| Author | Message | ||
| dnburgess
Advanced Member Username: dnburgess Post Number: 203 Registered: 1-2003 |
I need some help from you creative types. I will be running some magazine ad.s in Australia for Alembic and am interested on club member suggestions for a tag line. So far I like: "Learn to dream differently" I'd like to hear your suggestions. | ||
| effclef
Member Username: effclef Post Number: 67 Registered: 1-2004 |
Fretboard To Heaven. OK, maybe not that one! EffClef | ||
| alemboid
Junior Username: alemboid Post Number: 46 Registered: 5-2003 |
Hmmm. I used to be in marketing for a Fortune 500 hundred company. One way to "sell" a customer is to empower them to believe that they are right. So, instead of suggesting that they dream differently, they should be motivated to dream, period. "When it comes to tone, your dreams come true on an Alembic". Or "From your heart, through your hands, to their ears, Alembic has the tone your dreams are made of". Get the idea? Or the hard sell (as seen in New York)- "You ARE gunna buy dis here bass- right?" (to the sound of the salesman's knuckles cracking). Well, play around with some ideas. Just ask yourself what would motivate you to take a look at an Alembic? ...thoughts... Bryant | ||
| alemboid
Junior Username: alemboid Post Number: 47 Registered: 5-2003 |
Hey, how about this- "Alembic basses, in touch with you" or "Alembic basses- your sound- now". "Your tone, now- Play an Alembic bass". "Do you want to be a laurie driver all your bleedin' life? Buy an Alembic and see the world"....uh, maybe not that one. Bryant | ||
| poor_nigel
Member Username: poor_nigel Post Number: 89 Registered: 7-2003 |
What's a magazine? You mean those old paper things people used to read before the Internet took over the world? I guess anyone who can afford to buy magazines these days can afford to buy an alembic. Words have never sold me like graphics do. Especially if the graphic has someone I want to be like in it. Therefore a quote from Stanley or Mark King would have inpact on me. But mainly, I just look at the pictures. No help here. | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1177 Registered: 9-2002 |
- Get control, get tone, get it all ...get Alembic - the true tool to out your emotions ...Alembic - get Alembicised - How 'deep' is your love ...Alembic - The epic centre can be you ...and your Alembic - ... oh huh ... | ||
| hollis
Member Username: hollis Post Number: 70 Registered: 11-2003 |
When Nothing But The Best Will Do...Alembic Quality Incarnate...Alembic The Music's Inside...Alembic Alembic, The Sound Answer A Slice of Perfection...Alembic Estate of Bliss...Alembic | ||
| adriaan
Intermediate Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 145 Registered: 6-2002 |
No worries mate: down under it's Alembic all the way. (You can tell I'm not the sales person in the family, can't you?) | ||
| kenbass4
Member Username: kenbass4 Post Number: 89 Registered: 10-2003 |
Alembic: What other basses aspire to be | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 300 Registered: 11-2003 |
I'm guessing that you'll be advertising all Alembic products, not just basses? | ||
| elzie
Advanced Member Username: elzie Post Number: 294 Registered: 8-2002 |
"Alembic; The reason strings were invented" Or "Alembic; Every strings dream home" Now here's one that goes out on a limb! "Santa Rosa. Valhalla for trees, heaven for the rest of us" (Message edited by elzie on March 16, 2004) | ||
| kungfusheriff
Member Username: kungfusheriff Post Number: 59 Registered: 8-2003 |
"Played them all? Have the instrument you really want." "The world may not know your name, but they'll know your sound." "Alembic. There is no other." | ||
| the_mule
Junior Username: the_mule Post Number: 28 Registered: 1-2004 |
It's one of my favourite quotes whatsoever, which I also use in my forum-profile, because it describes the 'Alembic-virus' best for me personally. But actually it's from the lyrics of a Guided By Voices song: "The Closer You Are, The Quicker It Hits You" (Message edited by the mule on March 16, 2004) | ||
| bassman10096
Advanced Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 223 Registered: 7-2003 |
This is a violation of a brand name, but I can not resist: "Not all Lamborghinis are cars..." | ||
| adriaan
Intermediate Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 146 Registered: 6-2002 |
