hi, i'm john...

[john turner]

John, today is my birthday. You aren't using that old Jazz bass anymore, so you can send that my way. Or the Ultimelt - I've gased over that thing for years.

I'm looking forward to hearing some new music from you with these new axes. What's the deal, a couple of knuckleheads call you some names and you quit making music altogether?

heh happy birthday bro! and yeah, i hear ya about the music. it's comin'

 

[john turner]

Nice Family John , Are you going to go with a matching headstock on the Low End ?

of course. i'm pretty sure all the low ends come that way standard.

 

[john turner]

I cant play as well as you so my basses serve me well with my little bass pod xt.

Realy it dosent matter If you can enjoy high end Basses or deal with low end ones, do you love playing Bass?

Its really as simple as that.

it's all good, bro

 

[john turner]

Friggin sweet collection John. That doubler is absolutely insane...love it, although it has a few too many strings for me, as do all of em.:\ What is the most played of them?

lately my two 8 strings have been getting a lot of play time, and the ritter. in all, though, the first two i got, back in 93 and 94, the ones on the floor in the first pic, probably have been played the most.

 

[john turner]

Seven strings = more love. Nice set of axes.
How does the tone on the ritter compare to
the conklins? What is the fingerboard wood?

thanks. the ritter sounds very much like a composite-necked instrument - very even and punchy, not quite as woody as the other basses. i'm pretty sure the fingerboard on it is ebony, with the mop inlay.

 

[dumbassist]

Hi John!

 

[john turner]

Very nice, can you play them??

what is this "play" you speak of?

 

[john turner]

lol. nice

That LEJ 7 looks like it's gonna be a BEAST!! How long till you get her?

i'm thinking about 3 or 4 months, according to what brian said. it's going to be fun waiting on a bass again - it's how i spent most of the 90's, waiting on something to show up heh.

 

[.matthew e wengerd.]

i won't be impressed until you actually produce a new family pic. i've been seeing thay same darn picture around these parts since i started paying attention.

 

[john turner]

John, I am totally in awe! Or is that...ahhhhh.....
I don't mean to pry, and I'm not asking for prices, I just would like a little short history;
How long did it take to put that collection together, anyway?

Again.....ahhhhhhhhhh.....

thanks. got the fretless on the floor in '93 (serial # 16). the fretted next to it, '94. the next was the doubleneck, '96. from then on it was pretty much a conklin a year until 2001, with the white hollow body being the last conklin i got (wedding gift from my wife) which i got in 2002.

got the ritter in the beginning of 05, right after the namm show.

 

[john turner]

i won't be impressed until you actually produce a new family pic. i've been seeing thay same darn picture around these parts since i started paying attention.

heh yeah, i know, it's sad really. need to take a new picture. gonna when the jazz7 shows up.

 

[john turner]

BTW, beautiful LEJ7 John I've been seriously eyeballing it's all-white cousin for a long time. It'd be great to hear your opinion of it when you get time .....

thanks ed if that bass is al caldwell's, i've played it. awesome instrument - i've played the black pickguard black 7 that is on the site too, very nice. they're jazz basses, with extra strings - everything you'd expect from the instrument, and more. it's really cool - when i used to play 4's back in the late 80's and early 90's BC (before conklin heh) i used to live on my 78 jazz bass, so playing one of those pups was a total deja vu for me.

 

[5intheface]

To quote the great Jack Bruce, "if it can't be played on four strings than it shouldn't be played at all!"

 

[Marlat]

To quote the great Jack Bruce, "if it can't be played on four strings than it shouldn't be played at all!"

From the Jack Bruce website:

Jack Bruce took a liking early on to small, short-scale electric basses. One of his first was the Fender Bass VI, a 6-string bass tuned EADGBE like a guitar, but one octave lower. Jack recorded most of Fresh Cream with this bass, before moving to the classic Gibson EB-3, the sound of which he made famous during Cream's live tours.

In 1976, Jack moved to the fretless bass. After stints with some Aria and Spector long-scale basses, he found Warwick, a German producer of high quality electric basses. Jack made some suggestions for improving the balance and pickups, and Warwick produced the instrument he now uses. The Warwick Jack Bruce Signature Model is a modified fretless 4-string Thumb Bass featuring MEC active pickups and LED position markers on the side of the neck. Jack strings his instrument with S.I.T. medium gauge roundwound strings (.050 - .105). Jack also uses some Warwick 5-string basses for recording, though he doesn't use them onstage.

 

[gottawalk]

thanks. got the fretless on the floor in '93 (serial # 16). the fretted next to it, '94. the next was the doubleneck, '96. from then on it was pretty much a conklin a year until 2001, with the white hollow body being the last conklin i got (wedding gift from my wife) which i got in 2002.

got the ritter in the beginning of 05, right after the namm show.

Thanks. I'm quite, and TOO impressed. Lovely "family" you've got there. Take care and enjoy!, (which I'm sure you do!!!)

 

[mark beem]

From the Jack Bruce website: Jack Bruce took a liking early on to small, short-scale electric basses. One of his first was the Fender Bass VI, a 6-string bass tuned EADGBE like a guitar, but one octave lower. Jack recorded most of Fresh Cream with this bass, before moving to the classic Gibson EB-3, the sound of which he made famous during Cream's live tours.

In 1976, Jack moved to the fretless bass. After stints with some Aria and Spector long-scale basses, he found Warwick, a German producer of high quality electric basses. Jack made some suggestions for improving the balance and pickups, and Warwick produced the instrument he now uses. The Warwick Jack Bruce Signature Model is a modified fretless 4-string Thumb Bass featuring MEC active pickups and LED position markers on the side of the neck. Jack strings his instrument with S.I.T. medium gauge roundwound strings (.050 - .105). Jack also uses some Warwick 5-string basses for recording, though he doesn't use them onstage.

Hey, 5intheface..

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[RAM]

and these are my basses

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and soon...

John, that's a really nice...





pussy cat!

 

[Fretless5verfan]

Hey, 5intheface..

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HA!

 

[steve21]

John, what an awesome collection of Conklins.


You've got what is very possibly the coolest Ritter ever.


If you ever decide you don't wanna keep one of those 4-bangers holla at your boy!

 

[jeff_bass28]

yeah, it's a benevente-made low end jazz, from our own brian barrett.

check it out...

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Looks a bit phony (it's the edgelines around the pickguard edges, strings, fingerboard)...is this just a photoshop mock-up untill the real thing is done? Or am I just looking at wrong?