Darren’s Mystery Bass

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:04 pm

Well, Darren, I see you revealed before MARF, but a beauty like that is hard to keep still about! Congrats again.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:11 pm

Can't stop looking at these pics. Midnight Blue doesn't even come close! LOVE that Azureglo.

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:27 pm

Well, that's okay. As long as it sounds better than any 70's bass as opposed to a 60's bass, my burning envy can be held at bay temporarily.

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:40 pm

Well, Dave opened up the lid on my surprise and I
just couldn't help myself.

I've longed for (or lusted after) an Azureglo 4001 bass ever since opening up the Star Stowe centerfold in a 1977 issue of Playboy magazine. You can imagine the effect that image had on my twelve year old mind at the time

(For those unfamiliar with the issue, please email me off-line).

Even now, I must still live vicariously through Dave Pascoe, who has been instrumental in helping me secure this bass. At this stage I'm deferring to Dave on matters like playability, sound, finish etc as he's the one with it in his hands, so to speak

Dave is also at the front of the queue if I ever decide to part with it.

Apart from actually taking delivery of the bass myself, the next thing is to convince my wife to have her photo taken posing with the bass. Andrew Winter knows what I mean!

I'm glad that those Forumites attending MARF II will have the opportunity to see the bass in the flesh, er, so to speak.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:17 pm

That was the one where she was holding just such an axe, eh? I never saw it, although I was 22 at the time, but I heard about it years later.

I am really hoping I get to go to MARF II, but business may keep me away

Well done, sir! Great catch

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:58 pm

So, Darren, will that photo make the RRF 2008 Calender?

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:39 am

A recreation of it with Robyn holding the AZ!

BTW, does Robyn know?

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:46 am

Jeff, Robyn knows full well what my intentions are! She keeps telling me I'm dreamin' though!

markbass99 · Post by **markbass99** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:02 am

I don't believe the AZ bass in the 77 centerfold spread had full inlays and checkers so your photo repro is going to be slightly inaccurate...

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:03 am

Wow! Beautiful bass, Darren! Congrats!

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:39 am

"I don't believe the AZ bass in the 77 centerfold spread had full inlays and checkers"

The AZ in that centerfold was a '75 so it had modern inlays, 1" spacing and parallel knobs.

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:58 am

Oh so close, and yet so far away! (From the "rest" of the picture!)

Just notice something without the other "distractions" in the picture. It's actually plugged in!

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:11 am

Someone just sent me a scan of that photo. Not ever having seen it before...

It is a wonder that anyone even noticed a Rick there in the first place! There are significant distractions on that photo that would tend to guide the eye away from the Rick

Now I've gotta go delete the photo before my wife happens to stumble on it by accident - I would never be able to explain that I only read the magazine for the Rick photos and articles, not the other pictures!

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:19 am

I still have the original centerfold. It was attached to a PlayBoy Mag in a bag along with $500.00 that I found under a bush. I used the money to pay off the 1978 4001FG I had on layaway. The bass was stolen six months later. Serial#RI5051. Easy come easy go. At least I still have the centerfold!

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:05 am

That is SO bizarre, Dane, the same thing happened to me once! Back in 1963, when I was a kid, I found this rifle in a bag under a bush on this grassy knoll in Dallas Texas, with a photo of a 1962 Rickenbacker 4001 and a photo of some guy named Kennedy in it, and a bag of money with a note pinned to it saying "Thanks for taking on this assignment, Happy Hunting" signed by some guy named LBJ. I was so glad that the guy missed, since nobody reported anyone shooting a Rickenbacker that day!!!