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Title: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gibran on April 30, 2012, 05:44:27 AM
Hi everybody,
I am in love with Les Paul bass, but I can't find videos about it. I found only something about Tito & Tarantula(Rippy 'La loca' as bass player). What else you know? Thanks.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gweimer on April 30, 2012, 06:18:38 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6FV2qR2TY
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Dave W on April 30, 2012, 09:46:14 AM
Anything by the Swingin' Neckbreakers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OO3S-XtB4
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: TBird1958 on April 30, 2012, 11:12:49 AM


 Kyle Kyle of Bang Tango...........Yeah, yeah it's '80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u0yiplamdw&ob=av2e
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on April 30, 2012, 02:19:16 PM
Cry Of Love. With Robert P Kearns on a Gibson Les Paul Bass aka Triumph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvBPK0kozX4



Job Cain. Again with Robert P Kearns on the Triumph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuK1RBXAkOU
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gweimer on April 30, 2012, 02:28:26 PM
And, while all of the available videos for "The Beautiful People" from Marilyn Manson have Thunderbirds, it was recorded with a Les Paul bass.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Nocturnal on April 30, 2012, 07:50:25 PM
http://youtu.be/PRFJoUBP54o (http://youtu.be/PRFJoUBP54o)

Lunch Box from the first MM album





Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Barklessdog on May 01, 2012, 05:20:02 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoywIHLqbs

Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Barklessdog on May 01, 2012, 05:23:42 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVRJjlwwgE
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Barklessdog on May 01, 2012, 05:29:58 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6kvVGPURA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio&feature=related
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gearHed289 on May 01, 2012, 08:56:25 AM
Very Joe Jackson....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cW00u7cfk
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Highlander on May 02, 2012, 03:26:02 PM
Post one of your own Rob - plenty to chose from...  ;)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Dave W on May 02, 2012, 05:14:51 PM
Post one of your own Rob - plenty to chose from...  ;)

Here's one with Rob an his Hobbit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvVfDSR_Z0E
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on May 04, 2012, 02:09:20 AM
 ;) thanx Dave.
One of the very few that features me playing a Triumph.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gearHed289 on August 29, 2013, 07:48:33 AM
Supersuckers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah6BU-enEg4

Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on August 29, 2013, 09:22:31 AM
Duff played one. It's in this vid somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmAY059TTY
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: doombass on August 29, 2013, 04:00:02 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSdEvGy-PXk
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: doombass on August 29, 2013, 04:19:51 PM
While I'm at it I might as well throw in one featuring myself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6CZel1pr9Q
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on August 30, 2013, 08:39:26 AM
Anything by the Swingin' Neckbreakers

Aside from the 2 point bridge, a dead ringer for mine (right down to the white finish faded to a rich pee pee yellow).

This one  even more so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LWGkCR62fnY

Because it's really hard to see in the vid:
(http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s357/U2-stage-and-studio/01%20-%20Adam/Adam%20Bass%20Guitars/Gibson/LP_Recording-19xx-white/Gibson-Triumph-Recording_Bass-19-2.jpg)


Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 19, 2013, 12:47:51 PM
Some good views of a LoZ LP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6HRGN1pk4s
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on December 19, 2013, 03:15:33 PM
Wow! Wonder what brand it is. Doesn't look (nor sound) like a Gibson to me.
It doesn't have the Gibson logo. And the tuners like Japanese seventies type closed gear to me, but I'm not sure.
The neck has bindings which this model of the Gibson Les Paul Bass never had.
Can't really tell if the pickups are bass size or guitar size. They look like they might be the smaller guitar size which were often featured on the Japanese Hoshino copies.

Here's another clip with him playing this bass. Around 2:40 we get a close look at the headstock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Def1t8QQA

(http://www.mudkiss.com/GIGS2013/DSC_0385.jpg)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 19, 2013, 03:44:12 PM
Aw sheeeet; I was fooled!

I thought it was legit - was so excited I didn't pause the vid to get a better look.  Saw the crown inlay in the headstock and didn't pay any closer attention.  Good eye buddy!

Pretty convincing copy though, in terms of the look of the thing and control layout, right down to the pup rings (pups look close to bass-sized to me which was another reason 'ho' didn't spring to mind).  Bridge is a giveaway though as it's the worst of both worlds; old school fender 2 strings per saddle with 2 point mounting.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 19, 2013, 03:54:59 PM
Don't recognize the logo and it's not very clear what it says:

(http://grannygremlin.com/images/nonwebpics/LoZLPBho.jpg)

Looks like a C and maybe an S next with an L on the end.  At first glance I thought Cort but that's not it.

...[googling "CSL bass"]

Yep:

(http://www.ibanezcollectors.com/discus/messages/13/2092.jpg)

" CSL was a brand name managed by Charles Summerfield Ltd England."
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibanez
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Highlander on December 19, 2013, 03:56:06 PM
We've had ho's appear in the threads before and it's the imitation is the sincerest form (unless it's a Ricky and they find out) of flattery so perfectly acceptable...
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on December 21, 2013, 10:07:53 AM
Today someone sent me a pic of a Japanese copy of a Les Paul Bass.
The bridge looks like the one on the bass in the video!


(http://www.enkoo.nl/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/9961435_orig.jpg)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on December 21, 2013, 06:00:43 PM
Ibanez used those bridges on thei seventies Gibson copies, I have one on my Ibanez Flying V.  A wild mix of Gibson and Fender ingredients, but a massive and stable bridge, though hardly purdy.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on January 09, 2014, 09:55:04 AM
This video of Belgian band Marble Sounds features my ex-bass, the Gibson Triumph that I sold a little over a year ago.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXTYVHqdPw
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: OldManC on January 09, 2014, 03:52:12 PM
Ibanez used those bridges on thei seventies Gibson copies, I have one on my Ibanez Flying V.  A wild mix of Gibson and Fender ingredients, but a massive and stable bridge, though hardly purdy.

And my Ibanez Thunderbird has a two point bridge with nylon saddles. You never know what you'll find on 70's Japanese copies!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 10, 2014, 06:51:32 AM
Today someone sent me a pic of a Japanese copy of a Les Paul Bass.
The bridge looks like the one on the bass in the video!


(http://www.enkoo.nl/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/9961435_orig.jpg)

Yep, I'd tap dat.   ... well no, not in the Satriani sense, I suppose, but def some Jamerson hook fingerstyle at least.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 26, 2015, 07:37:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIBGGVdywk

Earlyish Blondie starts around 7:30.  Not sure who is playing bass, but that looks like a Triumph to the right of Debbie. He plays with his hand over the bridge but there's a headstock shot starting around 22:30.

