Does Stefan have an Alembic?

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:05 am

I was just looking through the 'Road' photos from the Gorge this August, and Stefan appears to have an Alembic bass:

Alembics are the Rolls Royce of basses; they can easily cost over $17,000.

http://www.alembic.com

Can anyone verify this?

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:08 am

A 5 string from the Alembic storefront:

you can see the key Alembic traits on Stefan's bass...the striped neck through, the somewhat lopsided shape...and the rarity of 6 string basses kind of narrows it down to a specialty maker...oh well.

so anybody know?

emorokr12 · Post by **emorokr12** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:14 am

http://dmband.com/band/band_eqlist.asp?member=Stefan

According to that he doesnt, but that doesnt mean that list is completely updated.

Nitro1515 · Post by **Nitro1515** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:16 am

Nobody is really sure
http://www.dmbtabs.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=24552

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:23 am

It's a Ken Smith

edit: oops, didn't read nitro's post, tictacs says it there

i am sam2 · Post by **i am sam2** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:24 am

well i think its pretty clear that the bass in this picture is the same as the bass in the first picture in the thread nitro posted....and that thread, according to tic tacs, says that the bass is a Ken Smith...so id say no stefan doesnt have an alembic, is a Ken Smith

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:37 am

Thanks a lot! Just wondering.

acusticdude · Post by **acusticdude** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:58 pm

i'm sure stephan could afford an alembic though!! I was looking into buying a jerry garcia custom guitar from alembic but it was like $8500 bucks for the base model. If you have not browsed their site I suggest doing so. Those things are true works of art!

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:20 pm

acusticdude wrote:i'm sure stephan could afford an alembic though!! I was looking into buying a jerry garcia custom guitar from alembic but it was like $8500 bucks for the base model. If you have not browsed their site I suggest doing so. Those things are true works of art!

amen..check the custom galleries...the Roman Conqueror comes to mind.

charliemike · Post by **charliemike** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:11 am

That picture above reminded me: I still cannot figure out why Dave shaves all the time and yet was sporting that McBeard during the Central Park concert. It's distracting

acusticdude · Post by **acusticdude** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:55 am

wasn't that areound the time of winn-dixie? I know his character in the movie had a beard.