I learned so much from his videos, back when I started building guitars I would play his videos over and over again, maybe I had missed something. Now I watch them with melancholy, and still trying to see if I learn something new...and Ive been in this business for 15 years.
Found the documentary while researching about building a bass guitar and got hooked… I actually own 2 of Randy’s basses and have built 3 of my own & can truly say I was fully inspired by Randy!
I was very sad to hear of Randy's passing. I sent him an email some time ago asking about a minute detail of luthier woodworking, never thinking that he would bother to respond to me, but he did. I will build from now on with him as an inspiration.
I am saddened to hear this tragic news. I was in 2 minds about having a go at making bass guitars until I saw this documentary. He has always been an inspiration to me and one that I will live one.
I am very sorry. I stumbled across his videos on building a bass guitar and have always wanted to try building my own ever since. I am sad to hear of his passing. I did not know.
No Idea this existed and it came up when I was looking for inspiration to keep learning Bass. Incredible work Randy RIP and may your creations continue to create incredible music.
This reminds me of working at Stars Guitars in San Francisco from January, 1977 to June 1980 with some of the finest luthiers, electronics technicians, sound engineers, machinists and more while repairing and creating some of the finest instruments and their parts in the professional world of music. We did it all, from warranty repair for Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, Taylor, Guild, Rickenbacker, Dan Electro and more, to making brass bridges, sustain blocks, nut blanks, knobs and so forth to active electronic pre-amp gain, tone, EQ controls and such, all installable in the instruments themselves. I became the Guitar Doctor and made "House Calls" to concerts, recording studios and, yes, people's houses to fix things o the spot. We were an off shoot of Alembic which, when they decided to move out of the city to Cotati, CA., Eliot Mazer bought the 24 track recording studio, renaming it His Master's Wheels, while Ron Armstrong and two of his friends, Gerald Matoi and Mark Woodward, bought the Alembic Store at 60 Brady Alley, renamed it Stars Guitars and it took off from there. Even after we moved to 818 Folsom in the same building with Studio Instrument Rentals and across the street from The Automat 24 track recording studio, everyone there still had the same attitude, eclectic creativity and approach to doing what we did as Wyn does here. Hope he's still going strong.
Just watched this and checked the Wyn website and was amazed at the price of these unique hand made instruments. The prices should be double what they are.
I'd never heard of Randall Fullmer until I heard that he'd died. What an amazing person and such a loss for the bass community. Thanks for this amazing film!
The best concert I ever witnessed was with Abraham Laboriel and Justo Almario in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1995, and since then I have been to concerts with manly legends, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Sting, U2, Coldplay, Black Sabbath, Emmylou Harris, Chick Correa, Joe Zawinul, Guru etc, etc, but the best concert ever is always the one with Abraham and Justo. How come? Maybe because both of them are they are really skilled jazz musicians, and maybe because they are both devoted Christians? That kind of combination is really powerful! 😊
