The Last Bass Outpost

Well it's back. I knew it on october but I had to keep it secret:) At that time I had an interview with Nick Wass about the whereabouts, getiing it back, and authenticate it. I posted it in English and Dutch. Here's the English one.

https://www.debassist.nl/muzieknieuws/artikel/2-29077/paul-mccartneys-first-hfner-is-back

Eastwood already makes the copy of the Shergold Marathon 6 voor Hooky and now they added a new one.

Fun facts: semisolid, longscale, reversed split P and a thru neck.

https://eastwoodguitars.com/products/eastwood-hooky-viking?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=dUlbV675fcHXQafcWfW6ZZ-Fmni_2yhzRExf0TFpUDMOMOlfLhCSDMcrhxg0P38S.MTbQ9E#features-specs

I love simple one P90 guitars.

Years and years ago I bought a reissue Longhorn. The Copperburst. I had many reasons to buy one. When I first saw one in a book, I fell in love, some of my favourite bassists used them (Rinus Gerritsen of Golden Earring, Frank Kraaijeveld of 'Dutch Stones' the Bintangs, Jack Bruce, Entwistle, the lot), but I really fell in love seeing Tom Petty play one in that Traveling Wilburys video.

I bought it new with all possible discounts from the Dutch distributor for 200 euros (I guess around 200 dollars) and I love it. I played many, many shows with it and I recorded with it. It looks very good and sixties, it's very easy to play, it's a real poser's bass (I'm 15% technique and 85% faking and posing through gigs) and it's easy to do all those poses haha! But main fact was our live engineer loved it. Our lead guitarist sounded quite muddy and the Dano cuts through. A side benefit was the attention of mainly older man (*) asking me after the gig about the bass: 'Is it an oldie' - 'I used to habve one' - 'I'm a big fan of Rinus...' etc.
(*) Nowadays fortunately enough young girls want to borrow it, because of Maneskin haha.

One bad thing: intonation: tune it, check the tuning at the twelfth fret, take the strings of, take the bridge of, move the piece of rosewood a bit, put the bridge back on, mount the strings, tune it, check the intonation at the twelfth fret, take the strings of, take the bridge of, move the piece of rosewood a bit, put the bridge back on aigain, mount the strings, tune it.... so the intonation of my Longhorn is always 'good enough'.

https://www.epiphone.com/nl-NL/Electric-Bass/Rex-Brown-Thunderbird/Ebony

A friend wetransferred me the fout episodes of Geddy lee's interview series Are Bass Players Human Too? I'm halfway the first one and it's very entertaining.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/robert-trujillo-says-he-hung-out-with-geddy-lee-for-two-days-solid-during-filming-of-are-bass-players-human-too?fbclid=IwAR0cXWe2OvprxAZIh4W0_C_5rsHsNyc9xabz3dnM1gJb45K0NnpyaJ5nSnM

Great and you sound great on it too!

 

I reviewed that bass and I regret not buying it at the time., Great sound, great looks, the 32" plays great. I bought the Billy Bo later, so I'm okat, but that's really one that got away. The one I tested and reviewed was from the European limited run. I thought it looked and sounded much better than other affordable Gretsches. Good luck with it and have fun!