OH, here's the full set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bkJKhs8Ln0

better quality (not as blurry) except when things move too fast and it squares off a bit.  Definately not Nigel Harrison (he was always such a P guy anyway... and you could spot his hair from the back of the room); I'm gonna wager Gary Valentine but it could be Chris Stein.

... yep Valentine. Confirmation of that and actual Triumph use courtesy of Jules:

http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/LesPaulTriumph_players.php
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on January 27, 2015, 07:23:38 AM
This video of Belgian band Marble Sounds features my ex-bass, the Gibson Triumph that I sold a little over a year ago.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXTYVHqdPw

You sold your Triumph?  :o Wow, that relationship with that 20/20 chick IS SERIOUS after all.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on January 27, 2015, 07:41:51 AM
Relax Uwe.
I sold it when my former company (with Tom) had ended. And the new one wasn't up and running yet. It was a transitional period of about two months without income. The Triumph was the only bass (that I could part with) that would bring in any serious money.

Since it has a sound and playability that is almost identical to my beloved Les Paul Bass it wasn't that hard to let go. Whenever I wanted that sound and that character I've always preferred that Les Paul Bass over the Triumph anyway.

Maybe I'll buy one back some day.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: lowend1 on January 27, 2015, 06:00:25 PM
A personal Supersuckers fave...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEZAIX24h00

...along with a poor quality rarity of Paul & Gene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSdEvGy-PXk
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: lowend1 on January 27, 2015, 06:52:43 PM
Ah, the 80s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS_tTq94uPo
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: chromium on March 17, 2015, 10:50:40 PM
Triumph sighting w/Josh Homme and PJ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glb_moRvgps
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 18, 2015, 07:18:31 AM
Ah, the 80s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS_tTq94uPo

Indeed. Sometimes you really have to miss them.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on March 20, 2015, 11:33:14 AM
Sometimes you have to miss the nineties too. Wish Gibson made more of these 5 string Les Paul basses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBP8FnFOqak
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 20, 2015, 12:08:25 PM
Sounds like a TCT electronics driven Standard alright though you don't have to dial it quite as "bony" as that. Incidentally (and I'm sure only by accident), Gibson have never made a bad 5er. From the first Gibson V to the 5er Les Pauls to the 5er Studio TBs and today's 5er EBs, they are all even sounding beasts with mighty B strings.

Which reminds me of the Continental V I was cruelly bereft of ...  :-\
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on March 20, 2015, 12:20:13 PM
That reminds me, wonder if that V bass that isn't actually a V shape is going to become a reality?
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=9149.0
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Dave W on March 20, 2015, 10:01:42 PM
That reminds me, wonder if that V bass that isn't actually a V shape is going to become a reality?
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=9149.0

I'll be surprised if it ever shows up. For all we know, there may not even be a prototype. A couple of the sites that had it listed no longer show it. And Anderton's in the UK still has a page for it but it says:

This product is currently unavailable
We may not yet have a price for this item
This product may be discontinued
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 23, 2015, 07:53:12 AM
I will never again get into expectant mode regarding anything from the House of Gibson containing the number "V". The amount of derision that has been poured on me in this forum of forums has left me a broken man.  :-X
Title: Not Bill Wyman on a hobbit
Post by: Dave W on June 03, 2015, 11:02:50 AM
Not the Stones, either.  :)

Now-US Senator Al Franken (D-MN) as Mick and the late Tom Davis as Keith. It's the finale of a comedy gig they did in 1982 and released later as a movie, but IMDB doesn't list any other cast members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-j3HRAoSs
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 03, 2015, 11:45:22 AM
I don't remember Al ever being that fit... or scantily clad, now that I think about it.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on June 16, 2015, 02:23:08 PM
Tina, Chuck and a Hobbit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LZuQ9E4JQ
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on June 17, 2015, 12:07:09 PM
In sad news, Eddie Spaghetti of the Supersuckers, who is famous for his black Les Paul Standard that he's used live and in the studio for the past two decades, was diagnosed with stage 3 oropharynx cancer. Here's hoping that his tough ol' rock 'n ass is going to beat that cancer but good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PmOc3ZDxqU
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on June 29, 2015, 07:37:10 AM
Some surprising chick rock with a red LP standard holding on and holding it in...  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeoitcGVyBE
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Highlander on June 30, 2015, 05:25:41 PM
Damn... her voice... Kryptonite... :o
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: doombass on July 05, 2015, 08:41:56 AM
Yup, that's the Epiphone variant.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on July 06, 2015, 04:57:43 AM
Yup, that's the Epiphone variant.

You're right. I hadn't really taken the time to watch the vid in full screen. One thing though, there is NO way that thing has the stock Epi pickups, which are terrible. I have a black Epi LP Standard and have played several others and the pickups are all very nasal, distorted and midrangey. (Mine sports Fralins now) I wonder about the production numbers on the Epi Standards. They very likely may be a case of the lower cost version being less produced than Gibson's "official" LP Standard and as such, I say it ought to count anyway.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Highlander on July 06, 2015, 03:20:46 PM
Still a perfectly valid vid for this thread though... ;)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 30, 2015, 12:29:44 PM
Unexpected Hobbit sighting. It's hard to believe there was a time guys looking like this and playing this type of music would be encouraged to perform on TV and that chicks would then be attracted to them. Where did it all go wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQIhE5s00Z0
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 30, 2015, 12:48:26 PM
Is that dude actually wearing a (martial arts ) "gi" on stage/TV? 
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: nofi on September 30, 2015, 02:41:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Pilgrim on October 01, 2015, 10:55:33 AM
Is that dude actually wearing a (martial arts ) "gi" on stage/TV?

Gi?
Si!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on October 01, 2015, 02:39:49 PM
Is that dude actually wearing a (martial arts ) "gi" on stage/TV?


That's nothing strange, Jake, in the 70ies lots of people did: Rush, Yes, Todd Rundgren/Utopia, Jethro Tull (Proggies had a real penchant for it) and - Ho-ho-ho-ho!!! ... diddel-ding-diddel-ding-diddel-ding ... - Carl Douglas. Everybody was Kung-Fu Fight(n)ing  ...
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 02, 2015, 06:35:40 AM
So what you're saying is that, basically , the nerds that got their asses kicked all the way through high school put up this front when they got a bit famous later.  Gotcha.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gearHed289 on October 02, 2015, 09:09:46 AM
Silk kimonos are cool, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGEVIvSFeY
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Alanko on October 02, 2015, 02:51:16 PM
Is that dude actually wearing a (martial arts ) "gi" on stage/TV?

I'm not sure, I was distracted by the ugly, pointless modding that had occurred to that Les Paul jr DC the other guitarist was playing. What is all that filth up by the neck?
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 03, 2015, 05:15:08 AM
Well I can't say I have any problem with that sort of carry on (looks like a mudbucker; doubt it is, but I appreciate the nod).
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on October 04, 2015, 01:11:42 AM
(looks like a mudbucker; doubt it is, but I appreciate the nod).

