Been listening to this a lot lately:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkkzzAjSxDs[/youtube]

audio quality is a little better on this one, but boy is he amazing to watch play.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFA7uTwuoHo[/youtube]

Such a creative approach - I've listened to Manring for years but never heard this album until a few days ago..

Manring is fantastic. A voice of his own.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eTBc7aWBGw[/youtube]

I have a Zon Hyperbass on order. Ordered it a LONG time ago. Will be delivered in May it seems. Last bass I´ll ever buy. Promise.

dude - nice. I would love to play one.

Good luck with that "last bass" thingy....I have already bought 3 of my "last basses"...

Getting ready to order my last bass. Gotta sell my last bass first, though. I am working on my next last bass as well. If I can get a Jerzy Drozd it might be my LAST last bass. We'll see.

Zon is good people, Jan. I hear those things are so awesome they virtually play themselves.

Kev

God, that guy can play. Manring is so, so good.

K

I have at least bought 28 last basses!!

I am actually a moderator on Zon Europe´s Facebook group. I have a Zon already so this will be my second one. Great instruments. I´ve talked with Joe several times. They are indeed good guys but one needs some patients..... Delivery dates are not always set in stone....... I also know the Swedish importer well and have helped them out from time to time. So I am at least abit involved..... Love their stuff. Inventive.



Oh yes! Impressive and I´ve hear that he is among the nicest guys on the planet as well. Just love his stuff. Will be great fun trying to learn to play the Hyperbass. That thing can do stuff no other bass can and he basically told Zon what he wanted and they turned it into reality.

This thread just made me realize my Zon is now 25 years old. Bought it before there was no internet. The salesman also recommended that I check out a guy named Michael Manring afterwards. Years later I added a Warwick fretless, which was a nice instrument, but I sold it when I added the NS- Stick. It's tough for me to play any other bass as the Zon is so perfectly balanced, outside of how well it plays. If I ever decide to get another fretless, I'd get a Zon. I've played a few, very tough to beat. The necks are actually composite graphite and wood, the headstock is also hollow, requiring care if you change out the tuning machines like I did:

https://sb.smugmug.com/Music/Music-Related/i-78hF47v

Michael is amazing. A great musician and truly imaginative. I opened up a tour for him back in the mid-2000s and never got tired of hearing him play the same tunes each night, His version of the 1st Cello Suite Prelude is one of the reason I wanted to learn to play it.

He and Jim Lampi have been friends for many years. Their bass and Stick duo CD North is really cool:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/north/id298214704

Excellent and good fun to read. He was going to do a house concert thing here in Stockholm a couple of years back and I was going to attend. But it was cancelled unfortunately. Hope he´ll do something like that here again in the future.