, I'm all set.
Love it!!! Was just watching some Mountain videos today. Felix had such great stage presence and looked great with that bass.
Loved Love them. Saw them at Woodstock bought first album, saw them two nights in a row Georgetown & George Washington standing next to Felix just off stage. Helped load in those 200s and 100s cabs and heads. At the time a 100s or 200s sized PA was the master for the other two heads each three powered two cabs. That bass roar was unbelievable. Equal parts Sunn, D140s and that Gibson humbucking. Besides the Mountain material we could hear his brilliant writing on the studio side of Cream Wheels of Fire. Strings etc.
I lived right outside NYC when they closed the Fillmore and broadcasted the whole show, J Geils, Allmans, etc, I remember recording it on cassettes and then losing them over the years. Back then Leslie did that whole long guitar solo without a looper, imagine that.
Loved there version of Jack Bruces "Theme from an imaginary western"
cool bass BTW
cool bass BTW
Around the late 60's my brother owned a Gibson Supro bass, large body, double cutaway, don't remember the pickups but, there was a round pad on the back of the bass. I don't know that it was original. ... But, one thing I do remember I can't stand Gibson necks. ...
I could never get comfortable on a Gibson either. I've never owned one. A friend of mine in High School had a Gibson SG and I didn't like the way the tailpiece and the bridge are separate pieces and far apart. I couldn't get the hang of it. I use a lot of palm muting and I couldn't seem to get my hand to rest in a comfortable position to do that. So, after that experience, I didn't even wanna try a Gibson Bass.
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