It looks more to me like a Fender-bass-style string guard. That looks like a normal P-90 underneath.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Dave W on October 04, 2015, 07:31:13 PM
It's some kind of guard, all right. Possibly to cover some kind of damage.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 05, 2015, 08:02:09 AM
It was blurry and he's moving a lot so I couldn't see real good, I just saw something metal and wider than a typical humbucker. Anyway, looks good/right there ;P
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on October 05, 2015, 11:33:31 AM
Silk kimonos are cool, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGEVIvSFeY

There is always a time and a place for sartorial elegance, especially, dare I say it, with North Americans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJ_ifjKopM
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on October 05, 2015, 11:02:13 PM
Nothing wrong with a martial arts suit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Eq5Xn23h8
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 05, 2015, 10:30:58 PM
Our band just finished this promo video with me on my trusty LPB. Watch it in 1080p for best results. Hope you like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk5C2E8LgfY
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gearHed289 on November 06, 2015, 08:21:49 AM
Nice man! Great voice. That video just blew away anything on the CMA awards the other night. (OK, I didn't actually watch the CMAs, just a guess...)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Pilgrim on November 06, 2015, 10:05:08 AM
That is one great video promo!

Good choice to start with the Johnny Cash music - you have an outstanding voice, and close enough to Cash that it's amazing.  Overall, that whole band has great voices, and the musicianship sounds top-notch.

I'd go see you, even though I'm not a country fan!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 06, 2015, 10:56:05 AM
Thank you gentlemen!!  You just made my day ;D  I love when someone who's not into country digs it!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on November 06, 2015, 11:42:18 AM
Great voice dude. 
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 06, 2015, 12:06:03 PM
Thanks, G.G.! I'm kind of a late bloomer vocally. I've always been able to carry a tune, but it's too low for pop and too clean for rock.  I didn't grow up with country but was introduced to the vintage stuff a few years ago and fell in love with it!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on November 06, 2015, 12:26:06 PM
Yeah, I'm a late vocal bloomer too.  The vintage influence shows.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Dave W on November 06, 2015, 04:10:01 PM
Great promo! I especially liked your cover of Don't Worry.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 06, 2015, 05:14:30 PM
Thanks, Dave! It's not as well known as some of his other hits but it seems to go over. Here's an un-mixed recording of "Big Iron" from the same show. I forgot the second verse--DOH!!

https://clyp.it/lflkm21i
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Pilgrim on November 06, 2015, 05:29:31 PM
Holy crap! That's channeling Marty Robbins something phenomenal! I could easily believe that was him in an alternate take.

And that number is one of my top favorites from the late 60's along with Dick Curless' number (which you might want to try) called "The Heartline Special." I still remember that one...and you could pull it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utJLlEruKjg

Here's a Dick Curless number from the big rig/CB era that Uwe would like....Chick Inspector. Dick Curless was interesting - tall, lanky guy with an eye patch; sang a lot of trucker songs from the mid-60's through the early 70's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvC8C_SwOU
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 06, 2015, 05:59:16 PM
WOW--what a cool voice he has!! Definitely lower than mine. I'm gonna seek out more from him for sure. I don't think I could get away with "Chick Inspector" in this day and age though. Women would rush the stage for all the wrong reasons!  I only do one truck drivin' song so far.  Here's Six Days on the Road, again from the same show:

https://clyp.it/cnpym530
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Dave W on November 06, 2015, 08:26:13 PM
You channel Dave Dudley well, too.

Gotta laugh at Al. Mention country and he immediately brings up Dick Curless. NTTAWWT

Other deep voiced singers you might not be aware of are Johnny Seay (who's still around) and Jack Barlow.

https://youtu.be/AZBDlaf6BZQ

This one always amuses me, for some perverse reason.

https://youtu.be/qpN5fHnzqSI
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on November 06, 2015, 11:56:31 PM
To add to the chorus of well-deserved vocal praise, on the Marty Robbins tunes, you sound like Marty but also sound enough like Chris Isaak, a card carrying old-country genuine article disguised as a rock star, enough that you could easily handle anything is his or his idol's, Roy Orbison's, catalog. Great promo video too. Your management company seems to be earning their money.

BTW re: the CMA's the other night, there was some exceptional live music on it, but it was mostly from the cross-genre guest band matchups, so when I say there was good live music on the CMA's and none of it was country, that's not a dig, just the literal truth. Justin Timberlake singing Memphis soul on the CMA's and doing it every bit as authentic as you would expect it to be fake; the world's gone backwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZOKDmorj0

 
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 07, 2015, 12:03:19 AM
You channel Dave Dudley well, too.

Gotta laugh at Al. Mention country and he immediately brings up Dick Curless. NTTAWWT

Other deep voiced singers you might not be aware of are Johnny Seay (who's still around) and Jack Barlow.

Thanks, Dave!! I hadn't heard of Johnny Seay, but his voice is irresistible to someone like me who's a fan of that OTHER Johnny. :) As a matter of fact I'd say he nails Cash's style but is technically a better singer.  I love the slap-back echo on that track, it really captures that early J.C. sound.  We did "Big River" in the studio earlier this year with a little echo on the vocal:

https://clyp.it/n2kkls51
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: finlover on November 07, 2015, 12:21:06 AM
To add to the chorus of well-deserved vocal praise, on the Marty Robbins tunes, you sound like Marty but also sound enough like Chris Isaak, a card carrying old-country genuine article disguised as a rock star, enough that you could easily handle anything is his or his idol's, Roy Orbison's, catalog. Great promo video too. Your management company seems to be earning their money.

BTW re: the CMA's the other night, there was some exceptional live music on it, but it was mostly from the cross-genre guest band matchups, so when I say there was good live music on the CMA's and none of it was country, that's not a dig, just the literal truth. Justin Timberlake singing Memphis soul on the CMA's and doing it every bit as authentic as you would expect it to be fake; the world's gone backwards:
Thanks a million, Psycho Bass Guy! Roy Orbison is one of my all-time favorites. I'd have to lower most of his songs a bit to be able to pull them off because of their incredible range. I already do "Only the Lonely" but I'd love to work up "Crying" or "Running Scared" someday. I always have to keep danceability in mind though. Maybe "You Got It" would be a good choice.

