Jack Casady Alembic Bass

Jim Roberts details the relationship between bassist Jack Casady and Alembic basses. Reply 27 on. Later on Casady helped design in conjunction with Epiphone the Jack Casady Signature Bass a 34-inch scale hollow-body electric bass.

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Jack casady alembic bass. The first Alembic bass was delivered to Jack Casady in 1971. After Leo Fender introduced the Precision Bass in 1951 other instrument makers saw the potential of the electric bass guitar and jumped into the market. He was also one of the first bassists to be involved with customizing his basses first with a modified Guild Starfire bass and then a custom made Alembic bass.

This bass is in good condition comes with a non-original hard shell case and is all original beside an added bridge mute. Brings back many memories. Gibson introduced its Electric Bass later known as the EB-1.

John William Jack Casady born April 13 1944 is an American bass guitarist best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot TunaJefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco SoundTheir singles including Somebody to Love and White Rabbit had a more polished style than their other material and successfully charted in 1967 and 1968. Alembic founders Ron Wickersham Bob Mathews Rick Turner used the instruments of Jack Casady Jefferson Airplane and Phil Lesh the Grateful Dead to analize all the details and come up with improvements in electronics and more. Jim Roberts details the relationship between bassist Jack Casady and Alembic basses.

I first became aware of Alembic in 1973 when I was 12 years old via the bass work of Jack Casady on the Jefferson Airplane live album 30 Seconds Over WinterlandHis bass tone was so massive and distinct that I had to know what instrument created it. Fly Jefferson AirplaneJack Casady Alembic 1. Bass synth and studio guru Jonathan Herrera brings his unique perspective on the industry to the pages of Bass Magazine.

In 1972 the bass cost more than four thousand dollars. I bought mine in 1980 used at 48th Street for 800. It resembled nothing that came before it and was to be the bass that has influenced and shaped bass design ever since.

December 05 2014 070253 PM 72-02 IIRC was a Tele-shaped guitar for Bob Weir now languishing behind plexiglass at a Hard Rock or some such terrible place. Shortly after that bass was stolen he saw the article in Guitar Player in 1973 about Jack Casadys bass the very first Alembic bass and he was smitten with the idea of having a custom made bass of his own. The second one came three and half years into it when I met Phil Lesh.