merello Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Yeah but what about the two headed bass/guitar thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasethebass Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Bass-M Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 OMG how many controls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GBass Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Urggg!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprocketflup Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allighatt0r Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 [quote name='M-Bass-M' post='1046899' date='Dec 3 2010, 10:24 PM']OMG how many controls? [/quote] Ten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2112 Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 He always sounded best using a Steinberger, so that doesn't really float my boat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 He looks like he should have an extra pair of arms. Otherwise it's pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom1946 Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Good to put a face to the name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Wazoo Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Back to the 70s! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocco Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Am I the only one who opened this thread thinking it had something to do with Si? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsmith Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime_BASS Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocco Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 What's the story behind the bass? Obviously it's a mongrel. Who built it and from what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul h Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merello Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merello Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 ps: [url="http://www.shergold.co.uk/thefarm.html"]Shergold [/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merello Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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