Well, it looks cool with that shape and fin and all. But a short scale bass with those limp Ripper pups wouldn't be my first choice if I otherwise play an active long scale Warwick.
A smart choice with the Kramer, let me tell you.
Those things were (and are) awful. The worst sounding off the rack Gibson bass ever (and that includes the SB series). Close runner-up: the SG-Z.
https://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/2000gibsonSGZ.php
And what the hell happened to that Gene Simmons Flying V bass so grandly announced a while back?
...my flight school of six Flying V basses (two Gibson shorties, two Dean long + extra-long scale, one Ibanez long scale & one Kramer Flying Broom XKB-10 medium scale), it even has an extra-long scale neck (35"). Make no mistake: size matters.
Assless leather chaps to go with it were case candy.
Did they fit? Inquiring minds and all, you know :o
This one:
(https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/ibanez-v-copy-jpg.848377/)
This precedes the Rocket Roll ones by a few years, it existed as early as 1973, Jim Lea would sometimes use it for TV miming, but I'm not sure whether he ever used his live or to record. It sounds nothing like Jim Lea's regular bass sound at the time, especially noticeable in the second vid which is a re-recording of the studio track for TV (Brit Musicians' Union rules required this back then) with an especially boisterous upfront bass mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=322upW8mHvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13fERYn_Rw
The Rocket Roll basses looked different (and likely sounded better with their P/J pup combo), I believe they are also rarer because they were only produced for a short time:
(https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--I-2o25r2--/a_exif,c_limit,e_unsharp_mask:80,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_south,h_620,q_90,w_620/v1510414277/xkd0jvfc82z8suputrqv.jpg)
That earlier 1973 model was in essence an EB-3L with wings and none of the kalamazoomph, a docile-sounding cult object, nothing more. I bought mine because I drooled for one as a teenager, but honestly theRic4001 Ibanez bolt-on Ho I played at the time sounded better. Gorgeous to look at though.
No, IIRC they had announced that an actual Flying V bass was scheduled too. Hopefully, it will be long scale.
Whaaaaat, you turned a Flying V into a Flying F?! Or at the very least disseminated the heinous atrocity!!!
Tell me, is there still a death penalty in your State by any chance?
Ok, given your commendably adolescent taste for outlandish basses and throwing rock star shapes,(https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/billyrockys1-jpg.1310627/)
we can perhaps commute it to a life sentence. 8)
Did it even intonate correctly? Looks like you had the bridge almost falling off ... :mrgreen:
PS: What happened to the cutting edge lamé polo shirt, cutie? :-*
A smart choice with the Kramer, let me tell you.I'm in complete agreement with you Uwe. N.O.S. Flying V basses sat for years at the House of Guitars, we couldn't give them away a universally acknowledged dog. There are far better ways to spend 5k.
Those things were (and are) awful. The worst sounding off the rack Gibson bass ever (and that includes the SB series). Close runner-up: the SG-Z.
https://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/2000gibsonSGZ.php
I had one of those as well. My cousin was killing time one day in the music store where his wife worked, so he bolted a maple 70s P-Bass neck to an orphaned Ibanez body and they put it out on the sales floor. Of course, I showed up a few days later and bought it on the spot. I played it as it was for awhile and then modded it with a Model One (filling the bridge pickup hole with Bondo) and sprayed it bright red. I actually managed to get credit for it as an art project in college. Wound up selling it to a female bassist who needed something with more image than her natural finish Precision.I spy a Ibanez Destroyer and a Bicentennial Thunderbird combo. I had the same basses in '76 frankly the Ibanez got much more playing time than the Thunderbird. The 76 bird had michrophnic pickups and the action couget low enough, the Ibanez on the other hand played and sounded great. The Destroyer underwent a number of mods through the years but it's been in it's present form since around 1986.Image Url = https://i.imgur.com/BrwBn1b.jpg
There was a local bassist who used one of the Rocket Roll basses with his band - I have a pic of him with it somewhere...
