Help me identify this bass?

[Mokl]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLwmYI09Lw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLwmYI09Lw[/url]

(Sorry, don't know how to embed it since they messed about with youtube!)

Can you help me work out what Jerry Preston is playing here? I first thought it might be a BC Rich or an Alembic, but I really have no clue. Aside from that, check out the unbelievable groove of these guys... my God.

Ta in advance.

[Mokl]

Having a snoop around google, does anyone think it could be a BC Rich Eagle?

[JPJ]

[quote name='Mokl' post='1062052' date='Dec 17 2010, 09:33 PM']Having a snoop around google, does anyone think it could be a BC Rich Eagle?[/quote]

Or an early Alembic?

[EBS_freak]

100% BC Rich Wave

[4 Strings]

Funky, wound round style! Lovely brass pieces in the latter half. Precision pickups but sounds active. Very nice guitar playing too.

[dbass]

That ride cymbal is just immovable and sooooo solid!!!

Love it!

[Mokl]

Cheers EBSFreak, but damn you at the same time. Now I want one! Love the look of it.

[crez5150]

If you want to hear a funkier version, have a listen to the version on 'Roots and Grooves'.......... one of my fave live tracks of all time

[Lorne]

EBS_freak is completely correct, it is a Vintage B.C.Rich Wave bass, which was designed by Martyn Evans, not as Bernie Rico Snr would have you believe, himself

Martyn Evans
[url="http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/190968/?action=view&current=29_martyn_evans.jpg"][/url]

And as he was when he worked at BCR
[url="http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/190968/?action=view&current=Martyn.jpg"][/url]

@ 4 strings, the DiMarzio pick ups are Passive, but the bass has a pre-amp booster, and a 6 position varitone, but I cannot see in the video, if the pre-amp switch is on, if it is off, then the bass is Passive

@Mokl, they are very rare basses, there is one on German Ebay, but it has a horrid paint job on it, spiderweb

[LawrenceH]

Some tasty playing there! Funk envy...