| Author | Message | ||
| Googe Endeveronte (goooge)
Junior Username: goooge Post Number: 18 Registered: 8-2002 |
i think this is called a scorpion (?) shape. lifted from greg's website  | ||
| jlpicard
Senior Member Username: jlpicard Post Number: 413 Registered: 7-2002 |
and another with a 4 string this time.  | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 3563 Registered: 5-2002 |
Nice pic of a nice bass! | ||
| olieoliver
Intermediate Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 190 Registered: 2-2006 |
That second pic is a cool looking bass. What kind of top is that? | ||
| byoung
Advanced Member Username: byoung Post Number: 247 Registered: 12-2004 |
I'm guessing zebrawood, based on the really straight grain-- and the stage lighting produces the trippy look. Brad | ||
| apdavis
Junior Username: apdavis Post Number: 47 Registered: 5-2004 |
Video with the 8 string scorpion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtVhVRHFb8 | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 3935 Registered: 5-2002 |
Cool!! | ||
| s_wood
Advanced Member Username: s_wood Post Number: 247 Registered: 5-2002 |
From 1978:  | ||
| eligilam
Junior Username: eligilam Post Number: 48 Registered: 2-2006 |
The four-string version of that Scorpion in the last picture is now my official Excalibur. Time to start planning some sort of LA freeway armored truck heist. Will, aka. Waynegrow | ||
| lysosome
Intermediate Member Username: lysosome Post Number: 128 Registered: 1-2006 |
I was browsing YouTube earlier and saw this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJlpOQf4rYA He's playing the 8 string scorpion-style bass picture above. Not really any good shots of the bass in the clip, but you can sure hear it! | ||
| mario_farufyno
Advanced Member Username: mario_farufyno Post Number: 239 Registered: 9-2008 |
Love hear him singing! | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 1781 Registered: 10-2003 |
Wait a second. I recall that the "Pirate" 8-string bass had a hidden hum-canceller! Are there two? Or am I simply mistaken? John | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 2597 Registered: 6-2002 |
Bump. Just been watching some Emerson Lake & Palmer on you tube. this bass is in use in these clips. Fanfare for the common man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLWgrr671g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q698uWIrWmU&feature=related Jazzyvee | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1714 Registered: 11-2004 |
ELP..saw them in 1974 preforming the Brain Salad Surgery show at Wembley, Carl Palmer had a Stainless steel drum kit made by British Steel, when he asked what thickness of shells he wanted he said 1/4"..consequently it weighed about 5 tons and had to have a reinforced plinth for it to stand on plus his tympans, church bell and the huge chinese gong..70's excess rock eh?? | ||
| jcdlc72
Intermediate Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 115 Registered: 11-2009 |
However, when I opened for ASIA some months ago here in Caracas, Palmer (had to) play with a run-of-the-mill Pearl kit that was provided by the backline rental company. Times (and excesses) change, huh?. | ||
| moonliner
Intermediate Member Username: moonliner Post Number: 142 Registered: 12-2004 |
Here are a couple of pics from my ELP tour program from 1977. Not the best resolution, and odd that they flipped the one image, presumably for 'artistic' reasons for the mid-book layout. This bass is one of the instruments that began my love affair with Alembic. :-)  | ||
| andy3hal
New Username: andy3hal Post Number: 23 Registered: 2-2013 |
Around six years ago I watched two ELP dvd's, this resulted in a complete obsession to own an Alembic Scorpion, will attach the pictures that I have of Greg and Alembic, may take a couple of posts.        [moderator's edit for picture alignment] (Message edited by adriaan on May 02, 2013) | ||
| andy3hal
Junior Username: andy3hal Post Number: 24 Registered: 2-2013 |
theres more !!!             [edited for picture alignment] (Message edited by adriaan on May 05, 2013) | ||
| chuckc
Intermediate Member Username: chuckc Post Number: 101 Registered: 7-2004 |
Does anyone know how the "Pirate" Scorpion ended up in John Entwistle's collection at the Sotheby's auction?? I have heard various stories that Greg Lake may have given this to John at some point and ended up being auctioned off upon his death. | ||
| senmen
Senior Member Username: senmen Post Number: 1105 Registered: 7-2003 |
The Pirate Scorpion with serial 79 1300 was auctioned in the John Entwistle auction at Sothebys for GBP 10800. Greetz Oliver (Spyderman) | ||
| senmen
Senior Member Username: senmen Post Number: 1106 Registered: 7-2003 |
...and here the picture of the auction lot:  Greetz Oliver (Spyderman) | ||
| senmen
Senior Member Username: senmen Post Number: 1107 Registered: 7-2003 |
...but as you can see, it is a different one than the one pictured above.... Oliver (Spyderman) | ||
| chuckc
Intermediate Member Username: chuckc Post Number: 102 Registered: 7-2004 |
Thanks Oliver, they are in fact 2 different basses, though similar in design except for, obviously, the top woods, the headstock, the hum cancelling p/u,the bridge and what appears to be a rotary selector near the lower horn. I wonder where the story came from that Greg had either given or sold this to John? And where is the original now?? | ||
| that_sustain
Intermediate Member Username: that_sustain Post Number: 156 Registered: 8-2012 |
The Omega bass, 2nd pic down....wow. | ||
| senmen
Senior Member Username: senmen Post Number: 1108 Registered: 7-2003 |
And this one, the ex Sothebys one , also has a graphite neck... Greetz Oliver (Spyderman) | ||
| moonliner
Intermediate Member Username: moonliner Post Number: 145 Registered: 12-2004 |
I read a story online where Greg was saying the headstock had a tendency to break (on the wood one) because of the tension and he finally sold it to JE as a collectors piece. Not sure if there's any truth in that. Isn't one of them in a Hardrock Cafe somewhere? |
