Lane Poor Bass!! What the FFFFFUUUUUDGE???

[mmbongo]

Good Lord never have I seen anything like this.....this....Volkswagon Thing of a bass guitar.

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[Kwesi]

At least his pickups are nice.

 

[sumgruuvz]

looks like something i would use on the lawn

 

[jmattbassplaya]

I think my girlfriend has one of those...

 

[kanonfodr]

I'd consider playing it if it came in a 5 string. And Red.

Peace,
Greg

 

[VitalSigns]

Look at those frets! So weird..

 

[Calaverasgrande]

I guess he also didnt like the hand flying off the end of the neck effect you get with headless basses. I remember the first timeI played my friend Nando's Steinberger I played a few middle of the neck runs and then went to the lower octave... and my hand was grabbing air. Didnt realize I relied on the head of the bass to stop my hand.

 

[mmbongo]

Found more info:
http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2010/05/lane-poor-minima-headless-bass.html

I don't understand the frets!

 

[BigRedBassPlayer]

I think my girlfriend has one of those...

Am I the only one who got a kick out of this?

 

[yodedude2]

i dig that bass!

 

[Hopkins]

If I had to guess, I would think maybe they are going for a fretless sound but with more precise intonation.

 

[dbd1963]

That could sound like the ultimate bass - I'm still not playing it.

 

[suddenlysane]

Am I the only one who got a kick out of this?

Nope, it completely caught me off guard. I was so intrigued with the bass itself that the comment actually brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.........I should have seen it coming but I didn't.

That is one odd bass but now I want one!

 

[spade2you]

If I had to guess, I would think maybe they are going for a fretless sound but with more precise intonation.

That is trippy. Wow.

 

[derg]

Holy moly!! I have a weird attraction to this.

 

[VitalSigns]

I feel like your right arm would knock it out of tune.

 

[Baird6869]

Simple reason why Lane Poor made this..... The dude was bat$@&# crazy.

Great PU though, but man is he out there!

 

[monkeyfinger]

I worked at Providence Music in Providence RI in the mid eighties. Lane Poor had a shop in nearby Fall River, Ma. I remember the day that he came by with his new invention, the bass you see in the pictures above. Lane was as eccentric as his instruments. A trully admirable and amiable guy. Of course, we didn't buy anything from him because we knew the chance of selling it would be about 0. It was really marketed as a cross-over instrument, and a fine one at that. There was just no market for it in out area. Too bad Lane just seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. I would love to know what became of him.

 

[sevdog]

That looks freaking awesome. I want one.

 

[curbowkid]

I worked at Providence Music in Providence RI in the mid eighties. Lane Poor had a shop in nearby Fall River, Ma. I remember the day that he came by with his new invention, the bass you see in the pictures above. Lane was as eccentric as his instruments. A trully admirable and amiable guy. Of course, we didn't buy anything from him because we knew the chance of selling it would be about 0. It was really marketed as a cross-over instrument, and a fine one at that. There was just no market for it in out area. Too bad Lane just seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. I would love to know what became of him.

I live right near by. I kinda wish he was still around, I want one of these strange beasts. Who would have ever thought there was a scalloped fretless?