Peter Cook Bass for sale (sort of...) Entwistle link...

[Highlander]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ned-callan-bass_W0QQitemZ170384407310QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item27abb3bb0e&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Ned Callan bass, almost certainly built by Peter Cook, but with a reserve not met and as a double neck "Firebird" went for less than £500...

I'd buy her for curiosity value (as stable mate for my T'bird, but no damn cash...!) as these were endorsed by JAE...

[clankenstein]

interesting looking pickup on there i wonder what it is.

[Basvarken]

Very cool Ken!

reminds me a lot of this:

[Dave W]

Ken, what's the connection between Ned Callan and Peter Cook?

[Hornisse]

Very cool bass with the JE connection.  Are you anywhere nearby the seller to be able and check out the bass?

[Chris P.]

The strange thing is that I've only seen pics of JAE with that bass in the adverts, but I have never seen pics of him playing it live.

[Saf]

love the looks of that bass

[Highlander]

Dave and Chris... Peter Cook built this range of basses (probably how JAE got involved and why there are no live pics) for "Ned Callan", as well as a (Shaftsbury) Ned Callan guitar nicknamed the "Nobbly Ned" - there was one up for sale but has now dropped off... not a pretty instrument... "day-job" work to pay the bills I was led to believe... got a pic somewhere...

Hornisse... about a 2 hour drive...

Rob... I've always thought that too...

Tony... Peter Cook had his own pups (or something made for him, stamped on the casing with his name, and potted with a white ceramic like compound), so it may have been one of his... If I ever locate the remains of the damaged one or the the other "working" one I'll post for opinions, but for the life of me...

and Saf... I agree...

Can someone buy her and keep her safe until I get rich...?  

EDIT
this is the link to the "Nobbly Ned"...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270455064418&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

The addendum at the bottom of the unsold item notes that "Ned Callan" was a nickname used by Peter Cook...? - didn't know that, also a reference to a "CODY" bass version, also used by JAE...?

A FURTHER EDIT WHEN I SHOULD HAVE SHUT THIS THING DOWN AND GONE TO BED BUT GOT SIDETRACKED AND NOW IT'S GONE ONE...
from the "Shergold" website...
Ned Callan" - A pseudonym for British custom luthier Peter Cook. Shergold were commisioned to make these guitars that were designed by Peter. Shergold are known to have produced both the "Cody" and "Hombre" under this arrangement. Due to their "distinctive" (read weird, though not displeasing) appearance these guitars quickly earned the nickname of "nobbly Neds".


AN OMG EDIT WHEN I DEF SHOULD HAVE GONE...
On sale at ANDY's in London...
http://www.andysguitarnet.com/component/option,com_adsmanager/page,show_ad/adid,271/catid,2/Itemid,1/
Ned Callan SG Leftie... not dated correctly, I think...

DONT ASK...

http://www.shergold.co.uk/collection.html?detail=EntwistleNC6
Definite JAE link...


JAE's 6 string bass, made by Peter Cook...

and, of course, probably the most famous Peter Cook instrument...

[SKATE RAT]

that first one is way cool.!

[Dave W]

So nobody has ever seen Ned Callan and Peter Cook in the same room at the same time. 

Sort of like how no one has ever seen Suzi Quatro and Rick Derringer in the same room at the same time. 

[Chris P.]

What is the Who Sotheby's catalogue? I have the Entwistle Sotheby's catalogue, but someone borrowed it:(

[Highlander]

Do some research my boy... 

Bummer re the "borrowed" copy...

"CALLAN", starring Peter Cook, as Ned Callan... 

Suzi's holdin' out quite well, either that or the botox... 

[Dave W]

I'll bet Ned Callan is every bit as real as Jay Turser and Carlo Robelli. 

[Highlander]

Sorry Dave... excuse my ignorance on that one...?

I reckon the seller's got too high a reserve and no-one will be willing to try and find out... been wrong before... very few will even know who he is/was... the guitar didn't sell...

[Dave W]

I meant that AFAIK Jay Turser and Carlo Robelli are just brand names, not real people.