One Jazz Bass to forever pacify the Undecided ...

uwe · April 23, 2012, 06:28:21 AM

Are you fed up with not knowing whether your fancy-pants boutique Jazz needs an alder or ash or mahogany with bubinga top body? An aged Fender, an EBMM or a boutique look? Forever undecided whether you want a plain aged maple neck, one with block inlays, a rosewood one or a rosewood one with block inlays? Craving for that Jazz Bass single coil sound, but that Stingray growl is just too tempting too? Why compromise or call a dozen different J variations your own? Your quest is over ...

It's not photoshopped (although that is how it started out, but then someone wanted it for real and now the Sandberg Custom Shop builds it):

Probably you can even get a good sound on and play nice things with it, though Herr Duffy miraculously fails to do either for eleven minutes here

, this with all due respect to his chops, well, I guess the Salsa two-hand-tapping he does around 3.50 is nice:

Dave W · April 23, 2012, 08:51:52 AM

Who would actually buy this? It's a cute joke, but it's still a joke. Maybe it comes with a bag you can put over your head if you dare play it on stage.

Never heard of Uriah Duffy. He's technically proficient. Hopefully he also knows how to hold down the bottom end.

Pilgrim · April 23, 2012, 08:58:47 AM

I'd sure play that on stage before I'd play a lot of metal and other basses. Sure, it's a visual patchwork, but at least it's a creative one.

gweimer · April 23, 2012, 09:19:15 AM

Probably sounds like every other bass...

rahock · April 23, 2012, 09:32:09 AM

Quote from: Dave W on April 23, 2012, 08:51:52 AM
Who would actually buy this? It's a cute joke, but it's still a joke. Maybe it comes with a bag you can put over your head if you dare play it on stage.

If it came with a suit to match you'd really have something going on

. In which case I would definatetly use the bag.
Rick

exiledarchangel · April 23, 2012, 11:09:03 AM

Hide it quick, before Gibson see it!

uwe · April 23, 2012, 11:28:57 AM

Herr Duffy is - would you believe - one of the many "come and go"-bassists of Herr Coverdale's backing band Whitesnake. He didn't last long. One album and one world tour. Before that he played with Sly Stone, hence the funk style. None of that was apparent with Whitesnake where he played meat and potatoes hard rock bass, but he was probably hired for his looks.

Supposedly a nice guy, my son got to meet him when he was shopping at a clothes boutique while Whitesnake were in Frankfurt.

His first name actually is Uriah. When Coverdale asked him whether his parents were Charles Dickens fans, he is supposed to have shrugged: "No, they came from the Philippines and have never heard of Charles Dickens, but they were fans of the band Uriah Heep!"

I guess it's better than being called "Led", "Deep", "Reo" or "Blue"!

PS: I respect the craftsmanship in that bass. It's supposed to feel absolutely seamless. And there is a 2.500 Euro surcharge for this version (bringing the bass above the 4.000 Euro region) due to the additional work. So you really have to want it.

Basvarken · April 23, 2012, 12:55:47 PM

they should have made it half fretless, half fretted

gearHed289 · April 23, 2012, 01:40:28 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on April 23, 2012, 12:55:47 PM
they should have made it half fretless, half fretted

Aw, you beat me to it!

godofthunder · April 23, 2012, 02:48:22 PM

Blech!

TBird1958 · April 23, 2012, 03:20:23 PM

And somehow I didn't think it was possibly to a Jazz Bass any uglier.........

I stand corrected

Aussie Mark · April 23, 2012, 05:21:12 PM

Musicman should build something like that for the douches on the EBMM forum who are so indecisive that they start polls asking advice about which colour they should buy.

drbassman · April 23, 2012, 05:43:23 PM

What a riot! A really ugly bass and torturous droning of bass playing that would fit into what music or song? I tried listening to bass soloists like Stu Hamm and others and it's mind numbing (for me) to listen to solo bass playing after 10 minutes. I just can't get into it and it bores me to tears. I feel the same about drum solos that last for more than 90 seconds. Give me a bass that is an integral part of a team of musicians any day!

gweimer · April 23, 2012, 05:56:56 PM

Quote from: drbassman on April 23, 2012, 05:43:23 PM
What a riot! A really ugly bass and torturous droning of bass playing that would fit into what music or song? I tried listening to bass soloists like Stu Hamm and others and it's mind numbing (for me) to listen to solo bass playing after 10 minutes. I just can't get into it and it bores me to tears. I feel the same about drum solos that last for more than 90 seconds. Give me a bass that is an integral part of a team of musicians any day!

That's why I went the way of Jamerson, and have never cared for Jaco.

Pilgrim · April 23, 2012, 06:08:54 PM

Quote from: gweimer on April 23, 2012, 05:56:56 PM
That's why I went the way of Jamerson, and have never cared for Jaco.

Full props to Wooten, Jaco and others. I'll stick with Jamerson and Duck Dunn.