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Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: Lightyear on January 25, 2011, 08:45:33 PM

Title: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Lightyear on January 25, 2011, 08:45:33 PM
Kind of a Ric thing.  Looks interesting but the pick guard just isn't quite right.  Still, at first glance, I like it.

http://www.waterstoneguitars.com/press.shtml
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: gweimer on January 26, 2011, 05:37:38 AM
I like it, but agree on the pickguard. It's almost as ugly as the Marcus Miller one.  It looks like Waterstone grabbed a leftover, and just slapped it on the bass.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: jumbodbassman on January 26, 2011, 09:04:27 AM
+1 pG s too big and crappy looking.  Major neck diver......
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Basshappi on January 26, 2011, 11:07:35 AM
Cool, but they ruined it with that pickguard.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Pilgrim on January 26, 2011, 01:40:52 PM
Am I the only one who read the title of this thread and flashed the words "Yellowstone Kelly"?

Clint Walker ruled.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Dave W on January 26, 2011, 02:20:20 PM
I had forgotten that movie. If someone comes out with a Cheyenne Bodie bass, I'll think of Clint.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Pilgrim on January 26, 2011, 03:49:36 PM
I had forgotten that movie. If someone comes out with a Cheyenne Bodie bass, I'll think of Clint.

You and me Dave, children of the 50's.

Wait....would that be a Bodie-body-bass?

Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: shadowcastaz on January 26, 2011, 04:02:16 PM
I would prefer a rear rout on that.Big beige tear drop does nothing :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: gearHed289 on January 27, 2011, 08:54:41 AM
I had forgotten that movie. If someone comes out with a Cheyenne Bodie bass, I'll think of Clint.

(http://www.rickenbacker.com/images/4004Cii.jpg)
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Dave W on January 27, 2011, 09:26:03 AM
 ;D

I had an early 4004 Cheyenne. I sold my Clint Walker bass. D'oh!

Whenever he's mentioned, it reminds me of that horrible ski accident he had where the ski pole pierced his heart. Amazing that he survived that.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: rahock on January 28, 2011, 12:12:34 PM
Am I the only one who read the title of this thread and flashed the words "Yellowstone Kelly"?

Clint Walker ruled.

Isn't that the one with Ed (Kookie) Byrnes, from the TV series 77 Sunset Strip,  as the costar. Kookie , if memory serves me correctly, was often referred to as being the "ginchiest". Good Lord, we're a bunch of old farts :o ;D.
Rick
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Dave W on January 28, 2011, 01:09:53 PM
IMDB says you're right about Edd being in Yellowstone Kelly.

Kookie told Connie Stevens she was the ginchiest in their famous duet. I don't remember him ever saying it otherwise. Just made up hipster talk from about 50 years ago.

I thought this was awful back then, it's even worse looking back now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BkSK0PLY8
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Pilgrim on January 28, 2011, 04:57:24 PM
I'll bet parents thought he was a scandal back then - with that jacket and the body language, he looked like a JD.

Remember "JD"? Haven't heard that term in years.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: sniper on January 28, 2011, 05:19:26 PM
the thing i remember about Kookie was the Grabowski T bucket:

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/grabowski%20bucket/grabowski-t-hot-rod-2.jpg)

thats Norm behind the wheel

i like that red Ric
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Dave W on January 28, 2011, 10:55:00 PM
I'll bet parents thought he was a scandal back then - with that jacket and the body language, he looked like a JD.

Remember "JD"? Haven't heard that term in years.

I don't know, Kookie was more a sanitized-for-TV hipster than a rebel. My dad loved the show and the characters like Kookie and Roscoe.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: rahock on January 29, 2011, 08:45:15 AM
Somewhere I believe I still have a 45 of "Kookie Lend Me Your Comb". The Flip side was a "hip" Christmas song , something like "Have a COOL Yule". My older sister was one of those who thought Kookie was the ginchiest :-[.
Rick
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Pilgrim on January 29, 2011, 01:05:59 PM
I don't know, Kookie was more a sanitized-for-TV hipster than a rebel. My dad loved the show and the characters like Kookie and Roscoe.

So did mine!  Even the music was cool on 77 Sunset Strip.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Dave W on January 29, 2011, 01:15:40 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScginHtgbw

Geez, Efrem Zimbalist is 92 now.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: uwe on February 01, 2011, 12:18:16 PM
Oh my, my late mother loved that series!  :) It epitomized America to her back then.
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: ilan on February 01, 2011, 12:40:36 PM
On the original subject - to quote Rickenbacker CEO John Hall on the RRF:

"You'll find that these have been withdrawn from the market."
Title: Re: Waterstone Skelly
Post by: Dave W on February 01, 2011, 02:53:27 PM
On the original subject - to quote Rickenbacker CEO John Hall on the RRF:

"You'll find that these have been withdrawn from the market."

I'm not surprised.

The cresting wave upper body design and the headstock shape probably doomed it.