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Author: | leftybassatl [ September 4th, 2008, 12:15 pm ] |
Post subject: | Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
Don't see many of these....I think this belonged to the same guy that sold the lefty ampeg baby bass on eBay not long ago. If memory serves, I seem to remember seeing the same "Joe Long of the Supremes" comment in that posting too. http://cgi.ebay.com/Ampeg-Devil-Bass-Gu ... dZViewItem |
Author: | andrew [ September 4th, 2008, 12:17 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
Wow, that is a rare bass. |
Author: | ADSR [ September 5th, 2008, 6:58 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
What's going on with those strings? It looks to me like the black silk cover windings are protruding way too far past the nut/zero fret almost all the way up to the first fret. Am I looking at it wrong? |
Author: | AustinLeftyBass [ September 5th, 2008, 7:25 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
ADSR wrote: What's going on with those strings? It looks to me like the black silk cover windings are protruding way too far past the nut/zero fret almost all the way up to the first fret. Am I looking at it wrong? IIRC those old Ampegs required extra long strings, those are probably normal length. See how much string is between the bridge and tailpiece. |
Author: | pjmuck [ September 5th, 2008, 7:44 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
Extremely rare bass! ![]() Too bad those Ampeg basses with only the single "mystery" pickup sound like crap. I had a righty AEB-1 years ago, and it was, hands down, THE worst sounding bass I've ever heard. Zero sustain with the unique sounding plastic-like "boink" tone when you plucked it. Ampeg wised up when they introduced a "real" pickup in the sweet spot later on (AMB-1), but I don't know if the Devil basses ever got that far. |
Author: | ADSR [ September 6th, 2008, 5:35 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
pjmuck wrote: Too bad those Ampeg basses with only the single "mystery" pickup sound like crap. Well Rick Danko played a fretless Ampeg. It wasn't the "Devil" model but I'm pretty sure it was single pup. May not have been the same type of pup either. When I was living in upstate New York there was another local blues player who played that same fretless model. Those basses sounded fantastic. Of course a fretless is a totally different animal anyway and maybe the pup was designed for that sound. |
Author: | pjmuck [ September 6th, 2008, 11:12 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
Danko played a fretless AMB-1. The AMB-1 is a much improved bass over the original AEB (and Devil bass) PUP configuration in that they did away with the sucky mystery bridge pickup by then and put a single coil PUP in the sweet spot and revised the bridge instead. Those basses are worth owning. FYI, I e-mailed the seller about the black bass pic and also about a serial #. His response was that the picture was just bad. But regarding the serial #, he said, "It's in the ad, look again." ![]() |
Author: | LHBASSIST [ November 28th, 2008, 5:30 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Ampeg Devil Bass on eBay... |
I'm pretty sure Rick Danko had a P-bass pickup installed on his scroll bass...from pics I've seen of it. Had the pleasure of meetin' him in Milwaukee once, nice guy...great player...too bad he's no longer with us. |
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