I didn't watch the CMAs myself but it sounds like I missed some good performances. I'm generally not a fan of modern country but I love me some Justin Timberlake--his talent is just staggering!
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Post by: Basvarken on November 07, 2015, 01:22:57 AM
Great voice. Great band. Lovely Les Paul Bass.
Hattrick!  ;)
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Post by: finlover on November 07, 2015, 09:26:11 AM
Thanks so much, Rob!! You've got a fantastic band yourself! Plus you manage to make a 20/20 look like the coolest bass on Earth--maybe it's the western shirt 8)
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Post by: Basvarken on November 07, 2015, 12:46:52 PM
Thanx haha, it's gotta be the shirt that does that   :toast:
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Post by: Pilgrim on November 07, 2015, 02:17:48 PM

Gotta laugh at Al. Mention country and he immediately brings up Dick Curless. NTTAWWT


Didn't realize I was that predictable, but whottheheck. No harm.

When I was a country DJ for a brief period, I was much more a fan of ballads that told interesting stories than any other country form. It was the late 60's when some of the old great ballads by Marty Robbins and others were still reasonably current. A few of the existing artists like Curless and Merle Haggard had been doing trucker songs.

Six Days on the Road was a huge hit back then, as were Mama Tried and Folsom Prison Blues, Daddy Sang Bass, and it was when Glen Campbell's version of Galveston opened a new door in country music. Thinking about Dave Dudley and Glen Campbell kind of captures the contrast.
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Post by: nofi on November 07, 2015, 10:21:12 PM
my wife has this single. who knew. :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COfL-jtdFWQ
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Post by: Dave W on November 07, 2015, 10:58:46 PM
Didn't realize I was that predictable, but whottheheck. No harm.

When I was a country DJ for a brief period, I was much more a fan of ballads that told interesting stories than any other country form. It was the late 60's when some of the old great ballads by Marty Robbins and others were still reasonably current. A few of the existing artists like Curless and Merle Haggard had been doing trucker songs.

Six Days on the Road was a huge hit back then, as were Mama Tried and Folsom Prison Blues, Daddy Sang Bass, and it was when Glen Campbell's version of Galveston opened a new door in country music. Thinking about Dave Dudley and Glen Campbell kind of captures the contrast.

Definitely no harm. I've got tons of great music by country artists from the 50s and 60s that most of you never heard of. Nothing wrong with promoting Dick Curless' music, it just amuses me that you bring him up every time. There are others, you know!  :)

This is what I think of when his name comes up, because it got more commercial airplay than his other stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlVZO4LiU08
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Post by: Pilgrim on November 08, 2015, 09:39:17 AM
The guy had a really resonant voice.  My choice is limited by the fact that I lived in a small town and the station playing country had a very limited library, so I missed out on that cut and many other country tunes.

Within a year I was focused more on rock and buying Beatles and Doors records.

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Post by: Aussie Mark on November 08, 2015, 02:01:48 PM
That is one great video promo!

Good choice to start with the Johnny Cash music - you have an outstanding voice, and close enough to Cash that it's amazing.  Overall, that whole band has great voices, and the musicianship sounds top-notch.

I'd go see you, even though I'm not a country fan!

+1 !
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Post by: patman on November 08, 2015, 03:15:57 PM
Just watched the promo...I would love to see the band live. You guys are great...
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Post by: Dave W on November 08, 2015, 11:07:06 PM
Thanks, Dave!! I hadn't heard of Johnny Seay, but his voice is irresistible to someone like me who's a fan of that OTHER Johnny. :) As a matter of fact I'd say he nails Cash's style but is technically a better singer.  I love the slap-back echo on that track, it really captures that early J.C. sound.  We did "Big River" in the studio earlier this year with a little echo on the vocal:

https://clyp.it/n2kkls51

Excellent studio track.

Johnny Seay lives in Glen Rose, east of Stephenville. I don't know if he performs anymore. Go visit him and get him to do a duet with you!
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Post by: finlover on November 10, 2015, 08:08:34 AM
Just watched the promo...I would love to see the band live. You guys are great...
Thanks, patman! Come see us if you're in Austin sometime. Bring your bass and we'll do a country version of "Big Bottom"! :mrgreen:



Excellent studio track.

Johnny Seay lives in Glen Rose, east of Stephenville. I don't know if he performs anymore. Go visit him and get him to do a duet with you!
I sure hope he still performs with a voice like that! Looks like a CD is in the works: http://www.johnnyseay.com/
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Post by: uwe on December 21, 2015, 10:01:10 AM
Jimmy with a Hobbit.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x191fdt_slade-my-friend-stan-rocking-all-over-the-world-rbb-germany_music
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Post by: pjm on January 08, 2016, 05:53:20 PM
LP bass got the blues baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVRGoe7ek0
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Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on March 19, 2016, 11:35:20 PM
Unknown Hinson via the Squidbillies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT8QbKMiefE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53YK67Ufwlw
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on March 20, 2016, 07:01:02 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuJGxq_pcM
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Post by: Dave W on March 20, 2016, 07:32:48 PM
Unknown Hinson via the Squidbillies:
....

Unknown actually played bass (out of character) on tour with Billy Bob Thornton's Boxmasters a few years back. Unfortunately no Gibsons in the pics I saw. I've also seen video clips of him playing a Rick back when he was still unknown outside North Carolina. He played an Brit singer/bassist named Veg McArtful.  ;D

He's touring again (in character) and will be here in June with the Rev. Horton Heat.
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Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on March 20, 2016, 09:25:39 PM
The band I produced, the Melungeons, or one of their alter-ego bands, have opened for Unknown Hinson here in Knoxville and some regional gigs since he was, well... unknown.  Growing up, I used to know so many people who legitimately spoke like his character's inflection (which is VERY much a Western North Carolina/ Northeast Tennessee dialect), but they're all dead now. Sadly, I'm now probably as close as it gets without parody. That Billie Joe Shaver wrote and performed the Squidbillies theme is another cool bonus.

  Unknown Hinson has a signature guitar and distortion pedal with Reverend. I think Gibson bought a blanket endorsement with Adult Swim on Cartoon Network for Metalocalypse and got Squidbillies by accident. It was also funny that both types of basses featured, Thunderbird Studio V's and Les Paul Standards, were either completely out of or in extremely limited production for the entire runs of both shows.
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Post by: Dave W on March 21, 2016, 03:45:01 PM
I've seen videos of him with the Reverend. Sounds great in his hands.
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Post by: Dave W on March 22, 2016, 02:54:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=558KjnZuhPc
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Post by: 4stringer77 on July 01, 2016, 12:36:32 PM
Probably some of the sickest lines ever laid down on an Epi Les Paul bass. Solo starts at around 5:45.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAucAP-pNY
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Post by: uwe on July 08, 2016, 05:14:12 PM
Is that Reggie McBride, he of Rare Earth and Tommy Bolin Band fame?
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Post by: 4stringer77 on July 08, 2016, 06:28:56 PM
No, haven't you heard? Martina McBride had a major identity crisis a few years back and this is what we're left with. Country music's loss is the Jazz world's gain I suppose.
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Post by: uwe on July 12, 2016, 01:31:58 PM
Seriously, this is Reggie then? Doesn't look like him at all.

