Dear All,
at first let me introduce myself:
I am that Oliver Uwe talked about before and we got in contact through his Explorer bass.
I had provided him with the pic of the 58 Explorer bass and below find many more.
My main hobby is running a WHO tribute band here in Germany with name WHO ARE YOU
(
www.whoareyouband.de)
In the 90ies I was on deep research on Gibson Modernistic guitars and basses as I had planned to write a
book on them.
Back then I also stumbled into the then owner of the original 58 Explorer bass, Mr.Byron Goad, who provided me with the pics below.
The picture mentioned before by someone published in the german Bass Professor magazine was courtesy of me, but they had used it without asking me. Anyway.
I remember also having had that sheet from that 90ies calendar with one page showing the 58 Explorer bass aside the one that is now owned by Uwe. Unfortunately, I don´t have this anymore.
I don´t know if the original Explorer is still in the posession of Mr.Goad; I tried to call him but the number is not working anymore.
Below you can also see pics of the bass hanging in the windows at Stuyvesant Music NYK, as someone told about before.
Well I would like to know where this bass is today.....
Many greetings
Oliver