Hi Everyone,
I have basses from 1974, 75, 76, and would like to add a 73 bass to the group. If anyone would like to pass theirs along please let me know, it would find a good home with my others. Thanks!
Rob
Found
Great catch and I have to ask, is there anything particularly significant about basses made in those early years, that made you want to seek them out?
I think with this one it was the challenge of trying to restore it back to good working condition.
Rob already answered, and his answer was good enough. Anyone who has read me here knows how I love a rescue project. That bass needed to be fixed.
I think for me the fascination started with #73-39. Something about that one flipped a switch in my head. I owned #89P-5559, but this one was from the very dawn of the instrument-building branch of Alembic. Long story shortened, I missed buying that bass by a few minutes and a phone call. And that was somewhat of a turning point for me. I realized that if I wanted, Alembic would build me exactly that bass, and it's actually still Alembic building it, didn't matter a bit who was in the shop at the time. Then things began to take shape when it dawned that they could literally build anything I could imagine/afford. Ultimately, I had realized that a medium-scale 5-string fretless companion to my Persuader 5-string was really what I wanted, so I had it modeled somewhat on vintage specs, and <boom> there it is today, whittled into reality. It's perfect in every way, in many ways superior to its 1970's ancestors.
When the time was right, I eventually did get my vintage Alembic, #77-621, and made a friend too. #73-39 ended up where she was supposed to as well. #73-28 here is perfect for Rob... he loves these things as much or more than I do.