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The Reverend Club (part 6)

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#901
Sadowsky, Nordstrand, Valenti....all have pan pots.
And one volume.
And global tone.

Wood varietals have no bearing on electronics layouts.

fwiw, I have plenty of basses not in my sig line, three of which are Reverend, including a BH5. And, I've owned plenty of fancy-wooded basses.

My opinion is worth no more than anyone elses, really, and I've never intimated any differently. Like what you like, it's fine with me.
 
#902
Fourteen black Housers, and the most common color. Good to know.

However, with a total of 79 (ish) units built, it's hard to apply the word "common" to any Houser, much less one of 14 in a certain color.

I think that some day, you won't see these Housers for sale too often. Kinda reminds me of the original Ric 4000, of which (according to my source) only 79 units were built between 1957-1962. They virtually never come up for sale. Just sayin'...
 
#903
At one point, Joe changed the pickup covers.
I'm not sure it they went from exposed pole-pieces to none, or the other way around.

Philly Show, approx 2002, I was working the Reverend Booth with Joe across from Warrior. There were 6 big guys slapping and tapping a Warrior for a half hour.
When they were done, they walked past the Rev Booth and just glanced at the Basses. I grabbed a BH and held it out..."hey, why not try this?". They laughed. I said "please?" and plugged it straight to a WM-12. The first guy started playing and his mouth dropped. I gave him a minute then commented for him to try the toggles and knobs. Now, there were 6 mouths hitting the floor. "What's this made of, plastic??" I gave them a quick tour of the build and they handed the Bass back and forth to each other like it was made of Gold. One guy asked me the price ($749 I think??) and he said "I can't walk into a gig with a seven hundred and fifty dollar Bass!". They all shook their heads in amazement as they slowly backed away from the Booth...a half hour later. A few circled back later for another quick try. I believe one of them ordered a BH the following week.
 
#905
When I asked Joe about the diff's in BH5 pickups, he said they were the same, except for the covers.
The exposed poles were first, covered ones later.

The bigger diff is the covered pole pup basses had the pickups 1/2" further apart, and I believe the diff there moves the neck pup closer to the neck...as if it needed more low end...:>O!
 
#907
And not to forget the switch from aluminum Hipshot type "A" bridge to the type "B", which I believe occurred at about the same time as the pickup swap.

These were obviously cost cutting changes, so I'm not sure I fully accept that the pickups "are the same, only with covers". They may very well be from a different supplier, in an effort to cut production costs.

According to an interview I read years ago (I forget when the interview was actually given), Naylor announced the Rumblefish would no longer be equipped with Kent Armstrong pickups, due to a price increase from KA.

During the interview, he would not reveal the name of the new supplier. I would expect a similar thing happened with the Houser.

FWIW.....Dunno who supplied the original pickups for the BH, but I read that Houser was very insistant that the bass be equipped exactly the way he wanted it. I'm betting that he had a specific pickup supplier in mind.

IMO these basses are headed for "collectorville", and the differences between the two BH versions will be duly noted and appreciated then, as they are now.

I'm just sorry I didn't snag an ETA Houser for $600 when I had the chance! (smacks forehead)
 
#915
Brad used to play with various bands a lot in Dallas at the time the BH5's were still on the market. This was around 2001-03. Back then I always saw him playing a Moroccan Gold BH5 straight into a 4x10 Ashdown combo, sometimes with pedals, sometimes not. It sounded killer! But around that same time he started playing the Lakland Hollowbody basses (a gold one at that, I guess that is his color) and since then, that is just about all I have seen him play. Kinda funny when you have your own kick-ass signature model bass. Regardless of which bass he plays, that guy has feel and groove for days! One of my favorite bassists!
 
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chris lykins said:
Indeed, I saw him at an open jam night in an Irish bar In Seattle and was floored by how good he was.
Click to expand...

Regardless of what bass he is playing (he also plays bari-sax and bari-clarinet really well too) you should check him out anytime he is playing somewhere near you. Super nice guy, killer musician! Also, check out all the Critters Buggin' records. Great stuff!!

~Off topic rant over~
 
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