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John Entwistle's Frankenstein Bass

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Nick Wheeler

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Apr 14, 2004, 1:40:24 PM4/14/04
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Does anyone know the components which made up this bass.??

I'll start you off with an easy one:

1. Body - Fender Precision Bass (Year).??
2. Neck - ?
3. Picups - ?
4. Electronics
5. ???

I know it was mode from 5 smashed basses, but what were they.???????


Saxomophone

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Apr 14, 2004, 1:55:02 PM4/14/04
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"Nick Wheeler" <tvr.m...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Quote from Entwistle i once found, this is about all i know about it's
origin, that and it is/was pink :)

"The neck, pickups and circuitry are from a 'dead' slab bass, the tailpiece
from a Jazz bass, the pickguard from a black P bass® and the machine heads
from 2 white P basses. Two hours with a Phillips screwdriver and a soldering
iron and I was ranting around my hotel room screaming, "It's alive, it's
alive!'"

grtz
sax


Larry Shaw

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Apr 14, 2004, 3:24:35 PM4/14/04
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Yeah... the write up in the Sotheby's auction catalogue ties in with that
description.... I guess the pickups were standard precision bits as john is
reported to have given up on overwound pickups ...........

www.union-revival.com

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Dude

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Apr 14, 2004, 4:04:42 PM4/14/04
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I'm sure it will be discussed at length in the new book coming out next month:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860745938/103-8061461-79190
00?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I2W4UA2JMAQSZW&colid=3UQXLQXJJ57EP


Steve "Dude" Barr
http://www.schoolofbass.com May 6th - 9th 2004!
http://www.TheDudePit.com
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