Need a bass ID'd

[gweimer]

I came across this.  Not only do I not quite recognize the brand of the double-neck, but the bass work is really pretty cool.

Anyone?



Another video - maybe Guild?


Oh, and the bass player is Tom Dawes.

[Dave W]

That's a Gretsch Bikini doubleneck.

[hollowbody]

That's a Bikini alright.  I was lucky enough to try one out last fall.  Very strange feeling instrument.

[Chris P.]

Yep, A Gretsch Bikini. If I'm right you can exchange necks in an easy way?

[gweimer]

Cool!  Thanks!

[rahock]

You guys blow me away , I've never seen or  even heard of one of these and you came up with that in no time at all.
Rick

[Dave W]

When these came out in 1961 I was taking guitar lessons at a Gretsch dealer. Otherwise I might have missed them, AFAIK they were a failure in the market, there weren't that many made.

Chris is right, the neck shafts could slide in and out of the body, and the body wings were hinged so they could fold up.

1961 Gretsch catalog page

[uwe]

Hey, those guys made nasty lyrics! Is this true sixties stuff or just made to sound and look like it?

[rahock]

Chris is right, the neck shafts could slide in and out of the body, and the body wings were hinged so they could fold up.

1961 Gretsch catalog page

WTF, did they play these things on aircraft carriers?
Rick

[Rob]

Hey, those guys made nasty lyrics! Is this true sixties stuff or just made to sound and look like it?

Real

[Dave W]

Hey, those guys made nasty lyrics! Is this true sixties stuff or just made to sound and look like it?

Nasty?

You never heard of The Cyrkle? They were too poppy for the times but it helped to be discovered and managed by Brian Epstein. They opened for The Beatles. Their career pretty much died with Epstein.

These were their two big hits. They didn't write either of them.

WTF, did they play these things on aircraft carriers?
Rick

You got me there. Who knows what their designers were thinking. With the failure of the Gibson modernistic series, you would think they would have known better than to do something different and modern.

[uwe]

Red Rubber Ball sounds outright cynical to me and very sneaky in its sunny arrangement.

[dadagoboi]

Red Rubber Ball sounds outright cynical to me and very sneaky in its sunny arrangement.

Written by Paul Simon, pretty much what would you expect lyrically.

[rahock]

The Cyrkle did a lot of ads for Shure mics. For a year or two their vocals were ranked up there with the best .
Rick

[Dave W]

Written by Paul Simon, pretty much what would you expect lyrically.

And co-written by one of The Seekers (Bruce Woodley), who later recorded it as an album cut. IIRC Woodley and Simon wrote several together.