Found some great video from 1977 - hope it wasn't posted before - bass sounds great through good speakers! And it looks like the oscilloscope at the very beginning is Phil's signal!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE3BTUjrevE

Thanks, Harry; hadn't seen that one before, and it's a good one!

 

I am bumping this thread, because apparently Mission Control/Osage Orange is back in some degree of working order. I have no wish to scoop any news that may be forthcoming from HQ, but from the pictures, it appears some Alembic parts have been applied to its restoration. 

Gruhn's is a publicly viewable FB page:

https://m.facebook.com/gruhnguitars/photos/a.257032270995483/2514061988625822/?type=3

...and the hashtags will get you to pretty good pictures. (which I am hesitant to cross-post here)

I am extremely happy to see a happy ending here. That bass was a pitiful hacked-up mess, and I couldn't help but think about its demise every time I listened to that glorious Summer of '77 tour.

Excellent news.
BTW, is that a 32-inch scale? In some pictures it looks like 34, but on the Facebook picture and the concert poster the neck seems shorter.
(NB: this photo is not from George Gruhn's FB, it's from the website of a club in Nashville, so I'm thinking its fair use.)

Are there any good pics, and if so, could someone post a link.  I wasn't having much success with hashtags.


edit:  Well I finally found a few pictures, but they were small and it was hard for me to make out much detail.

From the Stolen Faces website:

Looks like a short scale.

Ah!  That's better; thanks!

So good to see that bass back together. Even better that it's going to be played. 

Quote from: J9 on July 06, 2019, 06:18:03 PM
Looks like a short scale.

It is.

CJ Singer of Nashville's Pretty Ravens says his friend Tony did the work.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwTUk7gppW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Maybe, he means Tony Nagy of Gruhn Guitars?



Tony started his foray into music with the baritone, tuba, and guitar until finally arriving at a place he felt he really belonged; the electric bass. While at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he joined a jazz band and started touring regionally. He later toured internationally with artists like Terri Clark, Lee Roy Parnell, and Mark Selby to name a few and his time as a professional musician often informs his work as a repairman.

After moving to Nashville in 1989, Tony helped build the Gibson Guitars repair department from scratch in 1991 and departed as Warranty Repair Manager in 1999. He followed up by starting Nagy Guitars offering full service repair and custom building for a number of musicians currently performing with Blake Shelton, Colt Ford, Tracy Lawrence, Eldon Huff Band and Billy Ray Cyrus and finish work for Jaros Guitars, Low End Bass Shop, Warrior Guitars, and Valloy Guitars. Tony began working in the Gruhn repair shop in 2014 and spends much of his time here doing finish work and soaking up the wealth of knowledge offered by his peers on the Gruhn repair staff. A player at heart, you'll still often find Tony in studios and on stages around town.

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This photo says it all

As does this...