Les Claypool's new bass

[Mushroo]

Oh Les, you stylish so-and-so!

He's aged well, like a fine cheese.

 

[JIO]

I bet weight had something to do with this design. I bet his old Carl Thompson fretless 6 string weighed about 15 pounds!

Yep - it looks light. I'm a fan of Sperzel tuners -

 

[Coolhandjjl]

I’m digging the tremolo bar.

Vibrato: Up and/or down shifting of pitch. Done by stretching or loosening strings. IOW, the 'whammy bar'.

Tremolo: Rapid/repetitive increase and/or decreases of volume. Done electronically. Think of The Smiths-How Soon is Now intro.

Fender mucked up the original definitions by calling it a tremolo bar on the instrument, and a vibrato knob on their amps.

 

[cataract]

Vibrato: Up and/or down shifting of pitch. Done by stretching or loosening strings. IOW, the 'whammy bar'.

Tremolo: Rapid/repetitive increase and/or decreases of volume. Done electronically. Think of The Smiths-How Soon is Now intro.

Fender mucked up the original definitions by calling it a tremolo bar on the instrument, and a vibrato knob on their amps.

 

[smtp4me]

Is that another Carl Thompson? Looks like it...

 

[Sixgunn]

Take off the sustain kil...... um, whammy, add a string, move the decimal to left an I'm in

 

[chris_b]

I like that LC has his belt buckled up at the side. Out of reach of his nice new bass.

I hate the carelessness of buckle rash on the back of basses.

 

[BrentSimons]

I really like the Fender-esque style of this bass! As much as I like basses with natural finish and visible wood figuring, I think this new Pachyderm bass looks incredible.

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I think Geddy likes it too!

 

[Crowd crusher]

30 frets?

 

[Spacecase]

The headstock design is more functional than aesthetic. There is no need to horse with expensive instrument wall hangers when you can simply hook your bass to any convenient coat hanger, nail, or tree branch.

Looks like you can crack open longneck bottles with it.

 

[RickyWoo]

Is that another Carl Thompson? Looks like it...

No. It's a Maloney.

 

[MCS4]

Fender mucked up the original definitions by calling it a tremolo bar on the instrument . . . .

Yeah, but they did call it that. Thus it now is the correct name for that piece of hardware, regardless of whether it is an accurate description of what it actually does.

 

[TWood97]

I'd love to build a copy of a Pachyderm, one day......

 

[SactoBass]

30 frets?

For when, you know, 29 just isn't enough!

 

[SactoBass]

I really like the Fender-esque style of this bass! As much as I like basses with natural finish and visible wood figuring, I think this new Pachyderm bass looks incredible.

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That's quite the body design on that bass!

 

[Zentner]

I bet weight had something to do with this design. I bet his old Carl Thompson fretless 6 string weighed about 15 pounds!

You've never played a CT have you... haha.

Carl's basses are super thin and lightweight. My 38" 6 String is 9.6lbs and he told me that was the heaviest bass he'd built in years. Some of his 4 strings are incredibly light - just over 5 lbs.

 

[5StringBlues]

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Is he telling the Cheech and Chong "donkey balls" joke?

 

[Bass Man Dan]

You've never played a CT have you... haha.

Carl's basses are super thin and lightweight. My 38" 6 String is 9.6lbs and he told me that was the heaviest bass he'd built in years. Some of his 4 strings are incredibly light - just over 5 lbs.

Nope, I stand corrected. Looks heavy and is heavy are two different things.

 

[India_Sierra]

You've never played a CT have you... haha.

Carl's basses are super thin and lightweight. My 38" 6 String is 9.6lbs and he told me that was the heaviest bass he'd built in years. Some of his 4 strings are incredibly light - just over 5 lbs.

Interesting, I though the Rainbow bass was retired because of it's massive weight. Claypool has favoured smaller, lighter instruments for a long while now.

 

[scuzzy]

I love it. But I like weird stuff. Would have loved to have been hanging with him and geddy in that pic up there. Maybe I would get a Maloney to hold too?


Oh.....Primus sucks