| Author | Message | ||
| malthumb
Senior Member Username: malthumb Post Number: 535 Registered: 5-2002 |
Yesterday (Saturday, Aug 11, 2012) the 2nd Annual Detroit Bass Players Photo Shoot took place in front of the Motown Museum. The event sprang from a Facebook group for Detroit bassists. Last year someone had the idea to recreate the famous photo of Harlem Renaissance era jazz musicians photographed in front of a Harlem brownstone. The idea was, let's all meet at the Motown Museum, bring your favorite bass and we';ll take the photo. It went over so well that now it will be an annual event. I missed it last year, but this year I attended with my two kids. And of course, I just happened to take an Alembic with me. Mica may even have some recollection of the Music Man bass my oldest son is showing.  | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 865 Registered: 6-2006 |
very cool James! | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10847 Registered: 5-2002 |
That's a great picture! | ||
| funkyjazzjunky
Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky Post Number: 807 Registered: 5-2007 |
James, Will you adopt me and give me a great bass to play? VMG | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 310 Registered: 1-2011 |
Great picture, James. My daughters and I were there, but could not stick around for the photo shoot. Here is another picture that was emailed to me.  | ||
| artswork99
Moderator Username: artswork99 Post Number: 1780 Registered: 7-2007 |
Nice! | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10868 Registered: 5-2002 |
That's a lot of bass players! Cool picture! | ||
| eligilam
Advanced Member Username: eligilam Post Number: 386 Registered: 2-2006 |
Great pic...like a Where's Waldo of bass. I see some of the usual suspects (Fenders, MusicMans [two Bongos, actually], Ibanezes)--and a few nontypical axes in there. Can someone ID the round green one (second row to right of middle) and angular white one (second row far right)? | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 311 Registered: 1-2011 |
The Green bass belongs to Emily Rogers.  (Message edited by billostech on August 19, 2012) (Message edited by davehouck on August 20, 2012) | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 312 Registered: 1-2011 |
The White bass belongs to Michael Rich. Both are local artist:  (Message edited by billostech on August 19, 2012) | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2596 Registered: 5-2009 |
Cool ! | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 313 Registered: 1-2011 |
Here is a link to where Emily discusses her bass build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LlU7GX1FmU&feature=youtube_gdata_player | ||
| funkyjazzjunky
Senior Member Username: funkyjazzjunky Post Number: 810 Registered: 5-2007 |
I love Emily's build. Her bass is nice too | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 871 Registered: 6-2006 |
I agree, that is a nice body shape which seems like it would balance well . . . | ||
| eligilam
Advanced Member Username: eligilam Post Number: 387 Registered: 2-2006 |
Okay, now I'm also curious about the orange bass with the interesting "cutout" areas as well. The headstock on the white one looks like a Travis Bean or possibly Kramer. Are both of these custom jobs? | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 315 Registered: 1-2011 |
Yes. The Orange one belongs to Mr. William Pope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvPTIw7Ntw&sns=em | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5209 Registered: 7-2004 |
Definitely Kramer. Travis Bean had a closed headstock with a "T" shaped hole in it. The two prong open headstock is Kramer. Bill, tgo | ||
| fmm
Advanced Member Username: fmm Post Number: 357 Registered: 6-2002 |
Could be a Vaccaro, who bought the Kramer neck design when Kramer folded. | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 316 Registered: 1-2011 |
Vaccaro confirmed on Mike's facebook post | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 320 Registered: 1-2011 |
Here is a message Mike sent me about hIs bass: " Michael Rich 8:20pm Sep 9 you asked me about my bass so let me tell you my story. Vaccaro took over kramer and designed a new neck. I was on disablilty (due to a broken arm) at the time and I found out they had open shop in NJ. I called them and asked if I could get a tour and if i could buy a finished neck. years before i designed and copywrote the body design and i decided to marry the two. we had an awsome day and he told me all od the storys including the michael jackson drama way before it happened. well before i could finish the company closed shop. I at the the time was an electronic techinican so i knew guitar electronics. I studied with anderson howard who was a student of lamont johnson so I understood bass construction. the body is my answer to fender's model. everything about it is based on a jazz / musicman... but with a twist. It has G&L passive pickups to give it the musicman kick but it has an active 3 band parametric eq preamp that I found in germany. the bridge used ibanez monorail detuner on each string but i found out you can't do that because the calibration was too sensitive. i installed a badass to compenstate. the next model will have a warwick bridge. just for show there is a programable led readout that will scroll a message while i am playing. i thought it would give the viewer a spaceage experiance. this model is made of basswood but i am using swamp ash for the next model. the paint job is a custom car paint with sparkles but the next model will be chrome to match the head stock. " | ||
| wylie_j
New Username: wylie_j Post Number: 10 Registered: 8-2005 |
Luv the pictures! where is the girl in the green from? she's a cutie! | ||
| wylie_j
Junior Username: wylie_j Post Number: 11 Registered: 8-2005 |
Yes that white bass sure does look like the "Kramer" | ||
| billostech
Advanced Member Username: billostech Post Number: 321 Registered: 1-2011 |
Wylie, Here is Emily's facebook page; http://www.facebook.com/emilyonbass btw, one of the photos made this issue of Bass Players magazine |
