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Congratulations with the bass ...looks like a very inspiring instrument ! That action looks too good to be true :-)

Traded for a nice '66 Fender Jazz...

Thanks, I'll see how it goes.. not really expecting to sell this within a day. These are expensive basses and you have to find just the right person at the right time ànd with that amount of cash so luck has something to do with it.
When I use other basses like my Wal, Pedulla or Fender Jazz, they also have a different feel. Alembics are really a league of their own.
If a sale doesn't go through maybe a trade brings a solution. There's no hurry.

Thanks for the information... i'll think about your proposition. I do love buckeye burl.
I'll first see what this post might arouse. (it's still not easy to find the right words in English when you're native Belgian :-)) I wanted to write "proposal" but I knew something wasn't right...

Thanks !
Luckily it doesn't really hàve to go (I enjoy it a lot in my living room) but there is a luxury problem :-)

I bought this bass just a couple of months ago from a Belgian bass-player and I believe this also used to belong to BC-member Alanbass.
I always wanted to have a bass like this and in my opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful basses ever.
When I bought it the previous owner told me that he rarely played it and that he only looked at it and saw it as a beautiful thing like a painting.
I told him that I wanted to play it and use it and that I wasn't intimidated by its looks or prestige.
It turned out I was wrong : it's a funny thing but after four live gigs with this instrument I know what he means. I am blown away by the sound and just last weekend I got compliments from bass-players in the audience but I just don't feel at ease with this thing, it's a bit too posh and in contradiction with my old Wal or Fender I am terrified to damage it. Not easy to explain but you have to force yourself to take this bass to a pub-gig and that's the sort of gigs I've been doing the last months. That pointy thing also forces me to bring a bass stand along and that is something I rarely do. I also want to say that these basses have long necks, this is not a short scale.
I have owned around 100 basses but it's the first time I sell an instrument because it looks too good (...)
So I find myself putting this for sale (although a trade is also possible)
It's a Mark King Standard, serial number 02MJ12900 (build in 2002), it has red leds along the side, I actually don't know what sort of wood it's made of (if someone could help me out). It has all the Alembic-sound ingredients and with the help of the filters countless sounds are possible.
From a Clarke-twang to a funky slap to great mids, it has it all. There are no scratches or anything, this thing has really been taken care of (you hàve to..)
There is a pre-shaped case for this great bass and it can be picked up (there's a Eurostar to Brussels) or send.
I'm asking 3150 euros...it doesn't really have to go but if I could have something which I can take along a bit more, I would feel more at ease
Trades : Fodera Monarch VW, Fodera Imperial (if possible not a 5 string but who knows) or perhaps a sixties Fender Jazz. Some cash to even out the differences can all be discussed. For any questions, feel free to email me.
Thanks for looking..

He makes me want to own a fretted Pedulla...he's a great player and he doesn't sound like other famous bassplayers (he escaped a bit from the Jaco-herd)

I noticed that times changed a lot...when I started playing bass many years ago it became a habit that after the gig musicians would check the gear and ask me questions.
Nowadays (since more than ten years) I hardly get any questions anymore, it has become very rare.
In the eighties it was a more bass-orientated time with special basses like Wal, Jaydee and gear like Trace Elliot.
It has become more dull around here and no one is interested anymore, you see the same Fenders and Ampegs everywhere and young bass players seem to be less curious (I would love to know what Epifani is, where it comes from, etc but not too many players have the same attitude)
I still check gear and remember it for years ...

It's hard to see but was or is there a sort of plastic pickguard mounted on this bass ?
Beautiful instrument, just the thing I hoped I wouldn't come across on bass-sites..:-)
Very tempting...I used to own a Monarch but the more simple version without the expanded electronics.
Fastest neck I have ever played, like you had to do less effort..

Fischer Z songs (So Long, Room Service, Pretty Paracetamol)


First time I really noticed bass : Mrs Vanderbilt-Paul McCartney

I would buy this in an instant but I already have a fretless Lefay 5-string...I do have a Pedulla Buzz fourstring fretless and that is a really cool and inspiring bass. I would have loved to buy this five string-brother but sometimes I try to be rational. Good luck with the sale !

