CONGRATS..AND WELCOME. BE SURE TO USE THE SHOWCASE SECTION TO POST MORE PICS OF THAT BEAUTY.  
NLP

and if for any reason you need to un-burden yourself from this specimen, please feel free to post.

Welcome, and indeed a very nice instrument. You really joined the family in style!
 
Olie

Welcome and congratulations! There are some other Coloradans (wild guess at spelling) in the family as well as good folks from all over the globe. Enjoy your new instrument.
Mike

And a big welcome from the runner up to the runner up.  A very nice bass and a great acquisition.  
 
dw

Wait a minute, his first Alembic is this wonderful old beauty? Not sure I like this guy!
 
Well done amedine, she looks like a special piece.
 
You'll recover most of your purchase price once you play her and sell all those other bass thingies you now own. DOH!
 
Welcome & Congrats!

David, Gary, Mike, Olie, Doc, Normand, Harry and Jeff,
Thanks for all your kind words, and encouragement regarding my transition to the Alembic perspective.  I am looking forward to the journey.  However, when I die, you will  still have to pry my fingers off my first bass, EB-2 (1968), that I have played, and still play, for nearly 40 years (the Kalamazoo didn't count).  I am sure some of those bass thingies I own will move on to less enlightened individuals.  Allen

EB-2?  Hey!  He's older than I am.  WELCOME!!!!!

Allen.  There is a verse in The Bible that says:  Ye have not because ye ask not.  So I'm gonna go out on a limb here.  If you are still in possesion of this instrument upon the time of your passing, Would you put it in your will that your sons should sell the bass for a fair price to JamesDoc Greene?
 
OK I'll stop lusting & coveting now.

Hey J.
 
Yeah.  when I worked at Gallien-Krueger, one of the amplifier engineers decided he wanted to be a bass player too.  So I took him to Guitar Showcase and Introduced him to the owner.  My buddy decided that a Series I was what he needed to learn to play bass on.   Gary Wineroth had no Idea that he was beginner.  After deciding to buy the bass, Gary told him he might want to look at straps and strings and stuff.  I though Gary was gonna die though when my buddy asked him for a beginning bass book and video so he could learn how to play.
 
coincendentally, I believe that bass is just sitting on a stand.