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The Grateful Dead posted a cool photo from 1967 with a shot of Phil's Big Red Starfire Bass: I think this is before any major mods - not the greatest pic for details but cool to see Phil hunched over it, clutching his pick and playing up high on the neck! That's the bass he played on Live/Dead,and from my understanding Workingman's Deadand American Beauty. [more], Guild Starfire - Guild Quantum Bass Amplifier (1967)Delivers that hard-driving, up-front, "Motown"-type sound - without going through the engineers control board1967 add showing two members of the Blues Project; Steve Katz playing a Guild Starfi... The Starfire Bass II Flamed Maple (FM) is a dual-pickup semi-hollow bass guitar that adds additional sonic options to Guild’s iconic Starfire Bass. Vintage Guild Starfire II Bass Guitar Natural 1973 in great condition. It remained a feature of the Starfire throughout it's production run, with only a slight shape change in 1968. Somewhere there is a Deadhead laughing at us getting ready to post a link to a thread that identities the listener and has a brief interview. JavaScript is disabled. The Guild Starfire is one of the more desirable vintage bass guitars of the 1960s, and gained recognition by its high profile users of the decade such as Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane, and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. (1972)Black and white advert for the solid body JS II (fretted and fretless) and M-85 II basses, and the hollow body Starfire SF-bass II Weir performed a concert tour in the Fall of 2018, as Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. During the 1960s, Guild moved aggressively into the electric guitar market, successfully promoting the Starfire line of semi-acoustic (Starfire I, II & III) and semi-solid (Starfire IV, V … The Modulus TBX is an older model (before they started making them again). "GUILD STARFIRE BASS" The "Guild Starfire Bass" was one of the most respected basses of the 1960s, and gained recognition by its high profile users of the mid sixties such as "Jack Casady" of "Jefferson Airplane", and "Phil Lesh" of "The Grateful Dead". The Guild Starfire Bass II is a dual-pickup semi-hollow bass guitar that brings additional sonic options to one of Guild' most iconic models. Starfire basses have been introduced in 1965 and where pretty popular back then, famous player as Felix Pappalardi (Journey), Steve Boone (Lovin´Spoonful), Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane) or Phil Lesh (Greadful Dead) played a Guild Starfire bass because of their own sound. 1970 Guild S-100 Polara - collectible or not? The other postures are possible but not what I would do to be comfortable. Wickersham radically modified the instrument to include quadraphonic pickups (allowing the signal of each string to be sent to separate outputs) and active preamp circuits. Re: Phil Lesh's Alembic Modified Guild Starfire "The Godfather" « Reply #77 on: August 06, 2020, 03:07:53 PM » Not sure when I took this photo, but Phil wanted to make sure you heard him Maybe these towers factor into the standing wave discussions that have taken place here. Can somebody tell me details about this Vox semi-hollow body guitar? After that he played a not very modified Guild Starfire (preamps and some magnet changes in the pickups) through late '69 or so (Live Dead is a great example of this sound). Overall length 46 3/4", Initially one-piece (later three piece) Peruvian Mahogany, rosewood 21 fret fingerboard with pearl dot position markers, Hagstrom bridge, Guild tuners, volume and tone control, hand rests, Hagstrom bridge, Guild tuners, 2 volume and 2 tone controls, master volume, pickup selector. I'm thinking facing the band. That's the bass he played on Live/Dead, and from my understanding Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Phil Lesh is interesting - I really started listening to the Dead in college (so 1988) and even saw the Dead three times between 1990-1994. That was after the glory years of his sound in my mind - I don't think he sounds the same throughout time, that's part of what's cool about him is hearing the development of his sound. The Bi-sonics continued to be fitted to Guild Starfire (and JS) basses until 1970, when Guild finally replaced them with their own brand new humbuckers. Later (1966), these were reversed, with the pickup moving to the neck position (see a 1968 Starfire Bass I, also left). The Godfather on the left is a heavily modified Guild Starfire by Alembic. The original Guild Starfire Bass II was introduced in 1967, at the height of the psychedelic rock era, and the bass found its way into the hands of two of the scene’s most prominent players: Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady and the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh. The short story is this: Phil started out on a Gibson EB0, then moved to a Fender Jazz Bass which he used until '68. Guild Starfire II Bass Guitar Natural 1973, 1969 GUILD USA STARFIRE BASS CASE fits also EB SEMI BASS, Find more vintage guitars for sale at vintageguitarsforsale.co, 1968 Shaftesbury 'Electric Guitars' catalog, 1970 Rose-Morris 'Exciting Electrics Wonderful Westerns Celebrated Classics' catalog, 1971 Rose-Morris 'Exciting Electrics Wonderful Westerns' catalog, 1965 Gretsch 'For the Spectacular Sound of the Times' guitar and amp catalog, Guitar Repair: fixing fret buzz and sharp fret ends, 1966 Hagstrom 'Worlds Fastest Playing Neck' catalog (Merson USA), 1971 Gibson Les Paul Recording guitar owners manual, 1971 Gibson Les Paul Triumph bass owners manual, 1981 Gibson Victory MV-II electric guitar, Hagstrom Bi-sonic pickups, replaced by Guild humbuckers in 1970, Bound Maple (Sunburst and Blonde finishes) or Mahogany (all other finishes). 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