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Fodera Club Part VIII

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Here's a good conversation starter: which bass player (or bass) drew you to Fodera? While I love Vic and his pretty basses (his playing ain't too shabby either, LOL) his tone never really drew me in. It wasn't until I was obsessed with Hiromi and watching Tony Grey's style of playing and hearing his tone when I was like "I definitely need to get me one of those!"
 
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Steveman said:
Here's a good conversation starter: which bass player (or bass) drew you to Fodera? While I love Vic and his pretty basses (his playing ain't too shabby either, LOL) his tone never really drew me in. It wasn't until I was obsessed with Hiromi and watching Tony Grey's style of playing and hearing his tone when I was like "I definitely need to get me one of those!"
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When I was a kid I saw a rerun of SNL with Chaka Khan. AJ was playing one of his earlier double cut 6's. I was completely transfixed by the whole thing, including his bass.
 
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Steveman said:
Here's a good conversation starter: which bass player (or bass) drew you to Fodera? While I love Vic and his pretty basses (his playing ain't too shabby either, LOL) his tone never really drew me in. It wasn't until I was obsessed with Hiromi and watching Tony Grey's style of playing and hearing his tone when I was like "I definitely need to get me one of those!"
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for me? i was walking around namm in 1985. i had just tried to talk to ken smith about his 6-string basses and he was, um, not very customer-savvy.

met joey lauricella. played the 6-string bass he had there. joey was very welcoming. got the information. called them. sold some stuff and got a loan. bought my first 6-stringer. (sold my 4-string frankenfenders and ordered 6-string fretless five months later.)
 
#49
Re: first Fodera I saw. The memory is hazy but I think Percy Jones was the first guy I saw with a Fodera, or maybe a guy named David C. Gross. After that, Anthony for sure. This is many years before Wooten was a visible international figure, even though he had one by 1983.
 
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Steveman said:
Here's a good conversation starter: which bass player (or bass) drew you to Fodera? While I love Vic and his pretty basses (his playing ain't too shabby either, LOL) his tone never really drew me in. It wasn't until I was obsessed with Hiromi and watching Tony Grey's style of playing and hearing his tone when I was like "I definitely need to get me one of those!"
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It was one Gard let me play at Bass Central when he worked there. I never really thought the circumstances would arise for me to get one but, after meeting Vinny at NAMM in 2008, I put it on my wish list and, in 2010, my wish came true (no pun intended).
 
#51
Do you have an hour and a pilot's license?

Essentially there is a complete set of duplicate controls for the piezo bridge pickup, switches for the MIDI outputs...I have worked on the bass several times and I STILL cannot remember everything going on electronically...

j-raj said:
What are the controls on this one?
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Just Thumpin' said:
Do you have an hour and a pilot's license?

Essentially there is a complete set of duplicate controls for the piezo bridge pickup, switches for the MIDI outputs...I have worked on the bass several times and I STILL cannot remember everything going on electronically...
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That bass intrigues me to no end. I't looks like you would need a PhD just to operate it.

At the last NAMM Jerzy Drozd had this killer 6 string single cut that had 7 or 8 knobs and a bunch of switches and buttons... When I asked him what they all do, he whipped out a crumpled up piece of paper that had everything mapped out on it. He said it was complex, so he needed a cheat sheet to remember.
 
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