Tiran Porter

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Author Message jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 264 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 4:25 am:    All the years I've been a fan of the Doobie Brothers, i hadn't realised Tiran had used an Alembic till today. A quick troll through the internet turned up this pic of a very nice series bass. graeme davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2132 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 5:53 am:    Cool! Were you able to determine when the picture was taken? jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 265 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 5:57 am:    According to Doobfan - http://doobfan.com/photos/tempe/ it was Tempe, Arizona, 1974. I spent most of the morning hunting for pictures but only came up with this page. graeme davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2134 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 6:20 am:    This one looks like an Alembic, except a few of the features don't look right. jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 266 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 6:27 am:    Could've replaced the bridge for some reason, maybe a tremeloe (with the arm removed). looks like it might be a fan headstock. If it's not Alembic it's a pretty good triple 'O' copy. Graeme basstard Intermediate Member Username: basstard Post Number: 141 Registered: 3-2003 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 12:27 pm:    The headstock makes me think it might be a Kenneth Lawrence bass... bigideas Junior Username: bigideas Post Number: 44 Registered: 1-2004 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 5:16 pm:    a few of Kenneth Lawrence's first basses looked very very much like Alembics in body shape so i'm sure that's what it is. davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2139 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 5:19 pm:    Thanks! 2400wattman Junior Username: 2400wattman Post Number: 48 Registered: 11-2005 Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 8:29 pm:    Bec-Var strikes again? bigredbass Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 624 Registered: 9-2002 Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 9:11 pm:    After reading the Lawrence section in "American Basses": KL really admired ALEMBICs and the work of Harry Fleishmann, learned a lot of his craft working for Steve at MOONSTONE. He built several early in his career that were along the lines of the bass Tiran is playing in the picture, obviously ALEMBIC-inspired. In fact a picture of one of his basses in that book looks a lot like the bass with Tiran. He's of course gone on to find his own style and is building terrific instruments and doing wonderful inlay work, one axe at a time by himself. J o e y