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NBD - Epiphone Jack Casady


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I absolutely love my one. It's a gold top too - a Korean-made Peerless one from 2007.

It's strung with TI flats, but the varitone dial means it goes from smooth acoustic sounding bass, to P bass tone, to really growling stuff.

I think they look awesome too. Yes it has a bit of neck dive, but nothing serious and the whole thing is so lightweight anyway.

I got it second-hand in summer 2016 and it immediately slotted straight in as a gigging bass. Great bit of kit.

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Hoping to get my new strings tomorrow (D'Addario Chromes) and have it ready for rehearsal on Thursday. Been playing it acoustically at home today and it feels good, surprisingly fast neck, fast runs somehow don't 'look' right on a semi acoustic, but they sound good, and that's all that matters!

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This thread prompted me to have a good look at this bass and thanks to that gas syndrome I now quite fancy one of these too!

But I also looked into Mr Casady as well. At only 43 I'm a bit young for Jefferson Airplane but he is also in Hot Tuna. Wow. Wish I'd heard of them sooner. Great stuff! B)

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I bought my first Casady bass 2 or 3 years ago, when I was still playing finger style, one of the main reasons was because we had Jenny Haan (ex Babe Ruth) in the band and she was doing a cracking version of 'White Rabbit'. Sadly, the bass didn't suit my way of playing back then, but now I have to use a pick, it does. Swings and roundabouts.

But Jack Casady was one of the biggest names in bass back then, along with another little band from San Francisco you may have heard of, the Grateful Dead, whose bass player, Phil Lesh, also had a taste for semi-acoustic basses, and both he and Jack had the touch of the near mythical Owsley 'Bear' Stanley on their equipment.

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[quote name='fftc' timestamp='1488316005' post='3247909']
But I'm going to have to look up Owsley 'Bear' Stanley.
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Here's a good place to start: [url="http://www.thebear.org"]http://www.thebear.org[/url] - But as you discover just what he was responsible for, be prepared for a long read and a totally blown mind!

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[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1488318086' post='3247942']
Here's a good place to start: [url="http://www.thebear.org"]http://www.thebear.org[/url] - But as you discover just what he was responsible for, be prepared for a long read and a totally blown mind!
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That's the guy who inspired 'Kid Charlemagne' by Steely Dan isn't it??

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[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1488321009' post='3247986']
That's the guy who inspired 'Kid Charlemagne' by Steely Dan isn't it??
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That's the guy, yep. Incredible character, made most of the acid that fuelled the summer of love, financed the Grateful Dead, was their sandman, designed the Wall of Sound for them, probable the best PA system ever made.

Plenty about him in this book, great read! https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Bear.html?id=E41zCwAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y

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Changed strings to a set of Chromes and played the bass with a band last night, I was only using my little practice combo (Ashdown EB180) but it seemed to have more punch than my US Precisions! Sounded great, lovely to play and looks very different. I'll gig it next week.

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