Here's a picture with my three main basses.
A white Moon JJ4, Dale's 77 and my 98 SI with SII electronics. Not the sharpest picture but ok...
 
That's it for now.
 

 
Manfred

Wow ...Manfred ...choet sjo jochie!!!!!!!
The perfect Alembic collection.
The Moon is neat too!
 
Paul the bad one
 
Oh and BTW ...I am a Ellio Martina client too ...just some days patience and you'll see!!

Manfred, that's a beautiful collection you have there! I really love the Moon jazz! I'm constantly fine-tuning my own bunch. The Orion and EVH are in my blood, they will become family heirloom. But after the Series I my Elan might become the second ex-Alembic before or around the end of the year. I'm seriously looking for a 5-string myself, and I wont dismiss a non-Alembic beforehand.
 
And Paul TBO, I'm very curious about you Ellio Martina 'connection' (via EVH's BassConnection I assume). You wouldn't mind if I started yelling for pictures in this early stage, would you?
 
Wilfred

Hang-on, hang-on, hang-on ...some patience ...for some days ...
 
PTBO

Ever played one of his basses Wilfred? BTW, I've seen several Martina basses with Alembic electronics.  
 
That Moon bass is fantastic, it's so funky. I play my Alembic with a clean sound through the Glockenklang Heart Rock with a SF-2 in the effectloop, but the Moon goes through a EBS octave thing and a Lovetone Meatball. The Moon came with an extra hardware set in chrome, but the gold stuff looks better. For the dutch people here, my girlfriend calls it a Frans Bauer bass. So I'm not talking to here anymore LOL. The original owner was Incognito's Randy Hope Taylor.  
 
And Paul.... pictures pictures pictures.  
 
Manfred (The I'm not doing anything tonight because I'm tired and hungry one).
 
(Message edited by mdrdvp on November 05, 2004)

Manfred, the 'Frans Bauer' bass, I love it! Your girlfriend has a great sense of humour, is she Dutch by any chance? If it were a car it should've been called a 'pooierbak' (if you have ever seen the MTV-show 'Pimp my Ride' you know why). Personally I would go for the chrome hardware, but it still is a very cool bass!
 
Wilfred

Looks more like a Harry Mens bass, or a Vanessa bass, to me - too much money to spend and no taste. I don't think Frans goes for the flashy kitsch, just plain kitsch will do for him.

Yes she is Dutch and does have humour, but the first time she said that, man, I was proud of having a rare Moon Larry Graham bass in almost mint condition, designed by him, handcrafted.... etc.. and she calls it a F. Bauer bass. Now it makes me smile every time i pick it up.
I tried the chrome hardware, but this looks more, you know... It's wrong in a good (funky) kind of way.  
 
Adriaan, I hope you are talking about Mr. Mens and Vanessa and not about me. If that's the case, you are sooooo right. I see the first one three times a week driving his Bentley or another big car, you can imagine it's hard to keep your breakfast inside.  
 
Manfred

Manfred,
 
I think we have about the same colour wallpaper. And no fake marble furniture in sight!
 
Adriaan

I just like the picture.
 
 
 
Manfred