Bump (I was so happy that this one got sold).
There's something about it that just says "yes". Only thing is that I have a Fender Jazz '73 and I try not to buy basses in the same "sound-spectrum'. I find this white marble Fender very beautiful and it just looks so inspiring.
I've been watching the pictures already twenty times I guess...

Well, I saw the same PSP youtube things before I went to their concert and I expected some musician's trip, dull and boring.
It totally wasn't like that, it was one big groove and every musician just brought the best out of their instruments.
I have never seen Pino play like that before (not with Paul Young, not with Mayer, not with the Who, etc), he got a lot of freedom and he filled it up with incredible pocket-bass work and his fretless was stunning. Don't focus on the youtube stuff, live it was something completely different.
But I dont need to be convinced anymore... :-)

I visited this concert (check from 1'50")

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmHh7QsFT48"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmHh7QsFT48[/url]

from 4'00

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHK0iXvc8ZA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHK0iXvc8ZA[/url]

This week someone send me an excellent download of a PSP concert with Palladino..
I've been studying Pino's style for more than twenty years now and he still amazes me. While listening to the PSP tracks (with several bass-solo's on his fretless) I thought to myself that he's just getting better. It rarely happens but I had to turn it off because I got really depressed. It wasn't so much the technique but just the choice of notes and the lyrical aspect. The nice vibrato, just stay a little longer on the same note, add a nice chord and overall he plays so adventurous while keeping the groove.
He is one of the best bass players ever, sometimes hard to accept for scratching chickens like myself but he is truly blessed.

I sold my five string Wal for 3250 euros and it was less special (still great though) so your price surely is justified...

Beautiful and very intresting because of the pick-up position.. Unfortunately I don't play 5 string a lot, otherwise I would have been a buyer.
You won't have trouble selling this, this is not a crazy price. Good luck with the sale !

Beautiful..I bet it sounds as good as it looks. Some basses just have "it"...

[quote name='Spook' post='739205' date='Feb 8 2010, 07:05 PM']if they'd played like that in my local pub they'd have been thrown out![/quote]

I would gladly be in that pub if they would perform like that...:-)

[quote name='Huwberry' post='738810' date='Feb 8 2010, 12:30 PM']Seems like Pino and Zak can do really good impressions of John and Keith, respectively. Unfortunately, all Roger and Pete can manage is an impression of two tired, drunk old men. [/quote]

I don't see them as tired or drunk...where do you get that ?
The same attitude in the comments as with McCartney for instance : just some undefined criticism and vague references to age as the only solid reason. These "old" people certainly made my life more pleasant and still do.
Luckily they won't care less of what people think...

Because of the negative comments I checked some youtube-stuff...
Uhmmm... this sounds great to me and not at all "old". They can carry on for a long time if they keep this level up.
Weird lot, them British bass-players.


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Io05fTLSg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Io05fTLSg[/url]

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='737615' date='Feb 6 2010, 10:01 PM']A quick video of my playing smooth

Was testing out my newly acquired mbox & microbass. There's acouple of fluffs when i'm changing pages but you get the idea

[/quote]

Excellent tone and timing... this sounds "easy" but it's not. Every note counts and you can't hide behind noisy drums etc..
Great feel, you don't rush and that's not that obvious.

Visited his bass-clinic in Belgium (he played with Michael Jackson in Ostend) and he combined the gig with a clinic in a local musicshop (got 1250 euros for it :-)).
Great bass-line and a superb sound but after more than ten minutes of this same riff the crowd got a little bored (he used a Ken Smith 5) and the rest of the clinic was an uninspired bass-shuffle thing. Was easy money for him but didn't leave a big impression on me
Explaining why he was called "Ready Freddy" and some bass-noodling... not really constructive.

Liked it ! Nice bass too...

I used to have one of these, it was one of my (and my cat Spoetnik) favourite basses.... good luck with the sale (you won't have trouble selling it)

Just want to tell you that I listened to your sample and I love your feel. Very nice bass-playing and a great sound. Good luck with the sale !