| Author | Message | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 523 Registered: 5-2002 |
Who in this club has owned their Alembic for longer than 31 years, I got mine 7-2-76 David T | ||
| wayne
Intermediate Member Username: wayne Post Number: 148 Registered: 5-2002 |
Happy Birthday!!!! :-D C-Ya.....wayne | ||
| rraymond
Advanced Member Username: rraymond Post Number: 293 Registered: 6-2002 |
Absolutely, Happy Birthday, Anniversary or whatever is appropriate! FWIW, I've only been an Alembic owner since June of 1998, but I do still have the Rickenbacker 4001 I bought brand spanking new on March 23, 1974. I've been in band situations with guys younger than my bass! LOL! Congrats again on the bass! | ||
| groovelines
Senior Member Username: groovelines Post Number: 482 Registered: 4-2003 |
Of course David, you couldn't have been more than four or five years of age? ;) | ||
| alembic_doctor
Advanced Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 288 Registered: 8-2002 |
I think my dad got his around the same time. I was 3 or 4 when he got it. BTW. Today is his birthday. Happy Birthday Dad. | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 524 Registered: 5-2002 |
happy birthday to your Dad, Doc. | ||
| mele_aloha
Intermediate Member Username: mele_aloha Post Number: 178 Registered: 1-2007 |
That is a bicentennial Alembic. That was the bicentinnial year of our great nation. I found six gold coins in an old house that I was living in on New Years morning of that year. I was sound proofing the old garage so we could have our band practice there and as I was stuffing insulation in between the studs behind the old toilet, there was a old limberger cheese jar and inside of it was a little jewelers box with sealing wax around it that was kind of worn away. I brushed the albino spiders off the jar and opened it up low and behold in the box were two 20 dollar gold pieces, 2 ten dollar gold pieces, a 5 dollar gold buffalo head and a ten Russian rupel gold piece. I have them right here and looking at them now as I took them out of storage in consideration of maybe having Alembics jeweler carve one piece into the Alembic logo and inlaying it in the headstock of my Mele_Aloha Series II on order right now. Sorry I got a little off track but I wanted to share that with you since I had found those coins on the bicentennial year. My band members were all blown away to say the least as they had all been helping me the day before to sound proof the room. I hope your Alembic has been as lucky a find for you that year as the year was for me. Anyway, congradulations/happy b-day. Paul (Message edited by mele_aloha on July 03, 2007) | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1441 Registered: 2-2006 |
WOW David! You got your first Alembic at age 4? LOL I saw my first Alembic in 1977 but it took almost 30 years to actually get my first Alembic. I do still have my 76 Jazz and 78 Musicman, both of which I bought new in October of their respective years. | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 525 Registered: 5-2002 |
Well Olie, you sure have made up for lost time and to set the record stright, I was 20 years old when I got My Series 1, I drove a $200 Karman Ghia and had a $2000 Bass, what was I thinking? David T | ||
| alembic_doctor
Advanced Member Username: alembic_doctor Post Number: 289 Registered: 8-2002 |
Sounds like you had your priorities straight to me. | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 526 Registered: 5-2002 |
Here's an idea just for fun after 15 years of Alembic Ownership you should be known as (your name Esquier) after 30 years, Knighthood please run this by Queen Mother Susan I should be Sir David T along with other deserving Alembic owners | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1442 Registered: 2-2006 |
I guess I'm still in the peasant mode!  | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 527 Registered: 5-2002 |
Olie, not all of us can be Knight of the Alembic Table LOL maybe after 2 or 3 custom orders exceptions could be made Sir David T | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1443 Registered: 2-2006 |
When I order custom number 3 you've given me and idea of what to name it, "Exaliber". Spare 2 pence for the poor Sire? LOL Olie | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1444 Registered: 2-2006 |
OOPS, make that "Excaliber". A lowly peasant whom can not sppell. Olie | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 528 Registered: 5-2002 |
Olie, how about this for inlay pulling an Alembic out of a boulder or standing on the boulder holding an Alembic by the neck in victory David T | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1445 Registered: 2-2006 |
A Crown head stock goes without saying. | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 2160 Registered: 9-2003 |
Wow! 31 yrs. ago I doubt I could have afforded an Alembic shirt (Tee or otherwise, LOL!), nevermind a new Alembic. | ||
| lembic76450
Intermediate Member Username: lembic76450 Post Number: 111 Registered: 5-2002 |
David, Break everyone's heart and tell them what you paid in '76. BTW, I've had my '76 since '78, 29 years and counting. Kenn | ||
| worldfamousandy
Intermediate Member Username: worldfamousandy Post Number: 102 Registered: 3-2004 |
I got my '76 when I was 19, which was 1988. I guess that means I have had it 19 years. Time flies... Andy Calder www.andycalderbass.com | ||
| howierd
Member Username: howierd Post Number: 66 Registered: 8-2004 |
I got my 77 Series I in feb 1978 for $900.00 Howierd | ||
| dannobasso
Senior Member Username: dannobasso Post Number: 595 Registered: 3-2004 |
Got my 83 in 83 at age 20. I'll be receiving my 16th in 2007. I think that just makes me a whouuuuuurgh. (pronounce with thick Scottish accent) Either that or a glooouuuton for financial endentured servitude. Happy Alembic years to you all. | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1233 Registered: 12-2002 |
28 years & counting!  | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 529 Registered: 5-2002 |
Kenn, I paid $1817.00 new for this bass, and in 76 you could buy a Fender of a Rick in the $400 range Kevin, their's a piece of 76-407 living in Old#12 and that makes me smile peace brother Sir David T | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1242 Registered: 12-2002 |
Hey Dave i thank you again Bro,this alembic stuff aint cheap by no means & living in these chicago suburbs im far away from everything city-wise.......& i don't think it would'of been possible to buy another power cable with these food stamps either!..LOL!! (Message edited by keavin on July 10, 2007) | ||
| terryc
Advanced Member Username: terryc Post Number: 207 Registered: 11-2004 |
Well I am a youngster as I will have owned my Alembic 10 years come Jan 2008 although it was made in 1993. It doesn't seem that long at all..where do the years go | ||
| mele_aloha
Intermediate Member Username: mele_aloha Post Number: 193 Registered: 1-2007 |
Here's my Excel which is almost 10!  | ||
| alembic76407
Senior Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 530 Registered: 5-2002 |
Paul, Ten years in paradise is like a life time for most people I would to own an Excel, thats a sweet bass Sir David T | ||
| fish
Member Username: fish Post Number: 51 Registered: 6-2006 |
I am still a newbie here, however this one has been with me for 23 years.  | ||
| fish
Member Username: fish Post Number: 52 Registered: 6-2006 |
BTW, I paid $850.00 for it new. It took me another 6 months to afford the extra $100 for the case. | ||
| inthelows
Advanced Member Username: inthelows Post Number: 377 Registered: 11-2006 |
Love the grain on that top Fish! Nicely aged too! Sir Knights, squires, peasants and even chamber-pot holders, anyone who has chosen the Alembic Banner on which to terry-forth..ooh-raah! NLP | ||
| jet_powers
Advanced Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 332 Registered: 2-2003 |
I paid roughly $1000 for my Exploiter in 1999 and another $250 for the case. Plus mine isn't as pretty as this one.... JP |
