Roscoe Club

[JOME77]

I'm gonna put that on my tombstone.
To give you a little background, here's where I'm coming from:

That was a magical time in music (the 70's)! That's one of the albums that I purchased a couple years ago to build my chops back up after playing years of acoustic guitar based worship music.
AJA is definitely my favorite all time album (and Gadd and Rainey are one crazy good rhythm section).

 

[staccatogrowl]

I've owned a couple of Zon basses with stiff carbon fiber necks. I liked them for their unmoving necks, and their metallic sound. And sold them. I like the sound of wood. And Keith Roscoe does too.

Like this. . It's yours, right? Gorgeous!

 

[JOME77]

I have to admit that I love the look of it. BUT, I feel that there may be some added rigidity to this design.

No doubt! The necks are quite stable, which is what you want, right?

It's all good but the best part is the growl that it brings to the equation! IMO it blends perfectly (sound wise) with an ash body.

Speaking of Steeley Dan and Wenge Wedge necks ....

I laid this down a few minutes ago using my Sig SKB 5 with a Wenge Wedge neck and a 2 week old set of D'addario Nickel RW's. IMO a great example of that growl that you'll get with a ash bodied Roscoe and wenge wedge neck!
The slides in this tune almost emulate a fretless with the blend control favoring the bridge p/u and a little low mid boost.

 

[Freddy-G.]

Like this. . It's yours, right? Gorgeous!

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It could be. Keith said he's working on the color spraying and his team is working on the neck this week. Next week is spraying gloss and buffing and fitting the parts together.

 

[SteveC]

My phone won’t play those files unfortunately. Or maybe not as it’ll just make me want something go don’t need.

 

[Freddy-G.]

Speaking of Steeley Dan and Wenge Wedge necks ....

I laid this down a few minutes ago using my Sig SKB 5 with a Wenge Wedge neck and a 2 week old set of D'addario Nickel RW's. IMO a great example of that growl that you'll get with a ash bodied Roscoe and wenge wedge neck!
The slides in this tune almost emulate a fretless with the blend control favoring the bridge p/u and a little low mid boost.

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Ah, Joe. That is beautiful.

 

[Freddy-G.]

My phone won’t play those files unfortunately. Or maybe not as it’ll just make me want something go don’t need.

Nah. Steve, don't listen to the noise on the forum. Pick up your beautiful bass and listen to it. It's all you'll ever need. Sweet, sweet music.

 

[SteveC]

Nah. Steve, don't listen to the noise on the forum. Pick up your beautiful bass and listen to it. It's all you'll ever need. Sweet, sweet music.

Yeah, it sounded good at rehearsal last night. New strings and batteries. Usually helps get me over temporary GAS attacks. I have 2 gigs over the next 3 days so I’ll get some playing done without too much time to yearn and covet for basses I may or may not need.

 

[Nightman]

I'm just going to put this right here...

 

[Nightman]

This is different Roscoe Wedge neck with Maple, Wenge and Walnut.

Here's the front of the bass.

 

[MattLplaysBass]

Yeah, it sounded good at rehearsal last night. New strings and batteries. Usually helps get me over temporary GAS attacks. I have 2 gigs over the next 3 days so I’ll get some playing done without too much time to yearn and covet for basses I may or may not need.

“Need” is such a relative term

 

[Nightman]

“Need” is such a relative term

Right! It's related to 'Got to have it!'.

 

[SteveC]

I'm just going to put this right here...
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Lovely bass. I know people love their Pedulla’s and Zon’s for fretless sound, but give me the “wood” of a Roscoe and that great sound any day.

 

[Nightman]

It's a great sounding fretless Roscoe! The upgrade/mod makes it a broader voice fretless.

 

[bassWR]

Well if we’re posting pics today....

 

[JOME77]

Well if we’re posting pics today....
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I think that you may have made Steve fall off the bike again!

 

[Nightman]

Very good, Joe!!!

 

[SteveC]

A quick shot from our outdoor gig tonight...

 

[Nightman]

Nice rug, too!! Great for concealing beverage stains.

 

[SteveC]

Nice rug, too!! Great for concealing beverage stains.

It’s the drummers rug. He leaves room for me. We like to be close so we stay tight.