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Larry Graham's first electric bass
- Thread starter Marc PG
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I'm curious. Well, not nearly as much as you are though - 2/3 of your posts are new threads... Are you writing a book by any chance?
They're rebranded Teisco basses.
I'm wondering how hard it will be to find more information.
I'm wondering how hard it will be to find more information.
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I once (late 1960s) had a St. George electric guitar. It looked exactly like this one:
They were inexpensive, entry-level instruments imported from Japan. Mostly sold in pawn shops in the area where I lived at the time. Mine was usable, but certainly nothing special.
Ooooh: I was able to dig up a YouTube video of a guy guy one just like it:
They were inexpensive, entry-level instruments imported from Japan. Mostly sold in pawn shops in the area where I lived at the time. Mine was usable, but certainly nothing special.
Ooooh: I was able to dig up a YouTube video of a guy guy one just like it:
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I believe this bass is a St. George. Can't say whether or not it's the exact model Graham had:
Billy C. Farlow, vocalist for Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, used a St. George Guitar one time when I saw them play live back during the late 1960s. Since it wasn't plugged in, I believe it was pretty much just a flashy stage prop.
I am happy you noticed and asked!
The information I ask for is for my high school final research work. I'm writing about the electric bass and how it shaped rock music through the decades, from its introduction in 50's rock and roll to nowadays rock.
I'm sorry for my "seventeen-threds-per-day" postings... and also if my writing is not the best (since I'm not an english speaker).
Thanks a lot for all of the answers and information given, really. It is very valuable for me.
(Neither am I, and back in high school I certainly wasn't as good an L2 writer as you are.)
Well, this explains a lot. I'd noticed some amount of post-OP interaction on your part, which pointed to genuine interest as opposed to idle asking; nor could you be definitely accused of not using the search function: you probably have been, just not spent hours and hours sifting every result. This, and the fact you don't post on others' threads, probably just means you're too busy writing your research paper. Good luck with it!
Had a weird dream a few nights ago in which I was playing a St George brand modern style 6 string bass, doing some off the cuff improv. It played a lot like a higher end Ibanez. This woman came up to me (unnamed) and started saying "Who are you? You can really play!"
Hey, you're doing pretty well writing in English, a heck of a lot better than most of us would be writing in any other language.
Keep asking the questions and all the best with your high school final. (What country is home to you if you don't mind me asking, though don't say if you don't want to.)
All the best.
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Yep, a St George. (same hs badge as the guitar posted right before yours) Anthony George had a big influence on the early guitar designs of Fujigen Gakki. Mr George visited Fujigen several times during the early '60s , and sold several Fujigen models through his 'George's Music' stores in NY and CA. I'll guess that bass was made post '63 as it reflects the gen 1 T-bird ['63-'65]
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- 221,980
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
I saw them twice in the early '70s and it was a prop. What a great band that was!
Yes! And I was very lucky when I started to work this summer to know this place. I mean, I didn't know about this kind of forums, and it has been a surprise that so many people are as interested as me (or more) in bass, and of course, know a lot of stuff. I love talking with people about bass because it's there where you start to know a lot of fascinating information. My work started thanks to two books (because books give you an important foundation you can't have within the Internet), but has been completed with a lot of interesting information that adds better points of view thanks to you and all the people in Talk Bass.
Hey, you're doing pretty well writing in English, a heck of a lot better than most of us would be writing in any other language.
Keep asking the questions and all the best with your high school final. (What country is home to you if you don't mind me asking, though don't say if you don't want to.)
All the best.
I'm from Catalonia. I live near Barcelona.
