If I hadn't just bought that Ric I'd go look at this. Looks like a cross between a fretless Dano and an Ampeg scroll bass.
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/msg/1635368001.html
looks like someone ripped off a wish bass design but made it a whole lot better. you know wishnevsky is in the winston salem area...
Quote from: nofi on March 09, 2010, 06:56:32 AM
looks like someone ripped off a wish bass design but made it a whole lot better. you know wishnevsky is in the winston salem area...
I just looked at the wishbass website. M'god those are some FUGLY basses. Some of them look like they were made out of sheep intestines.
Quote from: nofi on March 09, 2010, 06:56:32 AM
looks like someone ripped off a wish bass design but made it a whole lot better.
The neck and knobs still look bad. The neck definitely has a short-scale thing going on, and Ampeg scroll basses are famous for being larger than standard. I also think I've seen those bodies for cheap online. Wish's crap is all neck-through from what I've seen so maybe this is a first attempt by someone trying to one-up him.
Time to dredge this up. That's Wish himself playing. :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u35sHICjE
And now, a repost of my "Pre-CBS Wishbass" pic. ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/davepix/humor/pre_cbs_wishbass.jpg)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Dave W on March 09, 2010, 12:59:09 PM
Time to dredge this up. That's Wish himself playing. :rolleyes:
Still my favorite viewer comment:
"Uh Oh, Wilfred Brimley got into the LSD again!" ;D
This topic never ceases to amuse. I don't think those f-hole cutouts are tone chambers. Maybe they're intended as nesting sites for brown recluse spiders when you leave the bass on the porch?
Quote from: Dave W on March 09, 2010, 12:59:09 PM
Time to dredge this up. That's Wish himself playing. :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u35sHICjE
My wife just watched this. Her comments: "He needs to be f***ing shot," and "I think I just got stupider watching that."
It looks like the Eastwood 'copy' of the Scroll Bass.
Or something like this;
(http://www.diamondstrings.com/Series%2010%20ampegbass-1.jpg)
thats a series 10 scroll. i have one also. you can see the headstock in the background. 2 originals on the right, some wishbass scrolls, and bodies built y unorthodox guitars in indiana
Quote from: Dave W on March 09, 2010, 12:59:09 PM
Time to dredge this up. That's Wish himself playing. :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u35sHICjE
The man has an ear for melody. Possibly a transposed one though.
Quote from: uwe on April 30, 2010, 07:16:34 AM
The man has an ear for melody. Possibly a transposed one though.
An ear for melody, perhaps......A taste for alcohol, definately ;D
Rick
if they did not show the bass those 'sounds' could be coming from sick livestock.
Quote from: nofi on April 30, 2010, 10:36:10 AM
if they did not show the bass those 'sounds' could be coming from sick livestock.
You're right. Instead of fretless "mwah" it sounds like fretless "mooooo..."