What ----- is ----- this!!!!??????
There is nothing I dislike about this bass. I find the shape to be awesome .... not the way 100%-.0001 of people say "oh that so awesome
What is it?
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There is nothing I dislike about this bass. I find the shape to be awesome .... not the way 100%-.0001 of people say "oh that so awesome
What is it?
Nevermind ... I found it. Musicman Big Al. I recognized the headstock shape as a Music Man, so I went on their website and BANG there it is on the homepage.
So in the immortal words of Emily Litella ..... ~nevermind~ ...
So in the immortal words of Emily Litella ..... ~nevermind~ ...
- Jan 28, 2009
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The Tele is definitely cool... weighs a ton, but sounds really cool; You can blend the Mudbucker in to the mix with the other two pickups... Big Fun!
Here's another 3 pickup bass...
Moonshine
- Jan 28, 2009
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Cool, a three-pickup Shorthorn. I didn't know they had a model with three!
They don't. I put a Dano bass neck on one of their guitar bodies.
Almost a perfect fit (had to open the neck pocket slightly; about 1/64" on each side). Most Dano bodies are interchangeable when it come to basses & guitars.
Moonshine
- Aug 21, 2008
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What ----- is ----- this!!!!??????
There is nothing I dislike about this bass. I find the shape to be awesome .... not the way 100%-.0001 of people say "oh that so awesome" .... no no .. I mean it in it's literal sense ... it brings forth a true sense of awe. What a beautiful bass. The little details and switches and that are sortof moot, I mean you can do ~whatever~ to any bass. But it's shape and pickguard ... wonderful! So very unique.
What is it?
It is a cool shape. If you look at the 8-string I made from the P bass, and then the Big Al, you can see a resemblance. I think it's because Albert Lee's guitar started out with a more general Fender/MM shape and then had parts cut off, just as mine did. Mine is pointier.
Here it was in '96 after getting a new neck and paint job.
Looks like that bass you had in that 80s band (was that band called The Jetsonz?)It is a cool shape. If you look at the 8-string I made from the P bass, and then the Big Al, you can see a resemblance. I think it's because Albert Lee's guitar started out with a more general Fender/MM shape and then had parts cut off, just as mine did. Mine is pointier.
Here it was in '96 after getting a new neck and paint job.
Mmmmm ... pointy 80s axes!
Just for posterity ... here's my current Tele guitar .... I call it the Shredbilly ....
And a sketch of a bass I someday want to construct if I can ever get someone to cut the body out for me..... I call it the Race Bass ....
It's not headless, it just looks like it is on the back end. It's shape was inspired by raod racing motorcycles ... look at the tail end of this (the seat and tail section) ..
I'm disabled with an inoperable spinal injury and only certain body shapes allow me to play for any more than about 20 minutes or I am screwed over the following two to three days. So I realized that the Explorer body shape as well as the Flying V allowed me to play for longer stretches. So I copied the profile of the Explorer (actually the Dean ML) to the top of the Tele and cut it off. I put a router bit in my drill press to radius the cut edges. It's unfinished alder. I dearly love that ugly bitch. Unfinished padouk neck feels awesome! It's got all the "good hardware" and nice electrics. I've often wondered how a Tele-bass would work out if I were to treat it in a like fashion.
I hope to someday build the Race Bass ... I can't play my modded Jazz for very long at all. The VA isn't much help with my problem either. So I'm hoping I'll be able to get that body done sometime.
Pardon my whining .... I've been up the entire night working out some electronics issues and I am overtired and talking out my ass end. I really need to crash!
And a sketch of a bass I someday want to construct if I can ever get someone to cut the body out for me..... I call it the Race Bass ....
It's not headless, it just looks like it is on the back end. It's shape was inspired by raod racing motorcycles ... look at the tail end of this (the seat and tail section) ..
I'm disabled with an inoperable spinal injury and only certain body shapes allow me to play for any more than about 20 minutes or I am screwed over the following two to three days. So I realized that the Explorer body shape as well as the Flying V allowed me to play for longer stretches. So I copied the profile of the Explorer (actually the Dean ML) to the top of the Tele and cut it off. I put a router bit in my drill press to radius the cut edges. It's unfinished alder. I dearly love that ugly bitch. Unfinished padouk neck feels awesome! It's got all the "good hardware" and nice electrics. I've often wondered how a Tele-bass would work out if I were to treat it in a like fashion.
I hope to someday build the Race Bass ... I can't play my modded Jazz for very long at all. The VA isn't much help with my problem either. So I'm hoping I'll be able to get that body done sometime.
Pardon my whining .... I've been up the entire night working out some electronics issues and I am overtired and talking out my ass end. I really need to crash!
I was really impressed with this by Ed Friedland's review. IMHO this is one high dollar bass that brings total versatile functionality without relying on name or bling for the price tag. I've always enjoyed owning several inexpensive but great sounding and playing instruments, but this if any, would be the sell' em all and just have just one bass. In a solid body, of course. I'd still need a hollow, a fretless a BEAD and at least one shorty. 
What ----- is ----- this!!!!??????
There is nothing I dislike about this bass. I find the shape to be awesome .... not the way 100%-.0001 of people say "oh that so awesome" .... no no .. I mean it in it's literal sense ... it brings forth a true sense of awe. What a beautiful bass. The little details and switches and that are sortof moot, I mean you can do ~whatever~ to any bass. But it's shape and pickguard ... wonderful! So very unique.
What is it?
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Nevermind ... I found it. Musicman Big Al. I recognized the headstock shape as a Music Man, so I went on their website and BANG there it is on the homepage.
So in the immortal words of Emily Litella ..... ~nevermind~ ...
- Aug 21, 2008
- 10,386
- 253
- 68
- Disclosures
- Owner, SGD Music Products
Looks like that bass you had in that 80s band (was that band called The Jetsonz?)
Mmmmm ... pointy 80s axes!
Yes, it's the same bass! It started life as a '74 P bass. Back then it was just a used, and not very good P bass. Now it has a new 33" scale neck. It's actually in not such great condition at the moment and needs to be restored.
The pickups were rewound to low impedance and it has a two band preamp I designed.
The band was called the Jetsonz.
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It can heard on the track "American Standard" recorded in '79 or '80.
- Aug 21, 2008
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- Owner, SGD Music Products
Just for posterity ... here's my current Tele guitar .... I call it the Shredbilly ....
Very cool!
Here's my sort-of Tele/Les Paul hybrid.
Boy that sucker was midrange thick! I listened to You Bet Your Life (whole album). In Artificial Intelligence it really punched through, it seemed to be a bit low end starved on Do What Makes Your Heart Sing. Many influences in that stuff, couldn't help but think of Jan Hammer's solo efforts based on what I heard of the guitarist. Linndrums? Yamahas? Er ???
But yea, that bass had a shipload of midrange!
- Jun 2, 2012
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I have always admired the 25th anniversary and the Reflex. The prices, colors and mostly the body shape (not enough contouring for this old man) have kept me at a distance.
If they made a Stingray in an HSS or HHH configuration that would be tempting. I love my Stingray HH, but feel oppressed by the fact that modifying it would devalue it significantly.
- Jun 2, 2012
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- Doner Designs is an alias for Steve Doner
Flux - your bike pics made me want my old V-Max back...until I read of your injuries. Do you see the parallel in my choice of bike (wretched excess horsepower- as with pickups and controls).
Just for posterity ... here's my current Tele guitar .... I call it the Shredbilly ....
And a sketch of a bass I someday want to construct if I can ever get someone to cut the body out for me..... I call it the Race Bass ....
It's not headless, it just looks like it is on the back end. It's shape was inspired by raod racing motorcycles ... look at the tail end of this (the seat and tail section) ..
I'm disabled with an inoperable spinal injury and only certain body shapes allow me to play for any more than about 20 minutes or I am screwed over the following two to three days. So I realized that the Explorer body shape as well as the Flying V allowed me to play for longer stretches. So I copied the profile of the Explorer (actually the Dean ML) to the top of the Tele and cut it off. I put a router bit in my drill press to radius the cut edges. It's unfinished alder. I dearly love that ugly bitch. Unfinished padouk neck feels awesome! It's got all the "good hardware" and nice electrics. I've often wondered how a Tele-bass would work out if I were to treat it in a like fashion.
I hope to someday build the Race Bass ... I can't play my modded Jazz for very long at all. The VA isn't much help with my problem either. So I'm hoping I'll be able to get that body done sometime.
Pardon my whining .... I've been up the entire night working out some electronics issues and I am overtired and talking out my ass end. I really need to crash!