(https://playingforchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/reggie-2.jpg)

I loved his playing on this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-jjVeWS_y4
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Post by: 4stringer77 on July 12, 2016, 01:55:01 PM
Ah, I figured you were kidding. Reggie is cool but the guy playing the Epi LP is Christian McBride. He's more known as an upright player but doubles on electric too. You may recognize him from the Sting concert in Italy from a few years back. He has quite an extensive Jazz resume as well.
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Post by: Dave W on July 12, 2016, 07:32:46 PM
I thought it was Bake McBride of the Phillies!
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Post by: uwe on July 14, 2016, 06:22:24 AM
Ah, I figured you were kidding. Reggie is cool but the guy playing the Epi LP is Christian McBride. He's more known as an upright player but doubles on electric too. You may recognize him from the Sting concert in Italy from a few years back. He has quite an extensive Jazz resume as well.

I actually have a CD of Christian McBride, but him playing an electric didn't ring with me at all. Now that you say it - duh! Finally, it all makes sense, I already thought Reggie McBride had found the secrets to eternal youth! Christian plays like an upright player would, certainly not as attack happy as Reggie did.
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Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on July 16, 2016, 12:13:34 AM
Here's a double weird one: the original band playing post-band solo material. In the early days, Robert Sledge famously used an Epi LP standard, but for this reunion in 2013, he's got a big-bodied Gibson. I figure it's the product of endorsement; note Ben's Baldwin piano. Robert actually auctioned off his original Epi that's on all the albums on eBay and it went for around $600.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5J3F037EU
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Post by: Basvarken on July 16, 2016, 02:51:45 AM
Nice playing. Nice tone!

The left hand on the piano and the bass guitar do tend to flam here and there.
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Post by: gearHed289 on July 17, 2016, 08:56:45 AM
Here's a double weird one: the original band playing post-band solo material. In the early days, Robert Sledge famously used an Epi LP standard, but for this reunion in 2013, he's got a big-bodied Gibson. I figure it's the product of endorsement; note Ben's Baldwin piano. Robert actually auctioned off his original Epi that's on all the albums on eBay and it went for around $600.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5J3F037EU

Pretty sure that's a regular bodied LP with the Warwick bridge and tailpiece. I remember seeing these guys on Conan or smething years ago, and he was laying down some cool fuzz riffs on a Les Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cW00u7cfk
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Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on July 17, 2016, 10:14:06 PM
I watched and stopped the video a few times and couldn't decide if it was big body or not, (hard to tell when you don't know the relative size of the player) but the Warwick bridge is obvious. I forgot they weren't used on the big ones. I discovered Ben Folds  20+ years ago after a write up in some guitar magazine because Ben used to put his piano, via a pickup, through a Marshall stack.  Most of the early stuff was cut when they were all dirt poor on a red Epi Paul, and it appeared that after the first success with "Brick", they all got endorsement instruments. Even all of the oldest videos have Sledge with a Gibson, but if you look up their earliest shows, it's the Epi. I was surprised the bass didn't go for more on eBay, but I think most of Fold's current hipster fans could care less about the bass. It even came with a hardshell case. I think he may have sold off one of his SVT's too, which is how I found the bass auction.
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Post by: Highlander on September 17, 2016, 12:50:51 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYyRI-f7Vk
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Post by: Basvarken on October 20, 2016, 01:22:01 PM
Dutch band The Buffoons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Kr0RnBcXA
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Post by: Dave W on October 20, 2016, 07:14:55 PM
You don't see Richie Valens covers that often.
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Post by: Basvarken on October 20, 2016, 10:40:36 PM
You don't see this model Les Paul Bass that often!
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 21, 2016, 07:34:37 AM
I gotta say: Longhorns work much better for me as a guitar than a bass. 
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Post by: Rob on October 21, 2016, 05:38:45 PM
I gotta say: Longhorns work much better for me as a guitar than a bass.

Me 2 but they were good when tracked against uprights in early R&R
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Post by: Dave W on October 21, 2016, 06:20:30 PM
Longhorn basses are fine with me. No shortage of low end. Billy Bacon comes to mind.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 22, 2016, 05:43:11 AM
I mean aesthetically.  They look so dang stoopid.  They sound a'ight. 
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Post by: Dave W on October 22, 2016, 10:31:01 AM
They are awkward looking.
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Post by: westen44 on October 23, 2016, 05:40:37 PM
The Longhorn, although unusual looking, does seem to be popular with a number of people, though.  But I prefer the much lesser known Hodad.  I got one of these about a month ago from MF, right before they were discontinued.  The metallic blue looks way better than I was expecting.  And like the article says, it plays well and sounds good, too.  I've only played a Longhorn once in a music store, but I did like the way it sounded, too. 


http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/bass/danelectro-hodad-bass-569290

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Post by: slinkp on October 23, 2016, 08:45:12 PM
I have loved the DC model since I got it ten or so years ago, and I find it aesthetically much nicer than the Hodad.  Silver sparkle!
(http://slinkp.com/~paul/gear_2007/lpb_greco_danodc.jpg)
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Post by: westen44 on October 23, 2016, 10:02:58 PM
To me the DC looks good in any color. 
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Post by: 66Atlas on October 24, 2016, 04:35:45 PM
Do epi Signatures count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuK6n2Lkza0

Met (some of) these guys a decade or so ago, all really down to earth.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 25, 2016, 06:54:50 AM
Oh yeah, the Epi JC Sig counts.

Re the Danos - what's the diff between a Hodad and DC?  Same body shape and pickups, right (I think maybe the bridge pup was not as close to the bridge on the Hodad maybe)?  That is the one Dano I was lusting for for a while (Hodad; short lived model wasn't it?).
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Post by: westen44 on October 25, 2016, 10:53:22 PM
In my opinion, the Hodad looks too much like a cross between a Dano and a Mosrite to please Danelectro purists.  I like it, but maybe I'm not a purist.  I think the review from Music Radar was very accurate.  Except that guy wrote that in 2013 and had no way of knowing the bass would be discontinued in 2016.  Now if you want to buy a new Dano the only ones being sold at this point are Longhorns and the '56 Singlecut bass.  As for the best looking, I'd also favor the DC (silver sparkle.)  But if you find one of those, of course, it will have to be used.  I've never even got a chance to play one. 

Now back to Les Paul basses. 
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Post by: slinkp on October 27, 2016, 05:16:51 AM
Oh yeah, the Epi JC Sig counts.

