LAKLAND OWNERS GROUP #44

[jarrhead]

well....NOW you DO have a number....in advance....you can use it but you have to 'rent" it for $0.02 until the Lakie actually arrives!!

He can always take my number of 339 once i leave.

 

[76Dub]

I would grab it but I want that natural/maple

 

[Luke.Walton]

Hey Markus, just finished listening to the interview. Well done, you came across really well

 

[jarrhead]

Nobody seems to like Cherry/Rosewood!

I've gotten one PM interested and three tell me they'd get it if not for cosmetics. I need to raise my price I guess.

 

[MarkusBass]

Hey Markus, just finished listening to the interview. Well done, you came across really well

Thanks Luke! My voice sounds a little funky because I'm on a cell phone, but oh well!

 

[MarkusBass]

Nobody seems to like Cherry/Rosewood!

I've gotten one PM interested and three tell me they'd get it if not for cosmetics. I need to raise my price I guess.

I really like that combo.

 

[MarkusBass]

He can always take my number of 339 once i leave.

WEAK!!!

 

[Luke.Walton]

Thanks Luke! My voice sounds a little funky because I'm on a cell phone, but oh well!

Well I wasn't expecting some deep voiced Ukranian or anything

Cell phones do that to people to suppose. If I was American I'd probably love the book (don't take that the wrong way ) congrats on a great job

 

[MarkusBass]

Well I wasn't expecting some deep voiced Ukranian or anything

Cell phones do that to people to suppose. If I was American I'd probably love the book (don't take that the wrong way ) congrats on a great job

He he he! Thanks man!

 

[chrisp2u]

C'mon man you know me!

So, you're getting a Bongo?
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[Bass.]

I know that 1998/99 Lakies (Barts) sound VERY different than the newer Barts I have played...not sure who changed the sound (or IF the change was "meant to happen") but there IS a big difference....

I like the early Barts much better...they sound closer to the LH3 to me...

man!!! Could I really be so close?!

My lakie's birthday is 11-28 of 2000
I just took her all the way apart so pat can make his magic

Based on experience is the bart/lh3 system a pole based pickup or "blade"?

 

[roadkill2309]

Don't know why she wouldn't like the book. She's American still right?

It's a nationally syndicated show...on 300 stations. I put a link to to the interview on the home page: Link Removed

Good interview, dude. You came off really well.

Though I *do* have to mention that technically speaking, *this* is red, white and awesome:

 

[MarkusBass]

He he he! NICE!!! Thanks man!

 

[sitonmybass]

congrats!!!

sounds GREAT! and you have a GREAT wife as well!

peace:

Doug

Thanks; yes she's wonderful.

Here's a Bass Central pic of a black/rosewood 55-01 just like my new one.

 

[sitonmybass]

uh.....she LET you return your wedding present???? I would not even have gone there...but if she was cool about it....I GUESS it was OK...

she also let you sell your FIRST anniversary present????? oh well.....she must really be in love.....

At least she bought Laklands twice!

She was very understanding about it. She had reservations about buying me the Skyline Osborn 5 as a wedding present because she knows of my preference for active basses.

Beaver Felton, Bass Central's owner and I have been personal friends for years. Our band's frontman used to be Beaver's frontman "back-in-the-day."

My band had been playing at Pleasure Island in Orlando's Downtown Disney for years. On the day of one of our Disney shows, my wife (who was then my fiance) and I stopped into Bass Central and I spotted a beautiful natural/white mint pickguard/rosewood Skyline Joe Osborn 5 and fell in love with it when I played it. We left and I dropped her off at her apartment. I went to set-up/soundcheck prior to the show and she shows up carrying a Lakland bass case and presents it to me. I open it up and there was the Skyline Osborn 5; I was floored.

I kept it for a few months and one day I went back to Bass Central and A/B'd it with a 55-01 natural/rosewood and preferred the 55-01. I'd had it too long for it to be a return but I traded it for the 55-01 which from that point on we considered to be the wedding present bass. Just last week I sold it to a good friend of mine and I replaced it with my new 55-01 black/rosewood (I like it in black better.) As long as I have a 55-01 my wife's okay with it.

The first anniversary present was a 55-01 natural lined fretless which I loved but didn't end up using very much so she was also supportive in my selling it to get an EBMM Bongo 5 single H.

Here's a few pics from Pleasure Island in Orlando's Downtown Disney which unfortunately has since closed down. I love the second pic which shows the large screen behind me while I'm center-stage fronting the band. In these pics I'm playing my original EBMM Bongo 5 HH.

 

[GregC]

when you said you talked to pat were you thinking about only getting your headstock painted or changing it up, body wise.

I'm going in to see him on monday

I picked teal metallic... definitely going with the matching headstock which i think I'll love.

I hear he's a great guy and from the email impressions I've gathered I think this is going to be a great choice going through him. I live only few miles from his shop in Van Nuys and on my Birthday Ill get my bass started!!! sooooooo pumped

Lucky man! Everything I've heard about Pat has been great. My three US Laklands all have wonderful finishes.

 

[GregC]

Pat is done with his magic.....Carl will have it by Monday.....I should have pics up sometime next week

Woot! I'm looking forward to it.

 

[GregC]

Don't know why she wouldn't like the book. She's American still right?

It's a nationally syndicated show...on 300 stations. I put a link to to the interview on the home page: Link Removed

Nice job on the interview, Markus! I've done some radio stuff over the phone for work, and it takes some getting used to.

Also, nice to see the host had a non-crazy person on his show for once.

 

[GregC]

no reason...

Laaaaaaaaammmmmmmme.

 

[GregC]

She was very understanding about it. She had reservations about buying me the Skyline Osborn 5 as a wedding present because she knows of my preference for active basses.

Beaver Felton, Bass Central's owner and I have been personal friends for years. Our band's frontman used to be Beaver's frontman "back-in-the-day."

My band had been playing at Pleasure Island in Orlando's Downtown Disney for years. On the day of one of our Disney shows, my wife (who was then my fiance) and I stopped into Bass Central and I spotted a beautiful natural/rosewood Skyline Joe Osborn 5 and fell in love with it when I played it. We left and I dropped her off at her apartment. I went to set-up/soundcheck prior to the show and she shows up carrying a Lakland bass case and presents it to me. I open it up and there was the Skyline Osborn 5; I was floored.

I kept it for a few months and one day I went back to Bass Central and A/B'd it with a 55-01 natural/rosewood and preferred the 55-01. I'd had it too long for it to be a return but I traded it for the 55-01 which from that point on we considered it to be the wedding present bass.

The first anniversary present was a 55-01 natural lined fretless which I loved but didn't end up using very much so she was also supportive in my selling it to get a EBMM Bongo 5 single H.

Here's a few pics from Pleasure Island in Orlando's Downtown Disney which unfortunately has since closed down. I love the second pic which shows the large screen behind me while I'm center-stage fronting the band. In these pics I'm playing my original EBMM Bongo 5 HH.

Nice story! I lived in Winter Garden in the early 90s, I used to drive down through the orange groves (they smelled so good at night) to Pleasure Island with my ex to catch movies there. I'm surprised the place closed.