Check out new Stanley's epizode and interview with one and only Mica!

Good episode!    Check out the bass starting at 27:11.     

Love Mica's Piet Mondrian glasses!

Bill, tgo

Loved to see a glimpse of the Mothership facilities and how the band reacted to Mr. Clarke's new bass. This experience seems to be something each new Alembician live in his first gig/rehearsal with an Alembic in hands.

When I got my Rogue first time to our rehearsal the drummer asked me why I didn't play those lines before and I said that I always did, but now he was finally hearing me...

Excellent Bass Nation episode by Stanley Clarke. Good to see him dedicate a section to Alembic and get Mica to take part.

The first time I heard Mica's voice, before all those years I'm in the Club.

Great job Mica! We had our first conversation in the mid 80's when you took my order for a Spoiler 6 and all these years later you are presenting to the world! Continued success to you and all of the Wickersham family. And this year I will finally have upgraded to a Series 2 6. Only took me 38 years to get with the program! Congrats again on a great conversation with Stanley.

Loved it!  Thanks for posting the video Goran.

Very cool! 

OMG first time I see Mica on a video!

Please continue doing this interesting stuff!

Fantastic production. And Stan does the best job of explaining to a lay-person the correlation/difference of upright bass to bass guitar... just laying that foundation is so critical to understanding why these things have to work so well. Very natural in front of a camera too. That's hard. We don't think about that stuff as much.

Finally watched the Alembic segment - fun! Never heard the bit about the band chipping in to buy him that first Alembic.

A good investment and also a good move by Rick to bring that bass for him. I wonder if that was the first short scale bass that alembic made and if so was it made with him in mind?

It was not the first short scale bass and Stanley was not in mind - it was literally one of the basses we had finished in the shop! We took gear to all sorts of artists (still do!) to try out during soundchecks.

There was also a post in 2016 by Mondozer offering another version of when Stanley first laid his hands on an Alembic, in this FS thread for #72-03.