Wait a minute ... If not all Lamborghinis are cars then are you not implying that not all Alembics are basses, guitars or pre-amps? And knowing that Lamborghini started building cars as a side-line to its successful line of farm machinery, aren't you comparing Alembics to farm machinery? | ||
| keavin
Junior Username: keavin Post Number: 44 Registered: 12-2002 |
Alembic,wine and roses! (how sweet can a instrument be!)or (the worlds ultamite stringed instrument???)....read more!! | ||
| mint_bass
Member Username: mint_bass Post Number: 65 Registered: 1-2004 |
taken from the alembic explaination of the badge and what an alembic is "the purest of electric guitars and basses available" or "the purest tone that is beyond your dreams" "taste purity play almbic" andrew | ||
| 811952
Intermediate Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 123 Registered: 10-2003 |
Clarity, Brilliance, Perfection... Alembic! | ||
| alembic76407
Advanced Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 268 Registered: 5-2002 |
Alembic, say no more!!!! | ||
| alembic76407
Advanced Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 269 Registered: 5-2002 |
When your tired of owning the rest, own the best, Alembic | ||
| effclef
Member Username: effclef Post Number: 69 Registered: 1-2004 |
Worth Every Penny. | ||
| groovelines
Intermediate Member Username: groovelines Post Number: 161 Registered: 4-2003 |
long, long ago in art school I did an add comp with an SC bass, the logo and the simple text: "Four-String Ferrari". Man, I thought I was brilliant, time has shown otherwise...anyway here goes a few. "Your quest is over." "Don't forget to breathe." "It's okay to touch it." "Go ahead, touch it." "We dare you." "Things to do today: wake up, play, go back to bed." | ||
| keavin
Junior Username: keavin Post Number: 50 Registered: 12-2002 |
"the undisputed king of strings!!!!" | ||
| dnburgess
Advanced Member Username: dnburgess Post Number: 204 Registered: 1-2003 |
Thanks everyone - its not as easy as it looks. Good points, Bryant. I kinda like "How deep is your love." Does anyone know who played bass on those sessions? Along similar lines, how about: "Sweet dreams are made of this." Can anyone think of well known lines from songs played by a famous Alembicians that might work? Come on all you Entwistle fans. No permutations on "Don't get fooled again". | ||
| bassman10096
Advanced Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 229 Registered: 7-2003 |
Adriaan: I had no idea that comparing any product to a Lamborghini could be construed as an insult! As to whether all Alembics are basses, preamps, guitars: Some Alembic products are pickups and other accessories; and some vintage Alembic products are speaker cabinets. Sadly, none are cars (I'd drive one!). Happily, I feel certain that none are farm machinery. But, I guess I didn't know all I thought... Bill | ||
| 811952
Intermediate Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 124 Registered: 10-2003 |
"I feel certain that none are farm machinery." Aw, come on! Don't some farmers have a still hidden out back somewhere? ;-) John | ||
| bassman10096
Advanced Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 233 Registered: 7-2003 |
No doubt they do...but I understand they consider it bad form (and bad luck!) to discuss publicly. So, while we all know them 'stills is out ther' in dem woods, out back, I think we should leave those kind of alembics off the farm machinery inventory (At least the one that 'revenuin' tax feller' gets to see...). Bill | ||
| adriaan
Intermediate Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 147 Registered: 6-2002 |
If you visit a wine museum in France (there's plenty of those around) they usually have an alambic on display. They'll tell you what they did with it, but they won't let you play it. The French are still distilling 'eau de' whatever - beer, wine, fruit, you name it - and they must still be using an alambic-like apparatus for that, I think. If you ever visit the Alsace, Colmar is a good place to start. And if you thought Mel Gibson's protrayal of the passion of Christ was bloody, check out the 15th C. Issenheimer altar by Mathias Grünewald at the Musée d'Unterlinden - nothing new under the sun. (Message edited by Adriaan on March 17, 2004) | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 302 Registered: 11-2003 |
John Paul Jones played Alembic. How about "Rumble On"? | ||
| davehouck
Senior Member Username: davehouck Post Number: 445 Registered: 5-2002 |
David, I looked it up; their guitar player Alan Kendall is listed as the bass player on that album. |
