The Last Bass Outpost

The best Thin Lizzy album were middle albums (as far as I'm concerned).
Done over a period of just two years.

Jaibreak (1976)
Johnny The Fox (1976)
Bad Reputation (1977)
Live and Dangerous (1978)

I'm trying hard to think of a band whose later albums stand out. Can't think of any. 

Somehow they all seem to have used all their gunpowder on the first few. And for the rest of their careers fans want to hear those songs. No matter how much effort they put into new albums.

Here's the inevitable video demo ;-)

I injured my left hand a few weeks ago, so my playing is a bit sloppy. I just don't have enough strength in my fingers yet.
But the video does give a good enough idea how the FV-12 sounds. ;-)

The German magazine Gitarre&Bass wrote a nice review about the Brooks EB-PL Noir that I built almost seven years ago.




The PDF of the two pages can be downloaded here:
https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/gb_2024_05-pag-56-57.pdf

I have been busy this weekend. Today two more Brooks bass guitars were born.

About a year ago I was approached by a former fellow student of my brother. His passion is woodworking and in particular collecting tools, such as very exclusive planes, chisels, rasps, etc.
Now he had bought a very nice CNC mill a while ago. And he was looking for a nice project to play around with.
Anyway, we decided to make a complete bass guitar together with that CNC-machine. I would give him all the dimensions and specifications and he would make the 3D files.

Together we went to my local wood supplier to select rough planks of mahogany and maple.
I bought the hardware and electronic components.
And two months ago - after countless samples of scrap wood- two bodies and two necks were ready to be processed into a bass guitar.
I glued the fingerboard to the neck, tapped in frets, lacquered, sanded and polished it.
Filled the pores of the body. Lacquered, sanded and polished that one.
Then mounted everything.

Today they were finally finished.
The funny thing is that it is absolutely no less work than making it yourself by hand. Only if there is a series production, then all the efforts will be able to bear fruit.


The Brooks Fenderbird (Jufferschans Edition)

- Mahogany body
- Brooks all maple P-bass neck
- Fiesta Red finish
- EY Guitar Thunderbird humbuckers
?- 34" scale
- Bone nut
?- Wide travel Thunderbird bridge plus tailstop. Nickel
- Black three ply pickguard
- Gotoh Res-o-lite  GB528 tuners
- Gotoh extra large strapbuttons. Nickel
?- CTS potentiometers
- Silver reflector cap knobs
- Switchcraft output jack
- Rotosound RS66LDN strings
- Weight: 4.3 kg











Twins!

Never heard of him.
Was he a Fats Domino protegé?
The way he moves behind the piano is exactly the same.

Leonid does it again.

Incredible band

I really don’t give a ****.
Kiss is way over the hill.
Their fans are middle aged men who already own all their records and most likely a bunch of their merchandise too.
Who is going to be interested in their back catalogue or hologram shows?