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Alembic products => Showcase => Artists and Their Alembics => Topic started by: Googe Endeveronte (goooge) on September 27, 2002, 10:12:47 AM

Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: Googe Endeveronte (goooge) on September 27, 2002, 10:12:47 AM
i think this is called a scorpion (?) shape.  
lifted from greg's website(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/1877.jpg)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: jlpicard on April 01, 2006, 02:26:09 PM
and another with a 4 string this time.
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/26829.jpg)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: David Houck on April 01, 2006, 04:50:40 PM
Nice pic of a nice bass!
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: olieoliver on April 01, 2006, 05:49:09 PM
That second pic is a cool looking bass. What kind of top is that?
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: Bradley Young on April 02, 2006, 09:51:16 AM
I'm guessing zebrawood, based on the really straight grain-- and the stage lighting produces the trippy look.
 
Brad
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: apdavis on June 02, 2006, 08:00:12 AM
Video with the 8 string scorpion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtVhVRHFb8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LtVhVRHFb8)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: David Houck on June 06, 2006, 07:40:03 PM
Cool!!
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: s_wood on July 14, 2007, 11:48:06 AM
From 1978:
 
 (http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/42001.jpg)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: eligilam on August 01, 2007, 07:27:55 AM
The four-string version of that Scorpion in the last picture is now my official Excalibur.  Time to start planning some sort of LA freeway armored truck heist.
 
Will, aka. Waynegrow
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: lysosome on August 22, 2009, 12:59:50 AM
I was browsing YouTube earlier and saw this video.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJlpOQf4rYA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJlpOQf4rYA)
 
He's playing the 8 string scorpion-style bass picture above. Not really any good shots of the bass in the clip, but you can sure hear it!
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: mario_farufyno on August 23, 2009, 07:33:35 AM
Love hear him singing!
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: 811952 on December 19, 2009, 04:34:01 PM
Wait a second.  I recall that the Pirate 8-string bass had a hidden hum-canceller!  Are there two?  Or am I simply mistaken?
 
John
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: jazzyvee on October 03, 2011, 04:26:02 PM
Bump.  
Just been watching some Emerson Lake & Palmer on you tube.
this bass is in use in these clips.
 
Fanfare for the common man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLWgrr671g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLWgrr671g)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q698uWIrWmU&feature=related
 
 
Jazzyvee
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: terryc on October 04, 2011, 08:30:00 AM
ELP..saw them in 1974 preforming the Brain Salad Surgery show at Wembley,  Carl Palmer had a Stainless steel drum kit made by British Steel, when he asked what thickness of shells he wanted he said 1/4..consequently it weighed about 5 tons and had to have a reinforced plinth for it to stand on plus his tympans, church bell and the huge chinese gong..70's excess rock eh??
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: JuancarlinBass on October 04, 2011, 09:36:51 AM
However, when I opened for ASIA some months ago here in Caracas, Palmer (had to) play with a run-of-the-mill Pearl kit that was provided by the backline rental company. Times (and excesses) change, huh?.
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: moonliner on May 01, 2013, 06:52:01 PM
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. :-)
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160643.jpg)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: andy3hal on May 02, 2013, 10:32:50 PM
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.
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160783.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160784.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160785.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160786.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160787.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160788.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160789.jpg)
  [moderator's edit for picture alignment]  (Message edited by adriaan on May 02, 2013)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: andy3hal on May 02, 2013, 10:38:15 PM
theres more !!!  
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160804.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160805.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160806.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160807.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160808.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160809.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160810.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160811.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160812.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160813.jpg)

(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160814.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/160815.jpg)
  [edited for picture alignment]  (Message edited by adriaan on May 05, 2013)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: chuckc on May 04, 2013, 02:48:22 PM
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.
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: senmen on May 05, 2013, 06:07:32 AM
The Pirate Scorpion with serial 79 1300 was auctioned in the John Entwistle auction at Sothebys for GBP 10800.
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: senmen on May 05, 2013, 06:15:00 AM
...and here the picture of the auction lot:
(http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/161110.jpg)
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: senmen on May 05, 2013, 06:17:37 AM
...but as you can see, it is a different one than the one pictured above....
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: chuckc on May 05, 2013, 06:52:35 AM
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??
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: that_sustain on May 05, 2013, 07:41:35 AM
The Omega bass, 2nd pic down....wow.
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: senmen on May 05, 2013, 07:47:53 AM
And this one, the ex Sothebys one , also has a graphite neck...
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)
Title: Greg lake's alembic bass(one of)
Post by: moonliner on May 05, 2013, 01:54:11 PM
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?
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