Here's my Ibby V, post surgery along with its roommates at the time.
(https://i.imgur.com/iqdSRXX.jpg)
It's called arthritis and gets us all.
I spy a Ibanez Destroyer and a Bicentennial Thunderbird combo. I had the same basses in '76 frankly the Ibanez got much more playing time than the Thunderbird. The 76 bird had michrophnic pickups and the action couget low enough, the Ibanez on the other hand played and sounded great. The Destroyer underwent a number of mods through the years but it's been in it's present form since around 1986.Image Url = https://i.imgur.com/BrwBn1b.jpg
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My only Flying V bass though I would love a '75 Ibanez like Jim Lea's. This will do in the interim.
https://youtu.be/qIvSo0C4ElQ
The tips of the V seem a bit short, maybe they were trying to keep the overall length of the instrument to a manageable size. The Flying V shape doesn't really lend itself to bass, keeping them to short or medium scale yields better results. The kit is long scale and that is inviting trouble with this format. The build was a fun zero pressure option for a Flying V bass but it does have it's shortcomings.
Proceed then. Das ist ein Befehl, but there is no urgency - at your own time. Send your price estimate.
PS: Is a full double octave neck doable? I have long arms.
Jawohl Herrn Gibsonobergruppenführer! :toast:
I guess adding the extra fret can be done.
I'll send a PM.
I've said it before, but it deserves constant repetition: Your Brooks ThunderVee is the most beautiful Flying Arrow bass ever, period. And that dark-stained body wood extension is an effing brilliant design feature, I bow to you though you apparently largely listen to live albums recorded in the studio!
Did it sell or did you keep it?
Would you build another one? One that is perhaps called U-Vee?
And that ThunderGrabber is cool too.
'Bad Reputation' (the album) was the first Lizzy album I owned, always liked that song with its strip tease/burlesque style bass line! You should have taken your clothes off while playing it though, Rob! Perhaps with some of those nipple tassels too? :gay:
But it needs a pick sound, Lynott's style is all about pick playing. And morecowbellphaser please!!!
Yeah, that is another one! :mrgreen:
And the new state of the art phasers don't really provide that hissy, wet vintage sound either. I have a Boss state of the art phaser and it sounds nowhere as phaser'ish good as my old piece of shit Ibanez stomper (that mechanial click it had ... ;D ) did. It's way too dry and clinical - I have meanwhile bequeathed it onto our guitarist who likes it for Stones'y stuff.
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-thundervee-full-1500_orig.jpg)
I recently bought myself a cheap phaser just to play this - and "Stranglehold"...
in the Lizzy recordings (L&D, BBC) I think the phaser was added by the producer/engineer. Live he didn't use one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQTUgLh6mc
He used an MXR Phase 90. He said something along the lines of "It's the only effect I'll allow myself." I read it in a magazine over 40 years ago, so please don't ask what my source for this is. ;D And I find it funny that some people argue it was a flanger when it is so obviously a phaser on Moonlight.
Flanger, Phaser & Chorus - the Holy Trinity of drippy effects.
(https://media2.giphy.com/media/fo84ixgUWpf9K3vcHe/200w.gif?cid=6c09b9524e321c1i5wki6wppiixkzv6xopnilexre0990ugm&rid=200w.gif&ct=g)
May I out myself? These days, my favorite stomper is this here ...
(https://images.musicstore.de/images/0960/boss-dd-8-digital-delay_1_GIT0051369-000.jpg)
In the SHIM position, yes, of all pansy positions and using the tap tempo foot switch. :gay: What a douchebag I am, I know. Other people have manly overdrives and distortion (which most of the time I can't really stand), but Uwe plays naive little melodies with a fairey sprinkle dust effect. Go to 09:00 here if you are relaxed with your more feminine side ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db0Cnyje9Hc
Whenever I use it, I'm the band's laughing stock. The drummer despairs and says "What is this, you're a B-A-S-S-I-S-T, try to sound like one!" :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: