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How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:53 pm
by jaymi
Since this is the 'holy grail' for me, I would like to see everyones' shadows....Can y'all hook a bro up?
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:40 pm
by bassduke49
Well, I was going to get to the Shadow eventually (in the "Model of the Week" thread), but one thing about Shadows; you seen one, you've seen them all (pretty much). The only things that would vary would be the grain of the fretboard and the instrument's condition. But we'll have a Shadow week, along with an SPC week, and many others.
But, to hold you over till then, here's mine (from Jdog):
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:46 pm
by s4001
More Shadow'y than Shadow.
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:51 pm
by jaymi
s4001 wrote:
More Shadow'y than Shadow.
Holy darkness in daytime Batman!!! That is a killer JG/BT!!!!!
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:56 pm
by rickfan60
Paul is right. They differ only slightly having all been made during a few months in mid 1986. Mine has a distinctive finish flaw on the upper horn. A lump of something is under (or in) the CV and shows as a smooth raised area about 1/4" long and less than 1/8" wide. It was undoubtedly sanded over several times during the finishing process but inexplicably not removed. My Shadow has a unique neck shape among my Ricks. Every Shadow I have played (and thanks to forum events I have played many) has the same shape. It is thicker (fingerboard to back) near the body than it is near the nut where my other Ricks are roughly the same thickness top to bottom. Maybe that is just the way they were made in '86 - I don't know - but it is different from my others.
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:58 pm
by jaymi
Fair enough...let's expand this to include ALL BT basses....
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:38 am
by bassduke49
OK, then there is this beauty I had for a few months. Sold to a certain fan of blackness in Hawaii:
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:55 am
by berth
jaymi wrote:Fair enough...let's expand this to include ALL BT basses....
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:00 am
by atomic_punk
Shadows have the "micro-dot" markers while the others have the normal markers, that would make them "none more black", but not technically a "Shadow", right?
Paul, the one that went to Hawaii almost looks fretless in the pic!
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:10 am
by sloop_john_b
atomic_punk wrote:Shadows have the "micro-dot" markers while the others have the normal markers, that would make them "none more black", but not technically a "Shadow", right?
Paul, the one that went to Hawaii almost looks fretless in the pic!
Shadows don't actually have the "micro-dot" markers, just normal-sized black ones.
I'm pretty sure the bass in Paul's picture
is fretless!
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:15 am
by ginger_lee
bassduke49 wrote:OK, then there is this beauty I had for a few months. Sold to a certain fan of blackness in Hawaii:
Ears perk...eyes tune in..hmmm i want one of those...fretless i think as well
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:05 am
by rickaddict
Here's my "Poor Man's Shadow" '88 4003 made by swapping black hardware and black plastic onto a regular Geddy-style Jetgo Rick bass:
http://rickresource.com/register/viewit ... ine%3Dtrue
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:38 am
by ilan
My Sept. '86 Shadow:
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:31 am
by bassduke49
John is right, it is a fretless Jetglo with BT, a real beauty and mint. I bought it on eBay and picked it up in Chicago from a player. But I really didn't get the hang of fretless, and the band I'm in had no tunes suitable for a fretless sound, so I ended up sending it Jared Nakanishi a few months after I got it. This was four years ago, and as far as I know, he still has it.
Re: How about a "Let's see your Shadow bass" thread?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:41 am
by jaymi
bassduke49 wrote:John is right, it is a fretless Jetglo with BT, a real beauty and mint. I bought it on eBay and picked it up in Chicago from a player. But I really didn't get the hang of fretless, and the band I'm in had no tunes suitable for a fretless sound, so I ended up sending it Jared Nakanishi a few months after I got it. This was four years ago, and as far as I know, he still has it.
Ah yes, the mysterious man in black.....where is he anyway?!?