Lovin this plank!

[merello]

[Ou7shined]

Yeah but what about the two headed bass/guitar thing?

[jasethebass]

^

[M-Bass-M]

OMG how many controls?

[merello]

[GBass]

Urggg!!

[sprocketflup]

[quote name='M-Bass-M' post='1046899' date='Dec 3 2010, 10:24 PM']OMG how many controls? [/quote]


All of them it would seem

[allighatt0r]

[quote name='M-Bass-M' post='1046899' date='Dec 3 2010, 10:24 PM']OMG how many controls? [/quote]

Ten.

[Chris2112]

He always sounded best using a Steinberger, so that doesn't really float my boat!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

He looks like he should have an extra pair of arms. Otherwise it's pointless.

[tom1946]

Good to put a face to the name

[Grand Wazoo]

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='1046916' date='Dec 3 2010, 10:48 PM']Ten.[/quote]

I make that 11, including the toggle switch on the top horn

[Cat Burrito]

Back to the 70s!

[cocco]

Am I the only one who opened this thread thinking it had something to do with Si?

[jonsmith]

No, you're not. I thought it might have been about one of his basses.





I'm pretty sure the gentleman who put that together is now building Wals.

[Prime_BASS]

[quote name='cocco' post='1047612' date='Dec 4 2010, 06:10 PM']Am I the only one who opened this thread thinking it had something to do with Si?[/quote]

Was probably the only reason I clicked the thread.

[cocco]

What's the story behind the bass? Obviously it's a mongrel. Who built it and from what?

[paul h]

[quote name='cocco' post='1047612' date='Dec 4 2010, 06:10 PM']Am I the only one who opened this thread thinking it had something to do with Si?[/quote]

It keeps catching my eye and even though I know it's not, I keep reading the thread...just in case.

[merello]

[quote name='cocco' post='1049033' date='Dec 6 2010, 09:21 AM']What's the story behind the bass? Obviously it's a mongrel. Who built it and from what?[/quote]
Allegedly it is a hybrid of a Gibson double neck and a Yamaha TRB or JP, The logo on the bass does not look like Yamaha but the bass does!

[quote][/quote]Rutherford played mainly Rickenbacker and Shergold basses. He said (in 1979) of the early Rickenbackers he played that 'they were all borrowed from a friend. We'd borrow one, break it, then borrow another. Up until a couple of years ago, I didn't own one myself'.[citation needed] He also developed the idea behind the M-Series Steinberger guitar with the help of English luthier Roger Giffin and he used this extensively in the '80s and during The Invisible Touch Tour with Genesis. He also had a double-neck Status built for the Mama tour which featured a six string guitar and four string bass placed in a custom body. In the earlier years of Genesis he used to play Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesizer. Rutherford has also been onstage with various Washburn Idol models. Through the late '70s live tours, Rutherford often used a custom built Rickenbacker double-neck that combined a 12-string hollow-body guitar with a 4-string bass (now on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum). For the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Trick of the Tail tours, he incorporated a Rickenbacker 12-string hollow-body guitar and a 6-string bass, custom-built by Microfrets, in two different double-necks. A custom Shergold double-neck was made that had modules for 4, 6 and 12 strings guitars. The re-tunings required for early Genesis songs led to the development of Peter Gabriel's stories and introductions. Today with Genesis Rutherford continues to use double-neck instruments, when the arrangements demand quick switches between bass and 12-string instruments. [u][b]His current double-neck model is a Gibson 12-string guitar with a Yamaha TRB-4P bass [/b][/u]while he prefers Eric Clapton signature model Fender Stratocasters when playing guitar on later pieces.

[merello]

ps:

[url="http://www.shergold.co.uk/thefarm.html"]Shergold [/url]

[merello]

Just found this too:
[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=454104"]Mike and his guitar mechanics![/url]
[quote]I got a British luthier team called [u][b]Charlie Chandler’s Guitar Experience[/b][/u] to take the 12-string top half of a Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck, and combine it with a Yamaha TRB-4P bass for the bottom half. We went with the Gibson EDS-1275 because there are so very few solid body 12-strings made these days that we could marry to a solid body bass.[/quote]

Edited December 13, 2010 by merello