Here are a couple of pics from my ELP tour program from 1977. Not the best resolution, and odd that they flipped the one image, presumably for 'artistic' reasons for the mid-book layout.  
 
This bass is one of the instruments that began my love affair with Alembic. :-)

Around six years ago I watched two ELP dvd's, this resulted in a complete obsession to own an Alembic Scorpion, will attach the pictures that I have of Greg and Alembic, may take a couple of posts.





 





 

  [moderator's edit for picture alignment]  (Message edited by adriaan on May 02, 2013)

theres more !!!  



 



 



 



 





 

  [edited for picture alignment]  (Message edited by adriaan on May 05, 2013)

Does anyone know how the Pirate Scorpion ended up in John Entwistle's collection at the Sotheby's auction?? I have heard various stories that Greg Lake may have given this to John at some point and ended up being auctioned off upon his death.

The Pirate Scorpion with serial 79 1300 was auctioned in the John Entwistle auction at Sothebys for GBP 10800.
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

...and here the picture of the auction lot:

Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

...but as you can see, it is a different one than the one pictured above....
Oliver (Spyderman)

Thanks Oliver, they are in fact 2 different basses, though similar in design except for, obviously, the top woods, the headstock, the hum cancelling p/u,the bridge and what appears to be a rotary selector near the lower horn. I wonder where the story came from that Greg had either given or sold this to John? And where is the original now??

The Omega bass, 2nd pic down....wow.

And this one, the ex Sothebys one , also has a graphite neck...
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

I read a story online where Greg was saying the headstock had a tendency to break (on the wood one) because of the tension and he finally sold it to JE as a collectors piece. Not sure if there's any truth in that. Isn't one of them in a Hardrock Cafe somewhere?