95 - Sleeping on Alembic / Vintage Vs Modern Basses / Scott's New Bass Hero

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Scott's Bass Lessons

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ever since Jack Casady first used an Alembic to hot-wire his bass sound with Jefferson Airplane, boutique builders have maintained legendary status throughout the bass world. But can the right player make any bass sound good? In this episode, we discuss one of the most recognisable and idolised bass guitar designs of all time (and Scott’s new bass hero who played it. In this episode you're going to learn: Why we’ve called out Alembic in recent episodes.Who is Scott’s new bass guitar hero?Do ...

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast.
0:05.0	Today we're talking about a few things.
0:08.0	Have we been sleeping on Alembic?
0:11.0	Do you guys like Alembic bases?
0:13.0	The huge deal for you?
0:15.0	For me, for whatever reason, I sort of missed them.
0:18.0	And whenever the conversation comes up, I'm like, oh, yeah.
0:21.2	Like, I remember the Olympic epic from the 90s, but I was never into all that stuff.
0:26.8	Well, Scott is so funny because he will get on this tear about gear where we'll be talking.
0:34.4	He'll be like, I'm selling it all.
0:36.5	I can't.
0:37.0	There's no more bases. I don't want any of this stuff anymore. And then he's like, dude, I was on reverb for eight hours last night looking at Olympics. So we're going to talk about that. He's going to school me. He's going to school you on why Olympics are amazing. He's also going to talk about his secret new bass hero.
0:54.6	That's pretty fun.
0:55.8	And what else we got?
0:56.6	Oh, yeah.
0:57.6	Vintage versus modern bases.
1:00.4	People ask me all the time.
1:02.2	Like, what's better?
1:03.5	Should I invest in a vintage instrument?
1:05.6	Should I get something that's a new build?
1:07.2	What would you do?
1:08.3	Well, it totally depends.
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