A very odd Gibson bass on Reverb..

[Grog]

Aaaargh, do not tempt me!!!!

I'm at an age where I have to think about culling the herd (as Bunny B seems to be obviously doing), not expanding it ...

But it sure looks interesting (though really butt-ugly in my view) ... will I be able to withstand? Most embarrassingly, I didn't even know who he was.

Instead of collecting for fins, collect for sigs...…...

[Dave W]

It's not sold yet. He will ship overseas. Uwe, what are you waiting for?

[Jeff Scott]

Bunny is well known in limited circles. I probably wouldn't have heard of him either if I hadn't been on Carvin's mailing list for years (all because I bought some strings from them a couple of times).

I saw Bunny with Chick Corea in the early '80s.  Tap Step tour, IIRC.

[ilan]

Allan who

 

In the late 80's I was really into Holdsworth, after discovering him on Pierre Moerlen's Gong album Gazeuse. I saw him in Philly in 1987 (with Jimmy Johnson on bass and Gary Husband on drums), he blew my mind. He was still playing "normal" electric guitar then, right before switching over completely to SynthAxe. He will be missed.

[ajkula66]

In the late 80's I was really into Holdsworth, after discovering him on Pierre Moerlen's Gong album Gazeuse. I saw him in Philly in 1987 (with Jimmy Johnson on bass and Gary Husband on drums), he blew my mind. He was still playing "normal" electric guitar then, right before switching over completely to SynthAxe. He will be missed.

I was present for what I believe was his first official SynthAxe promotion in the UK.  1987 or '88.

Yes, he definitely was from another planet. RIP.

[gearHed289]

In the late 80's I was really into Holdsworth, after discovering him on Pierre Moerlen's Gong album Gazeuse. I saw him in Philly in 1987 (with Jimmy Johnson on bass and Gary Husband on drums), he blew my mind. He was still playing "normal" electric guitar then, right before switching over completely to SynthAxe. He will be missed.

Side note #1 - I LOVE that Gong album

Side note #2 - Weird, I just mentioned the SynthAxe in another thread!

[amptech]

Good to hear that fellow LBO'ers are fond of him..

It has annoyed me for years that none of the times I saw him was with Gary Husband on drums.
But then I saw a couple of days ago that he is playing drums in a trio in a Town just half an hour from where I live - tomorrow
I follow him on instagram, because he posts so much cool Allan stuff - and suddenly he's in my back yard. Small world!

[uwe]

It's not sold yet. He will ship overseas. Uwe, what are you waiting for?

Hoping that someone else will pull the trigger before I succumb to peer pressure!

[Basvarken]

Nobody else will want it.
It's a Gibson. They all sound muddy and they are for children with tiny hands.

[uwe]

And this one doesn't even have those shiny metal things for the notes.

[Dave W]

Hoping that someone else will pull the trigger before I succumb to peer pressure!

Seriously, I'm surprised. Sure, it's not much to look at, but neither is the Lee Sklar signature. It's as if you've lost your completist urges.

[uwe]

I'm trying to get a grip on them!

[Highlander]

My Idol has feet of clay...

Hmm... a secondary thought... the tighter the grip...

I'm trying to get a grip on them!

The more they fall through...? 

[clankenstein]

MMMM Fretless.......

[doombass]

Uwe, I'd think of it as a substitute for the pointy Gibson with black hardware you never got: http://archive.gibson.com/Files/USA_PDFs/Data_ContinentalV_bass.pdf