| Author | Message | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 729 Registered: 4-2004 |
its about time!!!!1- as i said to ron, i think this is the best sounding bass ever made thanks for everything you have given us ron!!!!! you DA MAN!  | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 2132 Registered: 9-2002 |
Excuse me my ignorance ...I guess this is Phil Lesh playing the number 1 again recently??? I thought that bass went to other hands??? Paul TBO | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2647 Registered: 5-2002 |
Paul; if I recall correctly, number 1 was Jack Cassidy's bass. This is not number 1. | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 2133 Registered: 9-2002 |
Vhqè§ç!è"mùq;qjbxc ...DOH ! I always mix up those two!!! Thanks moder Dave PTBO | ||
| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 819 Registered: 7-2003 |
I always doubted Phil would ever put this one back on the road again. He is not known for his loyalty to equipment (even stuff most of us would consider to be first cousin to the holy grail). Here's a link to a discussion of the Godfather, the Osage and other related stuff: http://p096.ezboard.com/fthedudepitfrm32.showMessageRange?topicID=420.topic&start=21&stop=40. Check out the pix and story about the pu's from Phil's Osage bass. At least they are in pretty good hands now. I don't recall where I heard this, but some of you may know that the bass Phil played on Skullf**k and other albums was not the Godfather in either it's pre- or post-Alembicized. It was a modded Gibby EBO with hotrodded bisonic pu's out of a Guild Starfire. Here's a picture (check out the early Alembic bridge hardware):  The EBO was stolen at a gig and disappeared. Following this, the Godfather was created, but the bass responsible for the classic sounds on Bertha, Playing in the Band and Not Fade Away/Goin Down the Road got lost. I always assumed it was the Godfather on Skullf**k till I bought the CD in reissue and it included a picture of the EBO. To make a looooong story short (sorry), some friendly soul came across the EBO in a pawnshop some years after the theft, picked it up for nothing and offered it to Phil for the couple of hundred paid for it. Phil is reputed to have turned it down. Not interested. Not sentimental about equipment. Oh well. Phil and Friends are playing Sunday night down the street from here. Maybe I'll check it out... (Message edited by bassman10096 on November 26, 2005) | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 743 Registered: 4-2004 |
cited on the prowl in chicago for another caution jam | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 745 Registered: 4-2004 |
(Message edited by flaxattack on November 28, 2005) | ||
| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 822 Registered: 7-2003 |
Sounds like a habit. I wonder what's got him playing a short scale 4 string after all this time. | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 747 Registered: 4-2004 |
he does drugs and forgot how good it sounded???? | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1316 Registered: 9-2003 |
He's using it for crazy feedback on the "intro" to "Caution.." Since he doesn't seem to be nostalgic for his equipment, I guess the Modulus VI just doesn't feedback like the 'ole Godfodder. FWIW, I'd like to see/hear the old, 100# 8-million channel-aphonic Alembic Osage Orange bass meself, LOL! | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2658 Registered: 5-2002 |
I would rather play it <g>! | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1326 Registered: 9-2003 |
I'd be too humbled to touch it...given it's owner, I couldn't do the thing justice. |
