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Other Bass Brands / Re: Carvin LB20
« Last post by Ken on May 28, 2024, 08:17:02 AM »
Yes, she loves that green one.  You remember correctly; it was a GHS ad.  She always seemed to use Boomers.

I found this cool video of her playing the black one with Moby.  Seems she was on tour with Moby in 1999 and Carvin gave her the black one.  She then had the green one made.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Jason Momoa rocking a 1959 Explorer bass replica
« Last post by senmen on May 28, 2024, 08:05:42 AM »
Oh and Amptech:
Your build really nails the originality!
Great!

Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
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Gibson Basses / Re: Jason Momoa rocking a 1959 Explorer bass replica
« Last post by senmen on May 28, 2024, 08:02:02 AM »
Guys,
in fact the bass Jason Momoa is playing is owned by him and was
ordered by him with Gibson. 
And yes, the chrome cover is definitely the later add to the original
bass owned by Ken Collins but that is how it had been pictured most
in the magazines and also at the time Robb Lawrence sold it. 
But of course, the brown bakelite cover is the correct one as you
can see in the old Lonnie Mack photos. 
And to be original, in that early phase it didn’t have the third knob
but had a baritone switch at that position. 
And yes also the tuners changed from time to time
Going via three banjos and one conventional to metal knob
banjos.  But the originals are of course the banjos with the classic
knobs. 
Despite Uwes great bass Gibson also had at least one other replica
buildt some years ago and there was also a replica buildt
(don’t remember the builder) for Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick. 

Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Carvin LB20
« Last post by gearHed289 on May 28, 2024, 07:46:10 AM »
Carvin seems to have made a lot of quality stuff. I've never owned one, but I've played a couple. I remember Greta from a magazine ad. Maybe for GHS strings(?), and I think she was shown with a green Carvin.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« Last post by 4stringer77 on May 28, 2024, 06:39:34 AM »
Rolling Stone just published The 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time

Most of them wouldn't begin to make any top list of mine, but I was pleased to see a few, including this.



So you don't have Taylor Swift in your top 20 of all time greatest Country songs?
I picked up a country gold compilation my last time through Cracker Barrell. Here's a few that stuck out to me.
Just an awesome upright bass tone on this early Bocephus track.

A nice sentimental one I hadn't heard before.

Here's one that's still pretty relevant for the times.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Butchered Bicentennial IV to '64 II Clone
« Last post by amptech on May 28, 2024, 03:02:27 AM »
Good luck, gotta love a rescue project!
Worst I had was a Hofner shaped by some acid head in Sweden:

Worst part was getting hold of old abachi wood from Germany. Took the liberty of making a Spanish 'S'
Höfner shape and doing a candy orange finish that I'm sure someone here hates as much as antigua :mrgreen:


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Gibson Basses / Re: Jason Momoa rocking a 1959 Explorer bass replica
« Last post by amptech on May 28, 2024, 02:49:20 AM »
An appropriate moment to repost the one I built some years ago:
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Lowe Shop Notes
« Last post by BTL on May 27, 2024, 03:20:03 PM »
How it started, how it's going.



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Gibson Basses / Re: Jason Momoa rocking a 1959 Explorer bass replica
« Last post by TBird1958 on May 27, 2024, 11:20:43 AM »
How incredibly vile and nasty you two are!  :-\ I had nothing whatsoever to do with the gestation of that particular bass, if you remember, a Texan car dealer wanted it that way and instructed the Custom Shop. I bought it decades later.

And soundwise, I bet it creams the mudbucker predecessors into the ground, so there!

   

 Your Mother told you, you'd meet girls like me!

My not pimp - ish Bombay Sapphire Bird!

 

There's still this........




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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« Last post by Alanko on May 27, 2024, 09:40:52 AM »

The genius of Paul McCartney at work.

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