I didn't know Ampeg made basses

[themarshall]

Don't forget this badboy:

HAIL SATAN

 

[Rich Terry]

If nothing else they made some HEAVY basses.
You have to give it to them for different also.

 

[Rich Terry]

Just found this on Ebay

 

[bluesblaster]

Didnt that come with the Barbie funhouse ?

 

[Rich Terry]

Didnt that come with the Barbie funhouse ?

You're right, it's ugly and why pink sparkle I don't know. This is one of the MIJ reissue shape of the Dan Armstrong with a different pup and bridge set up. Don't really know what they were trying to do but it's not working.

 

[MeLikeDaLowNote]

To put in nicely: Ampeg consistently made basses that don't appeal to my eyes.

 

[bluesblaster]

Thats OK, its not everyones cup a tea, we understand. Some of us think there the cats pajamas , not that thing in post#23 mind you , but a scroll bass is a beautiful thing to some.

 

[BassistNATE]

Those headstocks!....

 

[jd56hawk]

I've always liked the Dan Armstrong clear lucite model ever since I saw Bill Wyman playing one...but they're even cooler in smoked clear.

 

[west al]

I remember when the Dan Armstrong basses came out. Beautiful basses.

 

[Rich Terry]

I've always liked the Dan Armstrong clear lucite model ever since I saw Bill Wyman playing one...but they're even cooler in smoked clear.

The only problem with the reissue is that big slot above the pup. I know
it makes it easier to change it out but ugly.

JMO

 

[Rugmaster]

I never knew they made bass guitars with upright headstocks.

 

[LordRyan]

Among Ampeg's first products going back to the late 40's was an upright Bass pickup called the Amplified Peg from which the company name was derived.

 

[JimmyM]

The amp behind him - B15N? Blurry in that pic, wondering whether it's the same model I grew up on (and now have a replacement downstairs). Looks like it might be an earlier model though. I did see video of him on stage, I think it might've been The Last Waltz, even, using the exact same model though.

Rick used a B-15S. 60w, which is double the B-15N.

 

[Veldar]

The bassist from the locust uses one so they must be good.

 

[Spirit of Ox]

Geezer Butler used a Dan Armstrong on the earlier albums. I think some of Paranoid and Master of Reality.

 

[MaddAnthony_59]

Don't forget this badboy:

I found one of these in a pawn Shop in Charleston, SC in 1976. I paid $199 for it, case included. It had a Tragic Life, one which I won't go into now...

 

[MaddAnthony_59]

Geezer Butler used a Dan Armstrong on the earlier albums. I think some of Paranoid and Master of Reality.

Volume 4. Canadian Customs destroyed his P-Bass looking for drugs. Not sure why he went with that one, but it looked cool on stage.

 

[Bass Master General]

Dan Armstrong: to me, the most beautiful guitar/bass design out there, even the wooden ones. The body shape is just perfect, love the symmetry of the silhouette that is only broken when you go all the way up to the headstock. And the double cutaway that actually goes all the way to the highest fret. They dropped the ball with the wooden reissue of the guitar by putting a 2nd P/U at the neck position, making the neck unstable, but otherwise... I love it!

 

[Spirit of Ox]

Volume 4. Canadian Customs destroyed his P-Bass looking for drugs. Not sure why he went with that one, but it looked cool on stage.

That's right, his P bass was destroyed at customs. I wasn't sure if it was before or after Paranoid and Master. I did read in an interview that he will never travel with his vintage basses anymore.