My doubleneck has the pistol-grip - isn't that half of a scorpion?
 

That's the pic I'm using as a background for my laptop!

Looks like you caught your knee on the jaggedy horn of your bass harry. I can come round with some sandpaper if you want it smoothed off :-)
 
Graeme

Good one Graeme!

I believe that is Nick playing Harry's bass.
 
Dave DeMarco! He's the one I can never remember with the bass that I can never forget.  
Thanks for digging that up Rusty!
That is one sweeeeeet Distillate!

I just realized that pic was taken in my home studio!  
 
So Rusty, will your California trip include a venture north?  If you're going to be this close, you really  should check out the mothership if you can swing it.
 
Bill, tgo

Paul, Dave plays with one of my favorite bands, Crack The Sky, as well as several other bands. You can check him out at http://www.davedemarco.com/
 
Bill, unfortunately we are only going to be in Hollywood for the weekend, so we won't have time to head to Santa Rosa. I toured the Mothership last June when we moved my son out there. It was an experience of a lifetime! I do plan to go back someday when I have more time!
 
Rusty

Yeah, that's me with the torn pants leg. I was going for that 80's look. :-) Really, my dog and I were scrapping earlier in the day and he took me out.

Nice piece of buckeye...

Boy! Wouldn't that look great on a Scorpion?I've not really been drawn to buckeye,but I can see the possibilities w/the right shape....

Oh, sorry, that was your dog. Never mind.

Another couple of pics from Karl:  

 

  The second one looks like a graphite neck maybe?

Indeed, Greg Lake's Pirate 8-string is graphite.  If you have Bass Culture, the Entwistle collection book, you'll see that John owned this bass as well.  In that book there is also another graphite Scorpion  bass with a Bigsby vibrato!  And the two basses in the previous post are different basses as well!  
 
I always called these gunslingers.  I believe they referred to this form at Alembic as the pistol grip.
 
Mica hasn't mentioned it yet, but way back in the 80's she visited me at my office with Greg Lake's guitar, which was the sibling of the bass in the first picture.  If I remember correctly, it was also pistol grips and had amazing mythical beast inlays (I particularly remember a manticore on there, which was the symbol of ELP's record label).  I'm a huge Greg Lake fan, so I should have bought this, but it had a signficant pricetag (just imagine what those inlays would cost today) and I wimped out.
 
David Fung

If you google images  Alembic Scorpion,that bass w/the Bigsby shows up as well as the other 2.I'd post a pic but I'm unable from my phone. Very cool stuff about Greg Lake.Thanks for sharing David.(would love to see that guitar!)

I wonder when the earliest pistol grip was? Mine (the doubleneck) is from '75...