Geddy Lee's New Book!!!

[tore00]

Just received mine! Fantastic book, much better than my expectations.

[Basvarken]

I ordered the book last friday night. And it was delivered the very next day in the afternoon.
It is beautiful!
And quite heavy too!
I had bought it to bring along on my vacation, but decided against it because of its weight. I was afraid to damage it.

[amptech]

I ordered the book last friday night. And it was delivered the very next day in the afternoon.
It is beautiful!
And quite heavy too!
I had bought it to bring along on my vacation, but decided against it because of its weight. I was afraid to damage it.

That book is a vacation, Rob!

[tore00]

I just finished looking at the book. I noticed that at least one bass that is in my personal top 5 is not mentioned: the Guild Starfire. I have one in almost pristine conditions. And a De Armond too.
Also no mention of Grabbers, Rippers or Rd’s.
But I’ve the great book of Rob for that, maybe Mr.Lee should have bought a copy!

[westen44]

I just finished looking at the book. I noticed that at least one bass that is in my personal top 5 is not mentioned: the Guild Starfire. I have one in almost pristine conditions. And a De Armond too.
Also no mention of Grabbers, Rippers or Rd’s.
But I’ve the great book of Rob for that, maybe Mr.Lee should have bought a copy!

I'll just speak for myself.  But it would be hard to ignore any Starfires, Grabbers, Rippers, or RDs. 

[gearHed289]

He gets way, way, WAY deep into the Fender stuff, at the expense of covering a whole lot of other basses. I might have already mentioned that it's disappointing he completely blew off the early "boutique" builders like Alembic and Spector and the advent of active electronics entirely. Whether you like that stuff or not, it's an important part of the bass guitar's history. Not complaining, love the book. The chapter on his stage basses is awesome for an old fan-boy like me.

[Chris P.]

I don't think Geddy wanted to be complete and have all basses, but he just bought the basses he liked and he shows us those.

[Dave W]

I don't think Geddy wanted to be complete and have all basses, but he just bought the basses he liked and he shows us those.

I haven't bought the book yet, but that's my understanding of what it's supposed to be, basses from his personal collection.

[tore00]

I was just wondering why he didn’t add such basses to his collection. He clearly owns unusual basses as Hagstrom and Eko, and ones that I’ve never seen in his hands, as the EB1 or EB3.
I can’t believe that he has never meet a Starfire looking for vintage basses.

[westen44]

I was just wondering why he didn’t add such basses to his collection. He clearly owns unusual basses as Hagstrom and Eko, and ones that I’ve never seen in his hands, as the EB1 or EB3.
I can’t believe that he has never meet a Starfire looking for vintage basses.

I think it's unlikely you'll see an EB-1 or EB-3 in the hands of anyone fond of Fenders.  Most Fender fans don't like those basses or an EB-2 and especially not an EB-0.  I'm speaking in general of course.  There are always many exceptions.  As for Geddy Lee, of course he is legendary.  But I've never been a Rush fan and have never kept up with what basses he played.  I hope this doesn't make me sound like a barbarian on a Geddy Lee thread, but it probably does. 

[amptech]

I was just wondering why he didn’t add such basses to his collection. He clearly owns unusual basses as Hagstrom and Eko, and ones that I’ve never seen in his hands, as the EB1 or EB3.
I can’t believe that he has never meet a Starfire looking for vintage basses.

Well, until 2012 he only had a couple of vintage basses - those he used live and in the studio (A jazz and a Rick).
I think the collection is amazing, he even grew fond of short scale Gibson basses as well as Höfners. Judging from what he writes,
he's obsessive and probably will collect more basses.