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carlos shilinsky (shilinsky)
Junior
Username: shilinsky

Post Number: 16
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 4:23 pm:   Edit Post

Im wondering if someone can recomend me some cds where the bass players uses an alembic,i got some stanley and level 42, so if some one has another i would apreciatte.

Thanks
Daniel Tracey (dannobasso)
Junior
Username: dannobasso

Post Number: 32
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 6:05 am:   Edit Post

I heard the the latest Chili Peppers was done with an Elan, Nazareth Live, Alan Holdsworth with Jimmy Johnson, Dixie Dregs with Andy West, Planet X's latest with Jimmy Johnson as a guest player, ask some Dead Heads about which albums Lesh used his Alembics, Metallica Live before Jason Newstead went to bolt ons, just to name a few.
James L. Martin (malthumb)
Member
Username: malthumb

Post Number: 59
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 8:55 am:   Edit Post

Here's a link to the thread from the first time this question was asked. There's some good stuff listed here.

http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/2451.html
Brian Ceasar (bbe1020)
Member
Username: bbe1020

Post Number: 64
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:52 am:   Edit Post

Oops...I put my post on the wrong thread!(archives november 2002) Anyhow, visit www.stanleyclarke.com/interactive
David Burgess (dnburgess)
Junior
Username: dnburgess

Post Number: 12
Registered: 1-2003
Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 3:47 pm:   Edit Post

Check out the references on eBay for the sale of Dee Murray's bass - reads like a greatest hits of the 70's & 80's
Paul Lindemans (palembic)
Advanced Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 288
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 1:18 am:   Edit Post

Brian (if you use two threads, me too!) ;-),

in theory € is about = $. Assumed as a LOCAL puchase.
Those guys denying the Alembic sound are PARTIALLY right. I mean "ex post" = after the facts. In the time Stanley Clarke started it's playing the sound he wanted could only be achieved with an Alembic, guitar + filters. I agree that that sound can now be imitated fairly easy with a bass combined with the appropriate filters. However, it's difficult to get the Alembic sound if you keep the amp and filters as given. I mean: plug an Alembic in and tweak around with the knobs ON YOUR GUITAR and after that plug in the Suyawacko XL5 (or whatever) and start tweaking on that guitar.
You will never have the same sound.
And certainly NOT compared with a SI or SII.

Paul

BTW: I saw SC only two times on TV-registered performances. I never saw him playing an Alembic but although ...he sounded as SC.

PS: thanks for the web-info.
Hey all Alembicians, brother and sisters unite agianst Alembic denial (LOL)
Joey Wilson (bigredbass)
Member
Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 54
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 11:03 am:   Edit Post

Of course, the quick slice of Alembic tone:

John McVie, in Fleetwood's "The Chain"; towards the end of the tune where the other instruments drop out and he begins the repeating figure on out through the coda of the song. A Fleetwood classic by a long time Alembic user.

Joey Wilson
Charles "David" Tichenor (alembic76407)
Intermediate Member
Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 101
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 11:10 am:   Edit Post

let's not leave out Steven Jay (Weird Al's) bass player, he has played Alembic basses for years
Jonathan Johnstone (stoney)
Intermediate Member
Username: stoney

Post Number: 113
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 5:01 am:   Edit Post

Pick up The Who's "Quadrophenia". John uses both 4 and 8-string Alembics throughout the album.
Gerald E. Greene (flash)
Junior
Username: flash

Post Number: 15
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 7:41 pm:   Edit Post

Hey ya'll check out BET. there's a Stanley Clarke Scholorship concert on there that is out of this world :o There are a bunch of our bass brothers with him that's worth checking out... Man it's bad!!!
he's using his new tenor bass too, the one on the front cover of bass player mag....talk about great sound!!!

peace

Flash

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