Has Anyone here got an ACG Bass?

[steve-soar]

Hi Shaun glad you ended up with the Harlot, I think Alans basses are Britains best kept secrets.
When you hear guitarists talking about their Les Pauls, the don't often moan about the weight but they always celebrate the tone.




Kev, maybe a light Alder bodied bass, with wenge bubinga neck would be nice?

[Spoombung]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='354441' date='Dec 14 2008, 06:40 PM']Hi Kev do you or Ticklish have any shows up north in the near future?
If so I could bring the ACG along for you to see, it's a sixer, so be warned, heavy.
PS I'll sing for you, I have quite a high tenor. Kind of alto-macho. [/quote]

That's a nice thought, but Ticklish are all but retired these days (we were one of the first UK groups to sit round a table and perform on laptops with visual projections) but then [i]everyone[/i] started doing it and from a performance point of view I thought the group had become outdated. I still think we managed to make some of the squelchiest abstract electronica around.

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[quote name='steve-soar' post='354488' date='Dec 14 2008, 07:35 PM']Hi Shaun glad you ended up with the Harlot, I think Alans basses are Britains best kept secrets.
When you hear guitarists talking about their Les Pauls, the don't often moan about the weight but they always celebrate the tone.
Kev, maybe a light Alder bodied bass, with wenge bubinga neck would be nice?[/quote]

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines - although I don't find those highly ornate woods used on the facings of many custom basses too appealing.

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[quote name='zigmondo' post='354466' date='Dec 14 2008, 07:05 PM']I didn't even buy the bass from him yet he's invariably answered my enquiries with patience and generosity. I'm quite convinced that were you to set your heart on an AC, you'd get an instrument made with a fine and rare degree of skill, and one in which you'd be included in every step of the build.[/quote]


Yeah, it's obvious Alan is very accommodating and a great communicator. Nice bass BTW.

[steve-soar]

[quote name='Spoombung' post='354517' date='Dec 14 2008, 08:09 PM']That's a nice thought, but Ticklish are all but retired these days (we were one of the first UK groups to sit round a table and perform on laptops with visual projections) but then [i]everyone[/i] started doing it and from a performance point of view I thought the group had become outdated. I still think we managed to make some of the squelchiest abstract electronica around.[/quote]Hi Kev the last time I went to an "event" it was labled "Gothic Futurism" with the London Symphonia doing a Steve Reich piece, with Jamie Lidell, Squarepusher and as brilliant as it was, it had still become a brand, the freeform aspect was lost on the first gig.
It was a warp artists "Two Tone Tour".