What Happened To Lane Poor?

Lane Poor has gone out of business, sadly....

 

When I was spec'ing my custom, I looked for Poor like the CIA is looking for Bin Laden. So, I've seen about every reference to him a search engine can find up till July.

Since it was on the net, take these with a grain of salt;

- One person who lives near Poor's shop said he went by one weekday afternoon this past spring. He didn't see anyone in the shop but the shop was still full of machinery.

- Somebody with a bass company made a reference to his making pickups for an as-yet-to-be introduced bass. I can't remember where. I know it wasn't a company website, more like a site where some people in the bass biz were chit-chatting.

What weirded me is that his website dropped off the planet for Nov - April, (approx.) and then it showed up again. But no responses are given to emails and the phone just rings.

 

The closest I came to what I wanted was by emailing stores that were LP dealers to see if they had any in the back room. One place said they would take them off a used bass they had on the sales floor. The rest were out of them, but some of those gave me leads to follow. But all I could find were for sixers, (I have a 5 string).

You could also try bass luthiers who offered them as an option. Some of these folks stockpiled them.

If you look back a month or so in the Talkbass "for sale" forum, a person in Hawaii was selling his unused 6-string Poors and preamp at cost or reasonable offer.

If you're really serious, Larry Pollack at Aero would make some clones for you......if you don't mind the cost,

 

I have a Seymour Duncan Basslines Music Man 5 replacement pickup for sale if you're looking for one. I used it in my old Stingray 5 for about a year, then sold the bass put pulled the Duncan pickup out before I sold it.

Its in excellent condition. $70 shipped anywhere inside continental U.S.

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what about a stingray pickup? nothin' like the real thing, as they say.

 

Actually, up until the last album, he didn't use the Flea bass in the studio.

And if you want to sound like Flea, you'd better get his rig and his hands too.

 

Yep, and do the extensive research into the roots of funk like Flea has done, so you'll have the sensibility and the vocabulary.

I think Flea's best stuff gets sold short about 90% of the time because his more athletic slapping stuff gets all the attention. The best stuff he's done, IMO, is on "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", where he did mostly fingerstyle. The guy is a monster, no doubt, but not because he can slap at light speed. Wish more of the younger players would realize that.

Oh, and a Modulus with Lane Poors will get that tone...I had a Q5 with LP humbuckers that nailed it.