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My Basses !

#25
Bassmickeyd said:
Hey P.
Thanks for sharing the pics. ... But please keep the Peaveys away from the Fenders. ... We don't don't want any illegitimate's running around.
I went to you photobucket page and saw the 70's P-bass in Mocha brown, very cool, but how did you ever find bell bottoms to match? Also the Playboy amp, what is that? And the fretless Grabber takes me back.
Thanks
BM
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Hi Sherlock Holmes !!!
Yes.. You've found a pearl in my photobucket... I was 18 and was playing in a birthday party in Buenos Aires-Argentina in 1978.
This was the first gig with my first brand new Fender Wallnut bass... Trousers and shoes are not original Fender parts... Sorry !!! The amplifier was a "Robertone" (a local builder that made fender style amps)... I like Peavey Basses too !!! I can't remember how the play-boy rabbit logo was on the box... The other bass you mentioned, wasn't a Gibson Grabber... The natural one was a Gibson "The Ripper Bass". I'm possing in the picture with Rudy Pensa in New York city in 1980... As you could see on photobucket, I owned quite a lot of basses during my long life... I wish you would be able to do the same !!!
Let's share all these picures with all Talk Bass friends:
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#27
MadMan118 said:
Those basses are beautiful.
I'm particularly jealous of your all black fretless jazz.
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I bougth a cheap body from a Argentine factory that copies Fender and added an american Fender "under licence" neck (Ebony Fingerboard)... Seymor Duncan Pickups...All Gotoh parts exept the Fender Pickguard... My Luthier Valerio "Geppetto" Cervi did the rest...
Have a look at the pictures ot its come back to life !!!
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#34
Hi P.
That's right, it's a Ripper. Wasn't it the Grabber bass that had the sliding pickup? Ripper, Grabber, what was the RD department at Gibson thinking in the 1970's. Though Fender wasn't much better. Both companies were bankrupt by the 80's. (the 1990's will be looked upon in the same way for the US auto manufactures)
I think the 1970's were the reason they called it dope.
Gibson basses, I've always felt are an acquired taste. Rick Danko had some luck with them. As did Ralphe Armstrong, though I always found his lines rather muddy sounding in the mix.
Keep those cards and letters coming in.
 
#35
Zoidberg523 said:
Lmao.

I dont think that the problem was with our performance. I think that the problem might have been that there was a Stonehenge monument onstage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf!
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Sorry... I don't understand what you mean..... I mean... yes... I understand each word... But... not the general meaning of the sentence....
I think I'm missing some wonderful joke !!!!
 
#37
Bassmickeyd said:
Hi P.
That's right, it's a Ripper. Wasn't it the Grabber bass that had the sliding pickup? Ripper, Grabber, what was the RD department at Gibson thinking in the 1970's. Though Fender wasn't much better. Both companies were bankrupt by the 80's. (the 1990's will be looked upon in the same way for the US auto manufactures)
I think the 1970's were the reason they called it dope.
Gibson basses, I've always felt are an acquired taste. Rick Danko had some luck with them. As did Ralphe Armstrong, though I always found his lines rather muddy sounding in the mix.
Keep those cards and letters coming in.
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It's because aof Ralphe Armstrong that I wanted a Ripper bass... As you can see... My first Ripper bass is identical to the Ralphe's... In 1978 I saw a video of Ralphe with the Mahavishnu Orchestra... He was amzing... Ralphe and Jaco Pastorius were in the same casting when McLaughlin look for a new bassist for The Mahavishnu... Ralphe got the job because he played fretless... That's because Jaco decided to take out the frets of his 63 Jazz Bass...
I recently found the guy who owns now my first Ripper Bass.
It's en the province of Santa Fe in Argentina... So.. it's not in a good shape but it's still alive !!!!
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