The Last Bass Outpost

Hi guys,

After some weeks away I'm back! It'll take some time to read all those unread topics and replies, but in a few days I'll know everything again.

Something happend? Did Uwe buy any new Gibsons? Is th Tequila-Bird already refinished? Did the Americans got their BaCHBirds? Is Blazer still trying to get us back to the eighties? Does Mark got his Lull-Bird yet?

Glad to be back!

Chris P.

I had a really strange evening last night.

Exactly a year ago I was head of jury of a quite big Dutch band contest. A band called Daily Bread won. Since then I saw the band perform regularly and they signed with the most well known Dutch indie label were all the good Dutch bands are at. I also had a colleague do an interview with the bass player for De Bassist.

Well, yesterday they were live at a TV programm called De Wereld Draait Door. That's maybe the best watched tv show in Holland. I knew they were on, so I tuned to that programm. To my surprise there was footage of me handing them over this award after me announcing: And the winner of........ is: DAILY BREAD.'

After those five seconds my quiet evening was over. I got like 10 text messages, 20 emails, messages on FaceBook and MySpace, people called me. I was busy answering mails, texts and calls the whole evening after five seconds on national TV. Really strange!



Daily Bread:
http://www.myspace.com/dailybreadtheband

Hi there,

I'm just back from Germany where I visited Uwe and the Frankfurter Musikmesse. I still have to upload my pictures, so I'll post 'm later.

The Gibson booth at the Messe was really disappointing: Two Gibson basses: a normal Thunderbird and the block inlay SG Standard bass. That's it. Period. I asked the guys about the Grabber/Ripper and they said they will be available within three months. And here's the only news: I was cheky enough to ask when the BFG bass would be available and the guy said: End of the year, December. So that's a kind of a scoop, isn't it?

Then Epiphone: Just the normal ones and three neck through Thunderbird Pro's..... hanging locked on a wall so I couldn't try them out. For comparison: At Fender's I just pulled the 5.000 dollar Custom Shop twohumbucker Tele bass off the wall and played it! I even dropped a Road Worn by incident, which maked it a real Road Worn bass;)

Well, as I said I post pics later on.

Visiting Uwe was great again!!

At the Messe Orange will release some 2x10 and 8x10 cabs. I'll post some pics soon.

Hi guys,

I'm bidding on this bass. It's an Fernandes 'The Function' Explorer. It has a bolt-on neck and it's eighties. I found some Fernandes brochures online of '81, '82 and '83, but I could only find a one pick up Explorer.

If I win it I'll keep it this way or I try to put my 70s Fender black block neck on it as a kind of a Explorerbird. The Fender neck has 20 frets and this one 21, so maybe the bridhe has to be replaced a bit. But maybe I keep it as it is. I'll try to win her first...

Why an Explorer? Well, JAE and Freddie Cavalli of Herman Brood's Wild Romance:)

And the question: I can't find anything about this bass on the internet or Harmony Central. So any help is welcome!

As we all know (this intro is for Rob) Warwick is the only official maker of Entwistle-signatures. They make the Buzzard and the Stryker, which is a bit like an Alembic Spyder/Explorerbird with Buzzard electronics and headstock.

On the website of Lakland are pics of a Fenderbird-kinda bass on which they were working for Mr. Entwistle himself, just before he died. That's what Lakland states.

On another site I saw some Alembic Dragonwings for sale. The Dragonwing is a kind of Alembic version of the Buzzard. Maybe as an  'answer' to Warwick's Buzzard? On that site the Dragonwing is a bass Entwistle ordered just before he died. (BTW: Alembic still makes Spyders)

Well, JAE was using Status Buzzards before he died, he was still good friends with the very nice H.P Wilfer, so the Lakland statement of making a Fenderbird kinda bass for Entwistle.... I don't get it. Entwistle was never looking back and always busy with new things, new electronics, new materials, ...
The statement of the Dragonwing being a new Entwistle bass is strange too.. He wasn't using Alembics for years.

So are these manufacturers just trying to sell more basses by telling Entwistle asked them to make a certain bass? Will Gibson reissue the RD by stating 'Entwistle wanted it as his signature after all and he told Gibson just before he died?'

Just some thoughts I wanted to share.

Oh, BTW: Just before he died, Entwistle told me I was the new Entwistle. The best player of the new century. And that's true! That was just before his spirit entered my cat Curtis.

New song. Is it a Rivoli?

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