For Stanley Clarke!

I received as phone call today from a good friend of mine Harold Goode (who also Produces for Marcus Miller) about a new Video on Stanley's Website with my son Jon playing as the entire Ceremony was Video Taped. He helped me locate it on line and told me, "Jon sounds GOOD!".

Here's the Clip (@8:44, scroll down to the 'Video') of my son Jon playing Bass at the Doctorate Ceremony for Stanley Clarke with the UArts Ensemble 'Transfusion'. Gerald Veasley plays the solo on Stage but Jon plays 'The Bass' and bends and snaps a few notes of his own down in the Pit.

http://stanleyclarke.com/magazine/current_edition.html

 

Well, that Bass has some unusual history as to it's birth. It's a regular CR4M model Bass that is about 12 years old now. This is the only Pic I could find to show as the Vid pic is quite small;


This Smith was made from a Neck and Body made in two different years, each rejected from production for different reasons. The quilted maple body from about 1995-96 had some dark grain lines on the edges from natural growth of the tree so I rejected and replaced it during production. The Neck made about a year later for a similar model 4-string had a hairline 'check' (split) behind the truss rod route. I rejected that from production as well and replaced it. Then I remembered we had a body lying around that was perfect except for some cosmetic dark grain lines and decided to repair the Neck and used it with that body to make up an office-only demo Bass. One that would never be sold but always be available to be tired by visitors. Jon was only about 9 yrs old then so I kept it in-house till he got a little older and needed a better Bass of his own a few years down the road. That's the basic story. Sorry for the rant but the answer to the question is not always a simple one. This is still his main and favorite Bass out of several he owns.

 

Your 1st bass was a Hagstrom? So was mine. A Hagstrom II in black with a tiger pattern lined case. I got it around 1966 or '67, used.