TWO NEAT YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH A GUITAR OF MINE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW45NY5E_mw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5NUEqtStQ&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Here are two videos shot at a jazz club in Cambridge, with Julian Lage playing one of my archtops. The guitar belongs to the very talented Jacob Matheus who is studying at Berklee and Julian and he swapped out guitars for a day for fun! Enjoy, I know I did.

1965 P-BASS Available

All the same information applies to the Bass mentioned in the last post except that the Bass has been refretted. The price is now $4500 now but serious offers welcome and I will pass them on! I fretted the bass after carefully removing all the wood purfling strips and the bass is a gem! Here are some pics from my kitchen!!

***1965 FENDER 'NOW FRETTED' P-BASS FOR SALE***

*****************THIS BASS IS NOW FRETTED AND AVAILABLE*****************

This fretless P-bass belongs to friend David Hayes and is available directly from him. It was originally a fretted instrument and was converted many years ago but could be switched back with the help of a decent luthier if desired. This is a cool if funky instrument with a ton of mojo and a great past that is looking for a new home and more stories to be part of!

Here are some pics and snippets of David's history with this bass.

Pics include one with Luke Gibson (singer-songwriter formerly w Luke & the Apostles)while playing a series of folk festivals across the country, from Sudbury (Northern Lights) to the Gulf Islands.

Another photo shows David playing with a '30s/'40s swing/jump blues (by way of Tom Waits) group called Cahoots. He's pretty sure this was one of their gigs downstairs at the ElMo.

Also a picture with Colin Lindens band with whom David played extensively.

THE HISTORY OF THIS BASS AS REMEMBERED BY DAVID

"I had owned a '67 Fender P, sunburst, great shape, in the late '60s. In '72, needing money because I planned to go to York University, I sold it. A year or so later I looked for another one & found this '65 FenderP for a reasonable price because it was very road-worn. The finish had been badly worn off in many places & 2 of the tuning pegs had been damaged. I always saw my basses as player's instruments so, after consulting with instrument repair whiz Steve Dark, I decided to replace the tuning pegs with Schallers (they have proven to be terrific, superior to Fenders) & generally cleaned it up. I sanded it & stained it a natural blonde. The pickups were repaired a couple of times, the pots cleaned, but otherwise the bass is original except for the tuning pegs and pickguard.

At that time, I was playing with Red Rider, which was made up of some high school friends. (This was pre-Tom Cochrane.) We played clubs like the El Mocambo & a few that were big at the time but long gone (The Junction Tavern at Gerrard & Jarvis, The Midwich Cuckoo further south on Jarvis, the infamously rough Knob Hill Tavern in Scarborough that was a big rock club in that era...) The bass in these days had a white pickguard & I played it first through a lovely all-tube Ampeg V-4B with folded twin-15" cabinet, then replaced that with a somewhat lighter Acoustic 370 & the 301 reflex 18" cabinet.

I left Red Rider in late'77 (Tom Cochrane joined a few months later). I had decided to study journalism at Ryerson University but before I started I played with what today would be called a "roots" band. With Cahoots, we played '20s, '30s & '40s swing, jump blues, etc. While at Ryerson I replaced Terry Wilkins as Colin Linden's bassist. I loved Terry's fretless sound so helped Steve Dark remove the frets on my Pbass' rosewood fretboard. At that time I had made a custom mahogany pickguard. (It didn't last long. The wood cracked at the spot of most stress, near the input jack.) I replaced it with the black pickguard that's on the bass now.

With Colin Linden I toured around Canada & played a couple of showcases in New York (with a heavy-duty custom road case I had made for airline travel). In Toronto, Colin & his Group du Jour, as we were called, were regulars at Larry's Hideaway, Hotel Isabella, The Edge, The Rivoli & other venues. Colin loved the sound of my Pbass. Paired with an Acoustic 370 amp & a honky single 15" (Altec Lansing 421-8H) cabinet built to the specs of an Ampeg Portaflex cabinet, he said (admiringly) that it had the sound of an angry goose honking.

As of the mid-'80s, when I had to officially stop working with Colin because of time constraints, I've been a busy working journalist. Today, I play in a hobby band called 3 Chord Johnny & the '65 Fender P has been well looked-after. No falls or other damage over all these years. Sounds lovely through my current rig, a MarkBass P501 & David Eden 2x10" cabinet.

Price $4500 (upgrade to frets)

Interested? E-mail or call me and I'll pass your info on to David!

tonyds@pathcom.com    (416) 699-7082

The Larrivettes resurface!

Here is an homage to the Larrivettes who skated by night and built guitars by day! Sure there are no skates, pads, pucks or even ice in these pictures but behind each of these steely stares lies a committed player willing to 'go the distance' no matter the foe, even when our biggest obstacle was a serious lack of talent, other than George of course who was poetry in motion!

Picture courtesy of David Wren.

Movie Art for 'DEAD MONDAY'

Used Instruments of interest available soon!!!

I have a couple of cool instruments arriving from the States soon one being a rare (1 0f 31) Martin transition tenor guitar known as the Carl Fischer model. This was a modified 2-18T with a 14 fret neck joint that was built in the months leading up to the creation of the first OM guitar. At the time these instruments were like attempts in a new direction and once the OM was established they stopped making them. It is a fantastic sounding and feeling instrument that I discovered by accident while in Dallas. I had never seen one like it (12 fret neck joints are the norm) but it was it's sound that sold me more than its scarcity. Anyone interested in Tenor guitars and in my neck of the woods, should try it. It's a dream.

The other guitar is a 1959 Gibson LG-3 in excellent shape and is one of the very good ones. I get to play lots of these and they can be small sounding or big. This is the latter and I'm sure it will end up in the right hands very soon.

Used Alleva Coppolo custom colour LG4 bass!!!!

This is an 'as new' bass with only one brief owner with all nitro finish in custom colour, 'plum crazy'.

I will be posting photographs soon but as a taster, it has a rosewood board with dot markers, active preamp, very nice neck and absolutely no issues! Those looking for one are aware of the waiting list and this is a great example you can get right now!

It is $4200 with original gig bag and is for sale by a client. SOLD TO FIRST ENQUIRY!