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#61
Gizmot said:
I'd be more impressed if the bridge were more solidly anchored
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Hmm. The bridge is an original Leo Quan Badass. The first one. The thick one. The neck is one piece and goes all the way through the body. The bridge goes through that veneer, inset, and is anchored into the neck. Dunno if it can get much more solid. Actually, it was a huge part of the design; that massive bridge being anchored into the neck.
 
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evilfirbolg said:
You need to look closer. I think the other fella made the same mistake. There's an ebony veneer on either side of the curly maple veneer and a full mahogany one piece body under all that.
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Here's a look at the back side to hopefully clear up any confusion. The body is one huge piece of mahogany. The black pieces and the lighter colored lightning bolt on the front are ebony and curly maple veneers. The neck is one big piece of white rock maple that runs through the body to the bridge and the bridge is anchored to it. The neck also has aluminum honeycomb running its length on either side of the truss rod for strength. It is 36" scale fretless with an ebony fingerboard. If you look close you'll see a circular piece of embedded wood in the tail, that is a cover over a piece of lead that levels the bass perfectly. No matter where you put it, it stays. It is perfectly balanced.
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I was just on a thread where someone said his Lull PJ bass was as modern as you could get. You had him beat years ago.

I would have figured out a way to fold the thing, so the case would be manageable. But i's still cool.
 
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#73
Gyver said:
Just watched both of the videos, you guys were superb!
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Thank you. I am very proud of that band and what we did. There were two full length LPs and a live EP produced. People have uploaded pretty much all of it to places like YouTube if you wish to dig further. After it imploded in around 93 they did some reunion shows without me and put out another record with an old friend of mine on bass but it was never the same, but all that is also online. I like to say that we forged the blade but didn't make the cut. We only got about seven and a half of our fifteen minutes. But there's a tight and loyal group of people out there that remember us, that made us. It was a wonderful time.
 
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evilfirbolg said:
Here's a look at the back side to hopefully clear up any confusion. The body is one huge piece of mahogany. The black pieces and the lighter colored lightning bolt on the front are ebony and curly maple veneers. The neck is one big piece of white rock maple that runs through the body to the bridge and the bridge is anchored to it. The neck also has aluminum honeycomb running its length on either side of the truss rod for strength. It is 36" scale fretless with an ebony fingerboard. If you look close you'll see a circular piece of embedded wood in the tail, that is a cover over a piece of lead that levels the bass perfectly. No matter where you put it, it stays. It is perfectly balanced.
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You also got me with the original pic. The back view made me go back and review it! Your vids make me realise that I was just ahead of my time with some of my dance moves. Never did get into your style of music but it still sounds great. Well done! I do like the bass, but, it's not my style. Though, if you ever feel like giving it a new home I'll happily take it! :D (no, that is not an offer to purchase :D )
 
#78
Surely_Bassy said:
You mentioned a drum/bass combo that played in Austin—any links? If it's anywhere as hard and as good as Agony Column, I must hear it! :D
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Well...it's different. We were both kinda just doing this for fun. I wrote about 100 songs and just had to put em somewhere. We also would just bust out versions of songs we liked for whatever reason. Sometimes we'd have "stump the band" night and people would just yell song titles at us and we'd fake it. If we couldn't play it we had to buy beer. But I can fake my way through any song. We were mainly just having fun and heckling each other. Definitely not as polished or thought out as Agony Columm. We made this recording of about 15 songs rather hurriedly and there's some things I'd do differently but here is that duo...

Listen to Crow, an album by evilfirbolg on #SoundCloud
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