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    [quote name='KevB' post='1113935' date='Feb 3 2011, 02:46 PM']We'd better not get you started on Status Quo then [/quote] Yeah, but REM have a 'smart' 'geeky' 'brainy' reputation unlike Quo who have a 'fun', 'thick' and 'denim' reputation. Maybe I'm deluded, but bands that fit the 'intelligent' description usually like to move on and try new things - not simply atrophy like poor, old REM.
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    [quote name='Bass Culture' post='1113774' date='Feb 3 2011, 12:52 PM']With respect, Spoombung, if Stump had had a career that spanned 30-odd years and 20-odd albums....[/quote] 20 Stump albums. What a terrifying thought. At least we admitted we didn't have anything more to say as a band and did the decent thing and called it a day. REM are like a re-animated corpse or a party guest that won't leave. How can they live with themselves?
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    Well...I've never noticed the bass in that band (I still can't really hear it on the clips probably because he's mostly rooting the chord) but he'll go down well with the numerous bassists that treasure [i]absolute anonymity[/i] - something approaching a Zen-like humility (but quite often ends up as inaudibility) as the ultimate virtue of the art. REM are a funny group. All their songs sound the same to me; the same vocal phrases, the same intervals, the same chords, the same sounds year after year after year. They've been here forever and won't go away and won't change... like someone from another generation that insists and boiled beans and cabbage on a Thursday.
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    Thanks, guys
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    Another new [url="http://soundcloud.com/spoombung/hooded-youth"]song[/url] featuring the ACG bass
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    Cor.
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    This is nice from Victor Rivera Diseñador
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    [quote name='Mike Brooks' post='1098504' date='Jan 22 2011, 11:37 AM']Pop down to a gig sometime, we can chew the fat, in South London a fair bit, whereabouts are you exactly? Mike[/quote] I'm in Greenwich
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    Great collection... and several basses I'd like to look at there - especially the maple neck GB and ex Factors.
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    [quote name='Chris2112' post='1097804' date='Jan 21 2011, 05:06 PM']Pardon me, typing error made by me in my sleep deprived state, I meant "why was that?". [/quote] In a nutshell, I think it was a hell of a lot of work for him and it was a job taken in a generous spirit of experimentation. I would guess that any more wacky jobs like this would be unsustainable for him. I'm sure Alan will shed more light on the subject if you ask him.
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    [quote name='Chris2112' post='1097792' date='Jan 21 2011, 05:00 PM']What was that?[/quote] ...say he wouldn't make another one like this. But, you know... money talks!
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    [quote name='BottomEndian' post='1097733' date='Jan 21 2011, 04:17 PM']Ah, got it. It's got a sort of... "sparky" quality, for want of a much better word. Like it! (Like the track too!)[/quote] Sparky? I'm sure your descriptive powers are greater than that!
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    [quote name='BottomEndian' post='1097177' date='Jan 21 2011, 10:16 AM']Intriguing! Could you do us a quick audio sample of the nut piezo soloed (if that's possible)? I'd love to know what kind of noises it makes. [/quote] You can hear it quite clearly in when then 'solo' starts in the middle of the track. That's all done using that sound and a combination of the mag pickup.
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    There's no mystery here. Custom basses are far more likely to be sold on precisely for the reasons Burpster states.
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    A close up of the logo: The headstock:
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    [quote name='noelk27' post='1094331' date='Jan 18 2011, 08:08 PM']Saman is usually categorised as a type of mahogany, sourced mostly from South American and the Malay Peninsula, musch coming from Philippines. The AFR was initially available in saman, or walnut, or maple.[/quote] It has a very tight grain like mahogany but has some of the broader patterns seen in Walnut... so perhaps it is Saman?
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    [quote name='walplayer' post='1094296' date='Jan 18 2011, 07:47 PM']It loks like a walnut (a-204 model) Maple were a-304/305 Saman a-104/105[/quote] I agree. It's very likely to be walnut.
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    More pics:
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    I've had a look inside the control panel and the 4 strings do indeed have trim pots and can be adjusted individually. I have balanced the levels now. The output from the piezos is not as strong as the magnetic pickup which seems to be a feature of these basses (I've read on Talkbass, anyway).
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    [quote name='Bass Culture' post='1081332' date='Jan 7 2011, 05:37 PM']Did Spoombung copyright his Zoot custom? I'm guessing not![/quote] You guessed right.
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    [quote name='MoJoKe' post='1093025' date='Jan 17 2011, 08:05 PM']So this who Ibanez stole the design for the Ergodyne EDA 900 from!! Almost identical! Not quite in the same class though!![/quote] Yes, although I would call it an economic 'evolution' born out of necessity rather than any kind of appropriation you're suggesting. There were only around a thousand of the original hand-crafted wooden ones made around the Spuler design (like mine). All featured exotic, expensive woods, quality parts and took longer than usual to make because of the carving and set neck. I understand they became too expensive to be viable and the Ergodyne, to which you refer, was meant as a cheap, luthite replacement. The originals are in big demand and have become collectable.
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    A couple of people have asked how much the bass weighs. It is exactly 7lbs.
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