Except maybe that picture of him playing an Carvin bass?
I have no idea if Jaco owned that thing, or if it was just a prop for a photo shoot, but an old Carvin bass that is.
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How come we all don't play Carvin instruments & amps/cabs?
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Except maybe that picture of him playing an Carvin bass?
I have no idea if Jaco owned that thing, or if it was just a prop for a photo shoot, but an old Carvin bass that is.
This the one?
Yup, at least from the same gig. The picture in his biography shows all of him though, that one is cropped. It is an LB60 or whatever they had back then, with a 2x2 Gibson type headstock. He was playing with Mike Stern at the time. It wasn't a posed picture for the endorsement, it was him in a bar in NYC somewhere (sitting on a stool, which is why there is no strap).
I have seen the full picture, it is a Carvin bass. Believe what you want, but that is a fact.
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Reason #12 for hating Carvins:
Carvin made Jaco play a Carvin bass and amp at Bar 55 in New York one day, then made him pose for a picture at gunpoint. Then Carvin didn't even bother showing the uncropped photo of him with both products in their ads.
My bad, it wasn't the same picture from the book, but was the same gig I think. Here is the one from the book. It is clearly a Carvin bass.
Here is one just like it:
Here is one just like it:
Yes! Carvin bullied Jaco, booooo
In all seriousness though, couldn't they have at least shown the headstock?? Or the decal on the amp?!?!
Nice! I'd like to check out something like that but with a single coil bridge pickup, and maybe a 3 + 2 headstock. Did you do the routing & pickup installation yourself?
It would be $1708, actually.
I don't know of any other "custom shop" that would produce an instrument like that for less. A base model B40, passive with standard paint, costs $699, add the case and shipping and you are still under $800. So, yes, there is quite a range of prices. This B40 looks pretty traditional to me.
But, again, everyone likes something different. I just think a lot of people are only familiar with one or two Carvin models and pickup choices, and think that represents the whole brand.
That picture is from the later years, long after he was known for playing Fender Js.
Since it was the dark years, it is certainly possible that he was only playing it because he lost the Fender and couldn't afford a bass and Carvin gave it to him for free, but regardless he did play Carvin for whatever reason.
I'll jump in and say what I have to say 'cause no one cares whatI have to say in this old thread :scowl: but,
I can see my comments on the internet so that's cool 'cause it's on the internet and THAT make it real
Anywho, I liked getting the catalogues in the mail and their take back in the day on basses I actually thought they were cool.
But at the same time I thought why doesn't this stuff sell like Fender? I have an old 62 Fender P bass and I love that neck.
I think most of the old timers may remember them. A litter wider than a Jazz but thin front to back.
Years latter about 1996, I wanted a five string. Searched out everything I could get my hands on and nothing felted right to me I guess I was too used to the comfy feel of the old P bass and a five string at the same time.
Until I went on vacation with family to Disneyland
and visited a Carvin store after I bugged the hell out of the LA Guitar Center folks.
I feel in love with the Bunny Burnel basses. Not exact but, very very close to whatever I was looking for in a neck.
Wide spacing, nice old school Fender type feel to the neck and a five string and the pick up spacing.
Bridge pickup in the 60's space and the neck pickup in the bridge position of a P bass split pickup.
Which to my ear has more bark to it than the back position of a P bass pickup.
Since then I have tried a lot of basses, not everything and not any Laklands or Sadowsky's, just whatever the local GC has or our very own Apple Music ( Hi Kelly Howard ) So until then, this is THE ONE.
Now back to whatever was goin' on before I got here
I can see my comments on the internet so that's cool 'cause it's on the internet and THAT make it real
Anywho, I liked getting the catalogues in the mail and their take back in the day on basses I actually thought they were cool.
But at the same time I thought why doesn't this stuff sell like Fender? I have an old 62 Fender P bass and I love that neck.
I think most of the old timers may remember them. A litter wider than a Jazz but thin front to back.
Years latter about 1996, I wanted a five string. Searched out everything I could get my hands on and nothing felted right to me I guess I was too used to the comfy feel of the old P bass and a five string at the same time.
Until I went on vacation with family to Disneyland
and visited a Carvin store after I bugged the hell out of the LA Guitar Center folks.
I feel in love with the Bunny Burnel basses. Not exact but, very very close to whatever I was looking for in a neck.
Wide spacing, nice old school Fender type feel to the neck and a five string and the pick up spacing.
Bridge pickup in the 60's space and the neck pickup in the bridge position of a P bass split pickup.
Which to my ear has more bark to it than the back position of a P bass pickup.
Since then I have tried a lot of basses, not everything and not any Laklands or Sadowsky's, just whatever the local GC has or our very own Apple Music ( Hi Kelly Howard ) So until then, this is THE ONE.
Now back to whatever was goin' on before I got here
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