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LAKLAND OWNERS GROUP #43

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looks like a bass graveyard!

kinda gives me shivers just to look at it!

Sorry Tim...best wishes and thoughts/prayers for some sort of recovery.....

thanks guys. it's crazy--lot's of destruction. hollowbodys are all really ugly. even the solidbody laklands all have warped necks, brown stains from the river/sewage water soaking into them, and cracked bodys (not finish--the wood!!) from the wood swelling up. drying out now just to make them a little less gross, they're all a total loss...

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Gus:

nice post! not senseless in ANY way!

I know what you mean about hearing the wrong/missed notes TOO well.....played he new dual J today and I was pretty nice in the mix so each "error" was truly heard/missed!

At the end of the last (exit) song (ending in a B) I did a slap on the open B and hit it a little harder than I thought....windows shattered and car alarms went off! (OK - not really BUT it was massive....and kind of out of place....need more control over my slappage!)

So we had a rehearsal yesterday, and it was the first one since I adjusted some things: The 55--01/57 is now a P/J with the BigSplit in the back. I also put some Fodera Nickels on it. I'm also running a Zoom B9.1ut (12AU7) and a QBalls in the effects loop of a bridged Carvin BX1200 into one of the LoPhat 2-way 1x12's. I also had the JO5/55-60 CS with Lakland Stainlesses on it.

Holy Cow!

We're a trio (for now) doing original Jam-Band-esque type stuff, and both basses sounded perfect. Every clam and missed note I played could be heard so clearly and cleanly, with each bass imparting its own distinct character to it.

The P/J is the main player, and it is just so freakin' versatile with those 2 pickups in it with nickels. It sits sooooo well in the mix. These 2 basses are a very complementary pair, with the the Chi's growling away and the NP5 doing that P thing with a little J rolled in for snap. I highly recommend this mod...

We weren't all that loud, but the amp and cab seemed onto be moving so much air that I could feel it as much as hear it.

I can't wait to complete the trifecta with a flats wearin' LOG bass!

Sorry for a somewhat pointless post, but I felt I had to share...
 
sadly - insurance will, most likely, take the damaged goods...
they want to make sure you don't repair them anyways or sell them.....95% of the time they WILL end up in the landfill, but they MAY sell some of the "less damaged" goods to repair shops etc....

keep a close eye on those pictures...if a similar bass shows up on evil-bay or in a local pawn shop in the near future...beware....

Well..once the insurance does their thing, I would make some sort of wall piece out of the basses.
 
Keep the faith...they seem to come up used in the classifieds semi-often!

you will have a time when availability and cash will be there at the same time.....when is not certain, but it will happen...then you can become an adict like the rest of us.... :D

I'm GASsing heavily for a 55-02... But I can't afford it right now. I'm doubting to sell my Fender Jazz V for one.
 
Great bass!!! You'll soon find that you won't want to trade it, that you'll just want to ADD a JO5 (or LOG BG5!!!!), lol.

My multiple Lakland Collection will probably need to wait until people are paying me to be an engineer as apposed to now, when I'm paying to learn how to be an engineer. Being a poor married college student leads to a small bass arsenal. That being said, when I graduate, I already plan to ask for a Lakland for my graduation present from someone ( some may say that it's a lot to ask for, but considering I'm paying for my school, and my parents are paying for my sisters private christian college education, they should be able to swing it). I've got a couple years to decide :D

I can't wait till I get that first paycheck out of school and we're still living on $30K a year. Bass Heaven.
 
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