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Here is the bass as it appears today. Posting a link to it rather than upload as it's copyrighted.
http://www.deep-purple.net/gallery/atla ... ple-5.html

so, there's a seymour in the rear and most likely in the neck. thanx for that link ! looks like he's a gonna pop a vein playin that c note !

Geez, if that picture was backwards, Roger would look like Peter Levett!

rickenbrother wrote:Geez, if that picture was backwards, Roger would look like Peter Levett!

Here is a flipped Peter for comparison. You're right, they look exactly the same!

Notice how in this correct way round photo of Peter that he looks totally different than the flipped version.

almost like a c64 and a 4001s !

I read a really good story (possibly written by Roger himself) of how he was arrested and spent the night in jail for that bass(the JG). I've never seen a FG, but maybe there was a backup bass. It's been years since I read it, but from what I remember he bought the bass while on tour in the US. He brought it back to the UK with him, but fudged the info on the customs form(s). He got caught understating the value of the bass and had to spend some time (a night?) in the slammer as a result. IIRC, they then recorded Machine Head. That story has to be floating around on the internet or on this forum somewhere.

The bass was stock for the recording of Machine Head from what I've heard and was used for the entire album.

Don't know about the jail story as I've never heard it but the rest of the info is correct. They toured the US in the fall of '71 which is when he would have purchased it. All of Machine Head was recorded w/the bass stock.

rickenbrother wrote:Geez, if that picture was backwards, Roger would look like Peter Levett!

Yes he does, now that you mention it.

Those three color band photos look like it was right when Gillan and Glover joined, 1969. And just look at Blackmore's hair! (and no Strat yet.)

Curious thing about the date of the 4001 mod being 1974. I thought Roger Glover left the band in 1973. No wonder there are no pic's of him with it.

coolhandjjl wrote:Those three color band photos look like it was right when Gillan and Glover joined, 1969. And just look at Blackmore's hair! (and no Strat yet.)

Curious thing about the date of the 4001 mod being 1974. I thought Roger Glover left the band in 1973. No wonder there are no pic's of him with it.

I would estimate the date of the photos as late Autumn '71. Blackmore still used the Gibson 335 on occasion until the Strat took over for good.

Glover left with Gillan in Summer '73.

coolhandjjl wrote:Those three color band photos look like it was right when Gillan and Glover joined, 1969. And just look at Blackmore's hair! (and no Strat yet.)

Curious thing about the date of the 4001 mod being 1974. I thought Roger Glover left the band in 1973. No wonder there are no pic's of him with it.

ok john...check out this link and scroll down to the 1973 area of gigs and you'll see glover with the j-pickup mods live.

http://www.deep-purple.net/gallery/gallery.htm

Nice links, Ronbo. But even better yet, get a copy of the Live in Concert 72/73 dvd and there are 22-odd minutes of him playing the modded bass at Hofstra Universiy in May '73. It most certainly is JG, so I have no idea what bass that FG I posted is.

And Glover really tears it up on Strange Kind of Woman and well, all of it, really.