Amputated Ray spotted with Linkin Park

[smokey]

Found a live pic and thought I had to share. Did some searching and the link below is the best view that I could find of the black SR that Phoenix has been playing. Anyone else own a Ray that has had a 1/3 of it's body amputated and is still rocking? Must have some serious tonal mojo for it not to be retired from use.
All sizes | Linkin Park @ Bercy (POPB), Paris | 25.10.2010 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Cheers

 

[keko]

 

[Colin]

that's so cool!

 

[Elad_E]

where exactly did the tuning machines go?

 

[jlepre]

where exactly did the tuning machines go?

Um the tuning isn't the issue. How does he adjust the volume and tone?

That is a travesty, and needs to be retired!

 

[ScreaminFloyd]

The question is why? I could understand if it was from another guitar company and a 1 out of a 100, But all MM's rock and this is (a): either a fashion statement or (b): no other EBMM around to play. Hopefully it was (b)

 

[smokey]

The question is why? I could understand if it was from another guitar company and a 1 out of a 100, But all MM's rock and this is (a): either a fashion statement or (b): no other EBMM around to play. Hopefully it was (b)

Unfortunately not (b). Here is where I originally saw a pic of the Black Ray. There are shots of him using a Honeyburst Ray as well in Melbourne.
Linkin Park | VoltageMedia

 

[adouglas]

I guess he really, really didn't like the tone circuit….

 

[jlepre]

I wonder if it's passive now?

 

[Elad_E]

Um the tuning isn't the issue. How does he adjust the volume and tone?

That is a travesty, and needs to be retired!

don't know what about you - tunning is quite an issue for me.
anyway, you can see the cable is going to the back of the bass so either the preamp was moved to a carving at the back or the pickup was wired directly to the output jack (in which case very low output will be produced).
either way it's a horrifying image, this bass deserves a proper burial.

 

[drTStingray]

i think some pictures have appeared here of this bass before. He broke it at the body joint in stage antics. My blue dawn ray has the same body joint position. The worst one we ve seen was the lady gaga big al contraption.

 

[maddog]

don't know what about you - tunning is quite an issue for me.

I'm looking quite closely at the headstock and not sure it is a trick of the light but I am wondering where the cloverleafs are.

either way it's a horrifying image, this bass deserves a proper burial.

there's still too many good years in it to not play it.

 

[roccobladr]

thats one way to shave off some weight

 

[danny-79]

Ouch !!!!

 

[fly]

are they 3 piece bodies cuz,it looks like it may have been broken and not sawn........

 

[jlepre]

don't know what about you - tunning is quite an issue for me.

Not me...with EBMM basses, just SET IT, and...

 

[Elad_E]

there's still too many good years in it to not play it.

easy to say when it's not your bass.

I can assure you the guy who owned this bass didn't think like you:

 

[mynan]

are they 3 piece bodies cuz,it looks like it may have been broken and not sawn........[/IMG]

Not sure, but I think that even a 1-piece could break like that...depending on the wood-grain.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

It's a relic'd bass! That can't be comfortable in a sitting position.

 

[phatduckk]

woah.
looks like that bass has seen the stage floor a few times