Re the Danos - what's the diff between a Hodad and DC?  Same body shape and pickups, right (I think maybe the bridge pup was not as close to the bridge on the Hodad maybe)?  That is the one Dano I was lusting for for a while (Hodad; short lived model wasn't it?).

Different body shape. The DC is symmetrical.
The Hodad is the asymmetrical moserite-like body.
Same pickups, or at least they look the same.
There's a picture of my silver sparkle DC somewhere earlier in this thread.

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Post by: westen44 on October 27, 2016, 06:00:53 AM
Different body shape. The DC is symmetrical.
The Hodad is the asymmetrical moserite-like body.
Same pickups, or at least they look the same.
There's a picture of my silver sparkle DC somewhere earlier in this thread.

Maybe because it's asymmetrical, the Hodad can also be slightly uncomfortable to play sitting down.  It does fine when you're standing up, though, and there is not even a hint of neck dive. 
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 27, 2016, 06:30:33 AM
Different body shape. The DC is symmetrical.
The Hodad is the asymmetrical moserite-like body.

Huh, totally missrememberred that; had to google image the Hodad to remember.   I saw your DC earlier and conflated the 2.
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Post by: slinkp on October 27, 2016, 11:20:32 AM
The DC does fine in the neck dive department as well, because they neck weighs about as much as a toothpick. I think it IS a toothpick.

I did do two slight mods to my DC that improved it a lot, I think:

* The plastic stock strap buttons are AWFUL. They pop right out of the body if you tug on them.  I drilled out the hole (easy with these kooky materials), glued in a piece of hardwood dowel, drilled a 1/8" hole in the dowel, and screwed in my favorite Dunlop Dual-Design strap buttons, which (mostly) hide the dowel. No more dropping the bass ever!

* I wanted the pickups closer to the strings. They're pretty weak, cool tone but not much output.  The pickup height is adjusted by screws through the BACK of the body, which works okay, except that they cannot be raised very close to the strings at all because there's nothing pushing the pickups up - they will flop around in the body long before you run out of screw length.  So I took them out and wedged some foam under them. That did the trick.

I also have a U2 guitar of the same vintage (1999ish?), which is basically a single-cut six-string version with all the same hardware.  I did the same two mods to it too.

If I were going to change anything else on the bass I'd replace the tuners, which are hard to turn with those little buttons, but do stay in tune pretty well.  I'd be afraid of adding weight to the headstock though.
The crude quasi-adjustable bridge doesn't bother me much (I can get the intonation pretty good), except that the wrapping on the E string tends to extend past the saddle, so the E sounds a bit deadened. I notice it when playing alone, but it doesn't stand out in a band context.


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Post by: Basvarken on December 05, 2016, 12:45:44 PM
One of my favorite bands of today doing a cover of the Allman Brothers.
Bass player Richard Turner is playing a Les Paul Signature bass.

https://youtu.be/g8dPch9p4P0
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Post by: westen44 on December 06, 2016, 12:06:11 PM
They really do ABB stuff well.  Here is one featuring Gregg Allman himself.  (Just audio, though, unfortunately.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmfD5DVahW8&list=PLafvie0n6woOFu2deaa9JlEdCRVFm9kOU
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Post by: uwe on January 05, 2017, 10:54:59 AM
Jo Cox was the British Labour MP murdered last year by some nutcase. This was a single to commemorate her and it features a very early (holy immaculate three-point!) pre-Warwick bridge sunburst Les Paul Standard bass played by former MP Ian Cawsey of the British Parliament house band MP4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4_(band)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvF2llqLzxA

And to keep this from getting too political: MP4 consists of Labour, Scottish National Party and Conservative MPs. No UKIP though.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 05, 2017, 12:02:18 PM
If your name isn't Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil), or you weren't a musician first (he was), stay the hell away from music if you're a politician.  Seriously, it's always horrible, and usually mind-bogglingly ironic.

I didn't need to hear this, but I had to because he was the fookin PM and all the news were running it. youtube.com/watch?v=C5ecDo74Vkc (< intentionally not embeded in order to not propogate the cruelty, but for reference for the masochists among us).

There's also vids of him doing With a Little Help from my Friends (did I mention he's ultra-conservative?), Jumpin Jack Flash and Sweet Caroline (which is the only one that remotely makes any sense for him to touch).
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Post by: uwe on January 05, 2017, 01:01:37 PM
Maybe Geddy, Neil and Alex should become politicians now that they have stopped touring?
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Post by: Highlander on January 05, 2017, 02:07:50 PM
Err... when did he stop being politically orientated...? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRE9vMBBe10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ZTp-ydlT8

I think you get my drift... :mrgreen:
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 05, 2017, 03:13:25 PM
Maybe Geddy, Neil and Alex should become politicians now that they have stopped touring?

They'd certainly win, but I wonder what party they 'd run for.  Not sure if it would be worth splitting their fandom over it; that's their retirement fund.

Err... when did he stop being politically orientated...? ;)


Not sure what you mean, but I didn't mean that musicians shouldn't be political; but that politicians shouldn't be musical (the Commutative Law of Arithmetic does not apply).
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Post by: Highlander on January 05, 2017, 03:25:46 PM
No, I got what you said Jake... the prob with Garrett was that his heart was in the right place but the machination of politics (the "back-room-boys" that never change) could never let such an aberration live... my response was to the politische beobachtung (if I've got that right) of Ze Kollectur... :vader:
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Post by: uwe on January 05, 2017, 03:40:36 PM
I like Neil Young. Not everything he does, he does way too much (no sane person can like all of his inspiration diarreah), but enough of it.
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Post by: Highlander on January 05, 2017, 04:54:34 PM
He once made a comment that none of his lyrics meant anything in general and were mostly just random thoughts and scribblings...
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Post by: Dave W on January 05, 2017, 08:09:31 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LZuQ9E4JQ
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Post by: Basvarken on January 06, 2017, 04:02:05 AM
Haha I was searching for the politics in this video.
Took me a while to spot the Triumph!  :o :mrgreen:
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Post by: uwe on January 06, 2017, 07:11:37 AM
Are we having a slow day, Rob?

Listening to an Enya CD in the office, by the time she's done I'll be mentally slow too.
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Post by: Basvarken on January 06, 2017, 08:33:57 AM
Yep, I'm definitely in the lowest gear. I'm enjoying a two week holiday.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pilgrim on January 06, 2017, 10:43:07 AM
He once made a comment that none of his lyrics meant anything in general and were mostly just random thoughts and scribblings...

