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The Newport has now gone from $379 to $449 in most stores. So for the people who got it at the lower price, good. For the other people (like me) not good.
He used an MXR Phase 90. He said something along the lines of "It's the only effect I'll allow myself." I read it in a magazine over 40 years ago, so please don't ask what my source for this is.And I find it funny that some people argue it was a flanger when it is so obviously a phaser on Moonlight.
Yeah, that is another one!
And the new state of the art phasers don't really provide that hissy, wet vintage sound either. I have a Boss state of the art phaser and it sounds nowhere as phaser'ish good as my old piece of shit Ibanez stomper (that mechanial click it had ...
It's not that surprising:
The body is much thinner and much smaller than the later production model. Plus the routing underneath the pickguard is a true "swimming pool".
'Bad Reputation' (the album) was the first Lizzy album I owned, always liked that song with its strip tease/burlesque style bass line! You should have taken your clothes off while playing it though, Rob! Perhaps with some of those nipple tassels too?
But it needs a pick sound, Lynott's style is all about pick playing. And morecowbellphaser please!!!
I spy a Ibanez Destroyer and a Bicentennial Thunderbird combo. I had the same basses in '76 frankly the Ibanez got much more playing time than the Thunderbird. The 76 bird had michrophnic pickups and the action couget low enough, the Ibanez on the other hand played and sounded great. The Destroyer underwent a number of mods through the years but it's been in it's present form since around 1986.Image Url =
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Whaaaaat, you turned a Flying V into a Flying F?! Or at the very least disseminated the heinous atrocity!!!
Tell me, is there still a death penalty in your State by any chance?
Ok, given your commendably adolescent taste for outlandish basses and throwing rock star shapes,
we can perhaps commute it to a life sentence.
Did it even intonate correctly? Looks like you had the bridge almost falling off ...
PS: What happened to the cutting edge lamé polo shirt, cutie?
This one:
This precedes the Rocket Roll ones by a few years, it existed as early as 1973, Jim Lea would sometimes use it for TV miming, but I'm not sure whether he ever used his live or to record. It sounds nothing like Jim Lea's regular bass sound at the time, especially noticeable in the second vid which is a re-recording of the studio track for TV (Brit Musicians' Union rules required this back then) with an especially boisterous upfront bass mix.
The Rocket Roll basses looked different (and likely sounded better with their P/J pup combo), I believe they are also rarer because they were only produced for a short time:
That earlier 1973 model was in essence an EB-3L with wings and none of the kalamazoomph, a docile-sounding cult object, nothing more. I bought mine because I drooled for one as a teenager, but honestly theRic4001 Ibanez bolt-on Ho I played at the time sounded better. Gorgeous to look at though.
...my flight school of six Flying V basses (two Gibson shorties, two Dean long + extra-long scale, one Ibanez long scale & one Kramer Flying Broom XKB-10 medium scale), it even has an extra-long scale neck (35"). Make no mistake: size matters.
David Kiswiney shared these pics with me.
Sunn's iconic amps were toast long before Fender bought the company. That happened way back when the Sundholms sold to Hartzell and he started making solid state amps.
Well, it looks cool with that shape and fin and all. But a short scale bass with those limp Ripper pups wouldn't be my first choice if I otherwise play an active long scale Warwick.
Great looking bass, and well thought out. The relocated strap pin is a good idea. Hamer started doing that in the 70s on their Standards (Explorers).
