NAMM 2020

[ilan]

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[uwe]

Nice performance, Chris, if a bit verbose/spraakzaam. 

[Dave W]

Not content to be a bassist and a journalist, Chris is also now a model!

[westen44]

He may go into acting next like Sting did for a while. 

[Chris P.]

Hollywood was watching me. the Chris Dekker Turn is trending. This is only the beginning.

[uwe]

I know where this is going. He'll soon host his own show on German TV - all Dutch(wo)men eventually do.

[Chris P.]

Linda de Mol, Rudi Carrell und Chris Dekker. Sounds okay.

[Alanko]

I can see the short scale market getting oversaturated soon.

I think we're at a place now where the tonal deficiencies of them can be pretty well ironed out. I used to own a Squier Bronco as my first bass, and I had to chop down 34'' strings to fit. Back in the day I gather this was common.

My latest Mustang has the La Bella flats set on it, and the tone is very even across all the strings.

[uwe]

Linda de Mol, Rudi Carrell und Chris Dekker. Sounds okay.

How the hell could you forget Silvie?! Her export helped the average IQ statistics in Germany and The Netherlands draw closer.



Or Jopie Heesters?!



And adding insult to injury, little Heintje?



Lou van Burg?



Our entertainment industry is infested with you guys! 

[Pilgrim]

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Darn!! I missed post #6666!

[Chris P.]

 

[wellREDman]

"Inharmonicity", wasn't that one of those unpronounceable Police albums back in the day?



(Hard to believe, but I only saw this "Gordon flees the DUNE set and is on his way heavily inspired by Duran Duran's Wild Boys vid" now!  )

I'd never seen that either, weren't the 80s so excessive, just thinking about the logistics of that shoot  pre-CGI makes my eyes water
I wont go into the uncomfortable use of a snare drum as a seat or mr Summers using a tv aerial as a guitar

[slinkp]

It was an actual guitar! Of sorts.
From https://www.vintageguitar.com/34671/andy-summers-2/

The post-apocalyptic setting of the video for "Synchronicity II" saw Summers atop a pile of wrecked automobiles, brandishing a Gittler guitar made by the late artist/inventor/musician Allen Gittler in New York City (VG, March '00). Most who saw the video probably thought the skeletal instrument was a prop. "It was an interesting object," said Summers. "I saw it in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I met (Gittler); I went to his apartment in the East Village. I bought one, and eventually sold it. I remember being impressed that it actually did work!"

[ilan]

It was an actual guitar! Of sorts.

It's a Gittler guitar. There were also basses (4 to the best of my knowledge). There's one displayed at the MoMA. Made in New York by Alan Gittler who later moved to Israel in 1982 and made some weird-ass guitars here also. He passed in 2002. A couple of years ago there was an attempt to reissue the guitars and basses in 4 and 5 string models and a very nice looking fretless that I was jonesing for since I saw a pic of the 80s prototype that never went into production.

The Gibson 2020 looks like a very traditional instrument in comparison.

[uwe]

Now that is something different!



I like the fishbone esthetics of it ...



... as if Overend Watts had been very hungry with his fish bass: