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Roscoe Club

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Active Reasoner said:
Here's a Musician's Institute concert featuring the Yellow Jackets from 2007. Nice Jimmy Haslip solo at 4:00. The Musician's Institute YouTube channel has been releasing full concert videos for a while now. I highly recommend checking them out.
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If you're on the Roscoe thread and haven't listened to Jimmy and the Yellowjackets...shame on you.

Huge influence. I was fortunate to have a lesson and share a few meals with him about 4 years ago now. Still a vivid memory for me. Once in a lifetime weekend.
 
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SteveC said:
Damn, look what's for sale again...

For Sale - Roscoe Century Standard 6 w/ Sound Clips

My first "custom" Roscoe. The one I went to NC to "pick up" that summer and used the next day for a lesson with Jimmy Haslip.

My wife would kill me...
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I think she has accepted the fact that if this is available in a bit when all the bathroom stuff is finished that it may very well find its way back for a 3rd time. There's so much nostalgia tied to the bass that it's hard to let go again, even though it may or may not be played heavily.
 
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Officially part of my bass family is the below Roscoe Century Standard Plus 5JB Fretless, and already I'm feeling the need to unload more basses cause this bass plays like heaven!! drool

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SteveC said:
And really, two would probably do it - fretted and fretless 5. That's what I had until I decided that I could get buy with just my fretted 5.

Although I am debating a fretted again...
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When I got the 3006 I thought the action was as superior as it could get on a Roscoe, but then I played this fretless, which had been plek'd and there is nothing like it. IMHO
 
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This might seem like a strange post...

I've (age 57) sub'd this club a long time...never owned a Roscoe (almost did a few years ago and, probably would have by now, if the standard was available in 34" scale...uh, Gard?)

[FYI---I play a 5 and 6 MTD USA's and, also have a Warwick '02 Thumb NT4]

I have bought MANY Berg cabs from Greg@Rocket over the years, which made me well aware of HIS passion for Roscoe's...

So why do I subscribe? Well, the club poster's here...just seem like a really nice bunch of peeps, who I'd enjoy hanging with at a Roscoe GTG! Of course, I'd be contributing nothing Roscoe...and, I'm on the wrong coast. But, just the same, I feel like it'd be a great time hanging with you Roscoe heads!

Carry on...:-)
 
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kevk said:
This might seem like a strange post...

I've (age 57) sub'd this club a long time...never owned a Roscoe (almost did a few years ago and, probably would have by now, if the standard was available in 34" scale...uh, Gard?)

[FYI---I play a 5 and 6 MTD USA's and, also have a Warwick '02 Thumb NT4]

I have bought MANY Berg cabs from Greg@Rocket over the years, which made me well aware of HIS passion for Roscoe's...

So why do I subscribe? Well, the club poster's here...just seem like a really nice bunch of peeps, who I'd enjoy hanging with at a Roscoe GTG! Of course, I'd be contributing nothing Roscoe...and, I'm on the wrong coast. But, just the same, I feel like it'd be a great time hanging with you Roscoe heads!

Carry on...:)
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Well, I'll respond to the question about Standards and custom scale length. :) As much as we'd like to be able to offer a bunch of options on those lines, it would defeat the purpose of a "standard" model - we limit the options in order to streamline production and keep labor costs down, which in turn keeps sale price lower. Note that it doesn't have a matching headstock either: this allows us to build necks in "batches" - i.e. 10 pau ferro 5 string necks, as an example - so we can maximize production time and effort with minimum waste. Making a 5 string neck with a 34" scale length changes more than just the fret placement, the neck is a different size as well as length, the neck pocket on the body is different, the pickup rout placements are different, and the bridge location is different, so we'd have to also change how the body is built, adding even more labor cost, and this is the reason we charge $300 for that on Custom or Signature. When we were planning the line, this was a discussion in the shop - if we had more requests for 34" 5 strings than 35" 5 strings, we would likely have opted to make 34" the default scale length, but the reality is we are talking about 1 out of about 100 instruments being requested with the 34" on 5 and 6 string basses.

Hope that 'splains why we don't offer it on Standard and Standard Plus models without being snarky. ;)

There are the odd used 34" Customs out there, so if you keep an eye out, you might find a great deal on one someday, if you're interested.

And, the Roscoe family is open to anyone that wants to be in it - doesn't matter to us if you have a Roscoe or not! :cool:
 
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Thanks for the info, Gard! :thumbsup:

Looking at my post again, I meant to type "Standard Plus" as some of the Rocket Buckeye Burl's looked really appealing to me, at a good price point...

I always keep an eye out for 34" custom's...you guys do incredibly beautiful work with those! :)
 

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