« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Mont Campbell's mystery bass  (Read 2929 times)

Pekka

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 668
    • View Profile
    • Riverdog Samson
Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« on: June 09, 2012, 12:53:21 AM »
Mont who? The great Egg and National Health bassist/composer of course, goes by the name of Dirk Campbell nowadays. Anyway, the only pic I found is rather small:


Any ideas of the bass? Maybe something of an UK origin?
Logged

Pekka

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 668
    • View Profile
    • Riverdog Samson
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 08:56:43 AM »
Finally found a decent pic:


Some japanese mystery bass perhaps.
Logged

Chris P.

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5247
  • Warwickhoer
    • View Profile
    • The La La Lies
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2013, 09:49:50 AM »
Looks like an early Burns? Or Burns-Weill? Don't got my Burns book here...
Logged

Chris P.

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5247
  • Warwickhoer
    • View Profile
    • The La La Lies
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2013, 09:52:14 AM »
Logged

Pekka

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 668
    • View Profile
    • Riverdog Samson
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 10:47:51 AM »
Logged

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 04:02:35 PM »
Whoah, now that is an ugly beastie...
Logged
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

Pekka

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 668
    • View Profile
    • Riverdog Samson
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2013, 10:31:02 PM »
Quote from: HERBIE on March 20, 2013, 04:02:35 PM
Whoah, now that is an ugly beastie...

Yes. Mont was such a handsome bastard for a Canterbury scene progster he could play even that ugly bass and get the ladies (if they were any in the audience).:)
Logged

ilan

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3898
    • View Profile
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2013, 08:57:10 AM »
This must be the earliest "humped" bass. Gruesome as all of them.
Logged
The guy who bought the same bass twice — first in 1977 and again in 2023

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: Mont Campbell's mystery bass
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2013, 01:02:04 PM »
I think that is the ugliest bass I have ever seen!
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »