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Former Bass Player editor Jim Roberts interviewed
Bill Conklin for the May, 2001 edition of his
column called "Getting To First Bass".
 
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Sept. 4th 2000 issue of Business Week magazine
features Compaq CEO Michael Capellas on the cover
with a Groove Tool GTG7-T guitar!
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Alex Evans, touring bassist with Usher,
Whitney Houston and 98 Degrees was featured
in a long series of ads that ran in many
major music publications, proudly displaying
one of his two faithful companion Conklin
7 string basses.
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The late Allen Woody's incredible bass collection
which included a Conklin M.E.U. was featured
in Bass Player magazine just prior to this
wonderful musician's untimely death.
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1st Place honors and the Golden Axe Award was
bestowed upon Conklin for this phenomenal doubleneck
7 string fretted/fretless bass built for John
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Bass Frontiers reviewd two new instructional videos
produced by "The Buddah of Bass, Bill Dickens
for Warner Brothers Video. Bill heavily showcases
his Groove Tools Signature model 7 string bass
and other models from the Groove Tools line of
Conklin basses.
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Mel Bay website feature February 2001 in
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Scott Malandrone, former Technical Editor for
Bass Player magazine gave high marks and heaps
of praise to Conklin's New Century Series Club
model 5 string bass in their May '97 issue.
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This gorgeous "Ultimelt" 7 string bass was featured
on the back cover of the 1997 edition of the Blue
Book of Guitar Values.
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The Blue Book of Guitar Values honored Bill Conklin
as one of 4 featured premier guitar and bass builders
and inlay artists in its 1996 edition.
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The Chris Duarte Band featuring John Jordan on
his mighty Conklin 7 was featured in the fall
'98 issue of Blues Access.
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The roving photgraphers from the staff of Bass
Player caught Bill Conklin hamming it up on the,
then new M.E.U. at the '96 Summer NAMM show and
included it in their 101 Amazing Basses issue.
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A glowing review of our Sidewinder 8 string guitar
and accompanying CD was prepared by the U.K.-based
Guitarist magazine after our distributor showed
the editor some of our work. Their sister publication,
Bassist magazine also ran a wonderful review of
a New Century Series 7 string bass, but we have
sadly misplaced the issue.
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Bass Player September 2000: Some of the most influential
bassists of all time were asked how they got their
trademark tone. Rocco Prestia reported his new
Conklin Sidewinder as his instrument of choice.
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Charles Chapman called the Conklin 8 string "a
superb guitar that I would be proud to have in
my arsenal" in his June '95 review for Guitar
Shop magazine.
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Vintage Guitar magazine did a two part history
of the Tele-style guitar. Part two was chock-full
of photos of Conklin Custom Shop Tele-type guitars
and Conklin Crossover guitars which is a hybrid
of Les Paul and Tele characteristics.
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ON, March 2001: Time magazine's new tecnology
publication did a story on state-of-the-art product
advancements in various fields and chose the Lightwave
Optical Bridge Pickup-equipped Conklin bass for
the musical instrument category.
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Springfield magazine feature of Bill Conklin and
his craftmanship.
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The Japanese-based fanzine, Young Guitar did complete
coverage of the last Whitesnake world tour and
captured several nice shots of Steve Vai's one-of-a-kind
Custom Shop Conklin 7 string guitar w/ handcarved
3-D "Whitesnake" graphics.
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