Ronnie Lane-Faces Bass playing Facts

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I listened to Session 5's Seegar tune her did and it got me to jamming to some 70's bands.

Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and the Faces popped up. That flippin Ronnie Lane had some cool groovin feel on that bass,
Then I got to wondering, if any of you guys know what bass it is. Before I could get this typed up, I found it. Cool Story too.



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Zemaitis Black Electric Bass Guitar

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eSGEe said:
Bass.......yeah baby
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Yeah and it is some bass too. Only 1 of 1 made.


Bob Daisley Interview

FlyGuitars: And you have two basses by Zemaitis, including one formerly owned by Ronnie Lane

Bob Daisley: The Ronnie Lane Zemaitis, that's one I saw him use live in London in the early 70's when he was with Rod Stewart and The Faces and I remember trying to track Tony Zemaitis down to see if I could get one or how much they would be when I was in London but I never ever did. Eventually, it wasn't until about '90 that somebody phoned me and said I've got a number for Tony Zemaitis if you wanna contact him and I did. I went to his house and talked about The Faces and the sort of thing I want so he made me the single cutaway Les Paul sort of shape with the metal front engraved by Danny O'Brien.

I asked him about Ronnie Lane's bass and he said "oh that one's just a one off, I made that for Ronnie and he brought along his own pickups". They were vintage Fender bass pickups, the straight pole ones, the early 50's ones and he put those on there.

After that I became an honorary member of The Zemaitis Owners Club. They send me this newsletter thing and I noticed it must have been early 2005 that there was an ad for Ronnie Lane's bass and I thought God now there's one to have in your collection and a bloke in Australia had it.

I phoned the guy in England, Keith Smart at the Zemaitis owners club, and then he gave me the details of this bloke here and I ended up having a deal with him for it. There was only one of them in the world so it was a very rare one.
 
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