Lee Sklar's double-neck Moonstone

[BadJazz]

I found a whopping one mention of this bass searching TB, so I figured I'd share this pic taken at a Hard Rock Cafe:

 

[OldShark]

Wow, wasn't aware of that instrument (nor of the make), but it's certainly shown in the "Running on empty" booklet, and there's Danny Kortschmar with a similar single neck guitar...
Thanks!

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Instead of a producer switch he has a producer neck. Heh.

 

[Joebone]

Hmm...upper-crust bass entry from a TB member with Ettore Bugatti's mark as his avatar? Interesting!

 

[andare]

I think this is worse looking than a Bongo

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

It looks like a back breaker!

I think it might give the Thunderbird a run for its money on neck dive too!

 

[BadJazz]

So odd seeing him before he turned into Gandalf:

 

[subject42]

Is the small neck in a different tuning, or a standard tuning in a shorter scale?

 

[MindinAction]

Rare species, the Siamese twin giraffe eagle.

 

[Queue]

So odd seeing him before he turned into Gandalf:


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One more knob on the Hard Rock cafe version (and different caps?). I wonder if Lee asked them to add a producer knob?

 

[Tampa Tone]

yeah, I was there two weeks ago.... I live nearby and it always bothers me that you can walk right up to it a touch it. It should be out of reach!!!!!!

 

[embellisher]

Wow, that is one of the strangest basses I have ever seen. Anybody know what's up with the shorter scale neck? Is it tuned like a piccolo or "octave" bass, or what?

 

[micguy]

It looks like a back breaker!

I think it might give the Thunderbird a run for its money on neck dive too!

You tie a helium weather ballon to the top neck, and play the bottom one. Neck dive solved.

One thing people don't get sometimes - a musician does NOT donate/lend an instrument that really works for them to the Hard Rock - the good ones stay in their possession. David Gilmour lent his black strat (after he had pretty much worn it out), but eventually decided he wanted to play it again, so he took it back, and had it refurbished. If you look closely at some of the instruments on the walls of Hard Rocks, many of them are super cheap guitars that have no real tie to the artist, other than they donated something they really don't like to play.

Lee's "Frankestein" dual P isn't on the wall of a Hard Rock because....it's still useful to him.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

You tie a helium weather ballon to the top neck, and play the bottom one. Neck dive solved.

One thing people don't get sometimes - a musician does NOT donate/lend an instrument that really works for them to the Hard Rock - the good ones stay in their possession. David Gilmour lent his black strat (after he had pretty much worn it out), but eventually decided he wanted to play it again, so he took it back, and had it refurbished. If you look closely at some of the instruments on the walls of Hard Rocks, many of them are super cheap guitars that have no real tie to the artist, other than they donated something they really don't like to play.

Lee's "Frankestein" dual P isn't on the wall of a Hard Rock because....it's still useful to him.

I forget the details but Nancy Wilson said that about a guitar in an interview years ago. Something happened with it and she donated it to the Hard Rock. “That was its punishment!”

 

[sdjfoh]

Hideous

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Beautiful

 

[Dr. Cheese]

So odd seeing him before he turned into Gandalf:


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I remember that pic from back in the day. That was when Leland Sklar was young and his back had much less mileage than it has now.

 

[packhowitzer]

meh it's pretty good, but it's no mothman... kidding kidding... it's incredible.

 

[wheresmyric]

Lee posted earlier this year that this was the most beautiful bass he ever had.

I wonder if the middle "pickup" on the long scale is a hum cancel coil like Alembic.

 

[CryingBass]

He could play a pine trunk and kill us all. Not with it, but just saying...