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the_mule
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Username: the_mule

Post Number: 185
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Friday, July 30, 2004 - 9:14 am:   Edit Post

Stanley Clarke is abroad, he played a really nice gig at 'our' North Sea Jazz Festival a few weeks ago actually. But what is this? If he's indeed being robbed (again) by one of his own people, that's a bloody shame...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137684&page=1&pp=20

Wilfred
the_mule
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Post Number: 192
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 11:26 am:   Edit Post

Well, if you check the link now, there's a message of mr. Ken Smith about this. Looks like it's an honest sale, and I guess it's a good sign that Stanley isn't selling any Alembics!

Wilfred
mdrdvp
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Username: mdrdvp

Post Number: 129
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 1:50 am:   Edit Post

Wilfred,

Stanley Clarke is not being robbed. It is an honest sale, pretty low prices I must say :-) So if you have a couple of buckets filled with money left, or maybe one of those money trees in your garden
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=3741675736&rd=1

Manfred
811952
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Post Number: 237
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 8:31 am:   Edit Post

I've played a few of those basses, and I hated them. There are some interesting conceptual features for the time period, but extremely un-Alembic in feel and tone. The Bass Center had four or five (out of the production run of 99 built for "friends" if memory serves) and they were just awful, in my opinion. I got to play another one in Hollywood three summers ago just to see if they really were as bad as I remembered, and it was. Yuck. It would be cool to own for the Stanley factor (I do wish I had picked one up back in the day for cheap), but anyone wishing to emulate The Stan simply won't be able to do it with one of these, in my opinion. Get an Alembic SC instead.
John

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