That sounds strangely familiar in the context of today's US politics. Further deponent sayeth not.
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Post by: Highlander on January 06, 2017, 05:50:21 PM
Ah, cousin Donald... :mrgreen:

Went to Applecross today, near Skye, and had to cross a very narrow and steep mountain crossing... the "Scotch Mist" was that bad that the person I met at the site had his wife walk in front of the car with a torch to make sure they were staying on the road...
Some vertical drops are present on this pass and climb... :o
I was hopeful of getting some decent sunrise pics but... didn't help my mind-set for the day either... post 2016 blues...
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Post by: Basvarken on March 27, 2017, 11:56:32 AM
Here is Dutch band Racoon with their bass player Stefan de Kroon using a Gibson Les Paul Bass.
There's a little story to him using this bass here.

Racoon recorded their latest album at ICP studios in Brussels. That studio has a huge collection of vintage instruments, amps, drumkits, etc
Stefan found a Gibson Les Paul Bass there and fell in love with it. He used it on the new album.
And when the album was done and the band left the studio he wanted one himself. But he didn't know where to start.
So he asked around on Facebook for help. Chris directed him to me. And we got in touch.
I did some searching for him and I found a couple of Gibson Les Paul Bass guitars for sale on Ebay and some other sites.
So Stefan bought a nice Les Paul Bass on Ebay for a good price.

When it arrived in The Netherlands, it turned out a previous owner had installed the (original) external impedance transformer plug in the control cavity.
Stefan had his tech take it out to get the bass back in its original state.

And today I saw him on this Dutch TV show with his new love!
I've been flying the Les Paul Bass flag for 17 years, and now finally one shows up on national television. Feel like a missionairy, haha!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORAD171N33I


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Post by: uwe on March 27, 2017, 03:31:30 PM
Ah, Moses, for never faltering in faith, you get to see the Holy Land after all!
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Post by: Basvarken on October 21, 2017, 10:00:10 AM
Here's Richard Turner of Blackberry Smoke playing a Les Paul Signature.
Allman Bros cover One Way Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dPch9p4P0
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on October 21, 2017, 10:29:27 AM
 :rolleyes: I thought that flag had even gone out of style with Lynyrd Skynyrd? If you don't want to be viewed bedding with the wrong people, just don't use it.
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Post by: Pilgrim on October 21, 2017, 12:05:13 PM
:rolleyes: I thought that flag had even gone out of style with Lynyrd Skynyrd? If you don't want to be viewed bedding with the wrong people, just don't use it.

Wise words. Unfortunately also cause for "holy war" in some quarters.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on October 21, 2017, 12:33:39 PM
I was mostly interested in the bass and the music... :-[
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Post by: uwe on October 21, 2017, 12:41:18 PM
I like the South of the US. The music, the food, the people, the landscape. But I've never reduced its identity to that flag which only existed for a fleeting moment in its overall history. Rhett Butler said beforehand that the whole thing was a bad idea, so there, they should have listened to him and Tara might still be there (if it could actually pay its workforce picking cotton that is)!  :mrgreen:

Some historical symbols become irrevocably tainted. By (i) what they (at least in part) stood for in history or (ii) by groups and individuals in current times that have adopted them for their own vile causes.

I wouldn't want to gig before a man size Waffen-SS insignia backdrop either. Wrong cause back then, wrong company today. And arguing "Hey, it's not a political symbol, it is not to condone the crimes and wrong goals of the Waffen-SS, but they were a splendid fighting unit!" just wouldn't cut it IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE1axH-PocI
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on October 21, 2017, 12:49:50 PM
I was mostly interested in the bass and the music... :-[

I know. There is no issue with either the bass or the music nor with you posting the vid. I like Blackberry Smoke myself, but the backdrop is unfortunate and in this day and age they should be aware of that. They are not Ted Nugent-type buffoons.

I am also not aware of any Northern US rock bands touring the South of the States with this as a backdrop:

(http://www.jocelyngreen.com/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/warishell.jpg)

Probably wouldn't go down that well either.
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Post by: Basvarken on October 21, 2017, 12:52:44 PM
Relax Uwe.
It is a performance from the Cinemax series Quarry.
A series dated in the early seventies if I'm not mistaken.
It's not a Blackberry Smoke concert.
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Post by: Dave W on October 21, 2017, 05:24:50 PM
The rebel flag is not going anywhere. It might have gradually died out, but the reaction to the statue-destroying Maoists has secured its place for a long time to come.
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Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on October 21, 2017, 07:30:11 PM
Uwe, if it makes you feel better, most folks around here didn't give a shit either way about that flag until it was made part of their propaganda briefings on how to stop the damn librulls from ruining their lives around 30 years ago. Now, all those wonderful northern transplants with their faux "Southern" culture can't get enough of it. There truthfully IS some "historical" and "heritage" context to it locally too: my ancestors (and most of the other folks from around here) shot the assholes carrying it in that war. I have seen the diehards who are neither actively racist (passive is a debate unto itself) nor particularly connected or informed politically who have flown it for years the same way American punks in the 80's plugged anarchy, more a "f*** you" to 'the man/the gubmint/the system than a declaration of allegiance to slave owning gentry, my whole life but we mostly just snickered at them and said, "Bless their hearts. They don't know any better."

Back to the bass: I love that tone in the video and could even believe it was coming from that Kustom he's plugged into.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 66Atlas on October 22, 2017, 06:57:59 AM
I watched that show, It was pretty good and I was bummed when it didn't come back. It took place in Memphis in 1972, so technically the flag makes more sense being there than the bass does  ;D
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on October 22, 2017, 07:15:27 AM
Well, it's not that far off. The Les Paul Signature was introduced in 1973.  ;)
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Post by: 66Atlas on October 22, 2017, 08:03:05 AM
It gives the show a whole HG Wells vibe  :toast:

(http://www.mymbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/The-time-machine.jpg)
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Post by: westen44 on October 22, 2017, 10:07:45 AM
The rebel flag is not going anywhere. It might have gradually died out, but the reaction to the statue-destroying Maoists has secured its place for a long time to come.

You are correct and I think only people who've lived in the South a long time can understand.  The rebel flag was becoming a common relic of the past.  Very few people paid any attention to it at all or cared much about it one way or another.  When ZZ Top did this video in 1990, the rebel flag in the background is nothing much more than a stage prop. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0968f0VWvd8


Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on October 22, 2017, 10:55:22 AM
Those basses are even cooler considering how ubiquitous the Epiphone has become. Didn't Jack say the pickups could be hit or miss? i wasn't too worried about being considered a racist for watching Dukes of Hazard reruns as a kid or listening to Pantera. I could see how being a David Allen Coe fan might rub people the wrong way but he wrote plenty of good songs too.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: westen44 on October 22, 2017, 11:12:04 AM
I have to plead ignorance on knowing much of anything about David Allen Coe.  But I think that may be him at the beginning of this Johnny Cash Video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc

Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on October 22, 2017, 11:54:09 AM
That's not him. I won't post them here but his adults only songs are good stuff.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 22, 2017, 12:36:29 PM
I love that tone in the video and could even believe it was coming from that Kustom he's plugged into.

