Kiwi

[quote name='johnnylager' post='213035' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:46 AM']But the inlays , the correct bridge p/u positioning , they'll flog plenty. And plenty more if they put the S-1 in. Will it have a 3-bolt plate though? [/quote] I think the correct pickup positioning is enough excitement in itself.

[quote name='Nino Valenti' post='213171' date='Jun 5 2008, 01:10 PM']Taste_2000 told me about this place a while back and I looked around but never got a chance to sign up. Better late then never. [/quote] I know, that was the reason for my comment. As you say, better late than never.

[quote name='ped' post='213013' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:16 AM']Kiwi, surely the list price of your graphite Alembic must be astronomical?[/quote] I understand it was incredibly expensive when they were originally made - much more so than a normal Series 1 and those were expensive enough. The selling point was the use of space age materials. But what the list price was and how it translates into todays money I couldn't say. [quote name='birdy' post='213037' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:48 AM']Its up for £5.9k and wasn't ever £6.5k - unless Alex is making a few extra quid on the side :-)[/quote] Well someone I remember mentioned it was £6500, but I can't remember who. F**king gorgeous bass though, and I say that as not being a particularly enthusastic jazz bass player

Well I haven't a clue what some of my instruments are 'worth', however potentially some of them could sell for an awful lot more than I paid for them because they aren't made any more and very few were made anyway. The most I've ever paid for an instrument was my Ken Smith BSR6GN but my Alembic *might* be worth an awful lot more to a collector. Its a lot clearer with new basses like Foderas. Some of them retail for £6k easily. Birdy's '65 Jazz was up for sale at the Gallery for £6.5k.

Ah Nino, welcome. What took you so long?

In terms of what people paid for it, or likely market valuation?

When's Julian Crampton playing next?

lol

what key is that in?

[quote name='david_l_perry' post='211588' date='Jun 3 2008, 09:49 AM']ETS-MK III Headless, rounded, 5-string Bass bridge (15mm spacing as my status)[/quote] Are you sure about that spacing? Status basses usually have spacing around 18mm. Even my Alembic only has 16mm.

[quote name='Sugden' post='211010' date='Jun 2 2008, 11:20 AM']Alans seems pretty happy to tweek his designs according to customer prefrences.[/quote] I'll make a note of that for future reference.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='210738' date='Jun 1 2008, 08:28 PM']I don't know what I was thinking when I sold my Deep Impact [/quote] Don't despair, the values of the Deep Impact pedals will crash as soon as someone comes up with something better.

I'll take the guitar off your hands I was just reading about this stuff the other day and this is an opportunity to whet my curiosity.

A custom body shape?!

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='210785' date='Jun 1 2008, 10:00 PM']That's only 7 miles from where me and Walman live CK so you could've popped in for some tea!! Still, being Bognor, I think you did the right thing!![/quote] [quote name='WalMan' post='210822' date='Jun 1 2008, 10:51 PM']Amen to that [/quote] Hehe, well the rest of the band told me I didn't miss out on anything much. We were playing at a festival there apparently. Next week I'm in Sparsholt, near Winchester if anyone's around there?

[quote name='beerdragon' post='210625' date='Jun 1 2008, 05:36 PM']I aint going to bother doing a revue of the plough inn after crazykiwis gigs. [/quote] Heheh, awwwww go on.

I gig regularly with my Akai Deep Impact. Patch 1 gets used for Chaka Khans 'Ain't Nobody' and the chorus/breakdown in Outkast's "Hey Ya" uses Patch 9, the Moog squelch.

We're in the middle of our crazy season right now. A gig virtually every week right through til September. This week we had 4 gigs but one of them was in Bognor on a Friday and there was simply no way I was going to make soundcheck or even the start of the gig. So I depped it out. So, last Saturdays gig (a bit late I know but there we go) was at Penshurst Place just outside Tonbridge. Its a rambling country pile with various extensions and added-on bits that span the ages dating back to the 13th century We got there and the staff were reasonably helpful and I even had a short chat to her ladyship as she was helping to order people about. The hall we were playing was the large Barons Hall and immediately things weren't ideal as we discovered the best area for the stage, on a raised dias, was on the opposite side of the room from the dancefloor. We looked into setting up by the dancefloor but there was no way that we could have managed to squeeze 10 people in. So we were playing about 15m away from the punters. Not good. This is the view from where we were to the other end, where the punters were. Plus they'd forgotten all about our bottled water and food so we sauntered down the pub and had a meal there instead with the clients agreement. We've invoiced him £195 for that. The crowd weren't that involved, almost as if people were really there out of a sense of duty because half of them left after the meal! Anyway we had two deps on guitar and drums and basically we sounded like sh*t because both were missing cues through most of the songs. The guitarist was busking his way through and the drummer normally played with a metal band so he was a lot heavier than our regular drummer. At one point we started playing Higher and Higher and the guitarist didn't come in 4 bars after the bass so we sat on the groove for another 16 bars while everyone glared at him while he tried to figure out what he needed to do. Eventually I shouted to the singer 'just sing' and off we went. Left a few puzzled looks in the crowd though. Turns out that the caters had their share of problems too with the client leaving things until the last minute. On Tuesday we played the Cafe de Paris just off Leicester Square. Man that place SMELLS! Its very gaudy and baroque inside but we had excellent on stage monitoring which was a bonus. The soundman was great to work with and we managed to set up and sound check inside 90mins (we didn’t need to bring a PA or lighting this time). The party was for a property company to celebrate the 60th birthdays of both the directors and what struck us about this crowd was they were all up for a laugh. Many of them had gone to a lot of trouble to dress up for the late 60’s fancy dress theme. What was great however was that we had our regular drummer and guitarist back and we kicked ass on stage. Tight as Gordon Brown caught between a Morie poll and Bank of England interest rates. Every note was There, all the changes were smooth and the punters went crazy for us. On Friday we played a gig in Bognor but I couldn’t make it because of work commitments. But last night we played a wedding in Bosham, just over from Chichester. We were inside a marquee on Quay meadow for the marriage of a couple of 20 somethings, a large party of their mates and family. The crowd at this gig was even better than Café De Paris, there was no warming up. They were straight out on the dance floor the moment we started playing the first set. Slightly more mistakes on our part than the Café de Paris gig because but nothing too noticeable. At the end of our second set, the crowd went completely mental – it was like being at a rock concert. The girls just stood there grinning sheepishly but loving the attention. They toyed with the crowd a bit and mentioned we were undecided about an encore only for someone from the back of the crowd to yell "PLAY ANYTHING, BUT TURN UP THE BASS!!" The whole room cheered their approval and then we launched into our encore "Think" only to be met with more cheers after we finished. So we played them a slower encore 'Take Another Piece of My Heart' to finish the night off. Awesome, hope we get more gigs with mad but up-for-it punters like that.