Those Kustoms (ss right?) are surprisingly decent amps.  Not as heavily voiced as other amps (ampeg sounds like ampeg); it will let the bass's character come through, if you pick the right speaker to go with it.  I might have got lucky when I hit a studio a few years ago with one that it worked out (I brought mu 115rh cab and used a hobbit and an RD); I have also heard them sound bad, but usually through some shitty cab.
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Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on October 22, 2017, 01:52:31 PM
Those Kustoms (ss right?) are surprisingly decent amps.  Not as heavily voiced as other amps (ampeg sounds like ampeg); it will let the bass's character come through, if you pick the right speaker to go with it.  I might have got lucky when I hit a studio a few years ago with one that it worked out (I brought mu 115rh cab and used a hobbit and an RD); I have also heard them sound bad, but usually through some shitty cab.

Kustom, along with Earth (which IIRC was the same company) were early s/s. edit: Plush too; forgot about them!

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21916-ask-amp-man-the-mysterious-tusc

The article glosses over it but many of Peavey's early designs were copies of  the aforementioned.  CCR was their biggest claim to fame back in the day. All of the ones I have heard have been trash, which is why I was surprised by the video. Across the board, I've found them thin, weak, and quiet. Keep in mind these were all old and probably in need of some service, but it has been every one. I liked the tone in that video; it was nothing like I know Kustoms to sound.
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Post by: westen44 on October 22, 2017, 02:17:01 PM
That's not him. I won't post them here but his adults only songs are good stuff.

According to this, that's producer Rick Rubin. 

https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/05/11/people-in-the-johnny-cash-video-gods-gonna-cut-you-down/

Title: Uwe coming out ... finally ...
Post by: uwe on March 06, 2018, 12:46:51 PM
I'm a closet (Bay City) Rollers fan, always have been, Woody was my favourite Roller, now I can finally own up, here he is with a Triumph (during the period when he moved from rhythm guitar to bass following Alan Longmuir's departure) playing my favourite Rollers song, rejoice!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5vKD71csuU
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Post by: 4stringer77 on March 06, 2018, 05:48:27 PM
Are you sure that's the only thing in your closet?  :gay:
Seriously though, thanks for sharing a cool pop rock song.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 07, 2018, 07:13:16 AM
One thing at a time!
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Post by: gearHed289 on March 07, 2018, 08:42:58 AM
Interesting pickup combo on that Strat. Looks like a Fender humbucker in the middle, and a Gibson at the neck. Also, I've heard worse pop songs!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on July 16, 2018, 01:47:20 AM
Johnny Colt playing a Les Paul Signature Bass with the Black Crowes.
Traffic cover Feeling Alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW92NnggATg
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Post by: 4stringer77 on July 20, 2018, 09:01:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66m1sHLrU0A

and some more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B7yZhXp1y8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsy3fXgbAAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFaTFtfOnsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffr2o9HLeL8
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Post by: Basvarken on October 26, 2018, 12:12:51 AM
Beautiful white (yellowed) Triumph.

Mark Agnesi obviously isn't too enthousiastic about this bass. But it sounds great to my ears.


https://youtu.be/RAIm5pMHEvc
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Post by: Dave W on October 26, 2018, 01:50:08 PM
Sounds good to me. The tone, not his yammering. :)
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Post by: clankenstein on October 26, 2018, 02:15:59 PM
Gotta watch out for those large wavelength high impedance frequencies.
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Post by: 4stringer77 on January 05, 2019, 07:52:28 AM
I always picture Blind Melon with a Fender bass. Nice to stumble on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHPneIEAQyI

They used the same setup in England too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe52EN3czZk
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Post by: 4stringer77 on January 05, 2019, 08:05:23 AM
Figured I'd throw in this one too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJO67NszfA
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on January 05, 2019, 01:39:06 PM
I like that last one better.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Highlander on February 16, 2019, 05:30:32 PM
Stumbled on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZafH1qXKxMg
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Post by: Dave W on February 16, 2019, 08:07:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OO3S-XtB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kGPJ-ptmSo
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Post by: Basvarken on May 17, 2019, 10:28:17 AM
Maybe it's been posted before, but here's a 1969 Les Paul Bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio


Always found the music sheer crap. But she did look good in the leather cat suit with that Les Paul Bass, low on the hip.
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Post by: 4stringer77 on December 12, 2019, 03:13:26 PM
Not sure what's weirder, the song or the fact that a Gibson LPB-3 ended up in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDise_Em_Ug
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Post by: amptech on December 13, 2019, 02:42:32 AM
There's a third season of Twin Peaks coming up?
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 13, 2019, 05:34:58 AM
Not sure what's weirder, the song or the fact that a Gibson LPB-3 ended up in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDise_Em_Ug

Kinda sounds like riot grrl alt rock from the 90s.  Like the kinda stuff all the girls I liked in high school would be listenning to, you know, on the shelf between Anu Defranco and Veruca Salt.

There's a third season of Twin Peaks coming up?

Thats what I said when someone first played me some Orville Peck.
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Post by: uwe on December 13, 2019, 09:46:46 AM
Not sure what's weirder, the song or the fact that a Gibson LPB-3 ended up in it.

Just the kind of weirdness I appreciate, most lovely.
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Post by: doombass on March 26, 2020, 03:14:43 PM
Les Paul Triumph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHPneIEAQyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJO67NszfA
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Post by: doombass on March 31, 2020, 01:34:04 PM
Stumbled across another Les Paul Triumph. Pickup(s?) replaced though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgobMSa5eA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4t-P38plTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBrf8MQvFVg
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Post by: Dave W on March 31, 2020, 04:00:10 PM
https://youtu.be/30OO3S-XtB4
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Post by: 4stringer77 on May 01, 2020, 06:40:41 AM
I figure the single cut body validates the EB-650 as a type of Les Paul Bass.
Spotted Rick Rosas (RIP) playing one in an instructional vid with Joe Walsh. The bass enters at 16:47 and a bass solo at 18:45.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIKSWPxuN5Y
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Post by: gearHed289 on May 01, 2020, 07:53:04 AM
That was great. Love that flatwound tone.
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Post by: Basvarken on May 31, 2020, 06:04:31 AM
Yesterday there was a documentary about Suzi Quatro on Dutch tv.
Snippets of this song were in it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoZTO9Ine4I


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Post by: OldManC on June 27, 2020, 05:51:52 PM

https://youtu.be/ixLbQ1xzxTk

Been on a Jellyfish kick lately, and one of the guys in the band posted this on his Facebook page. Blew me away.
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Post by: uwe on August 28, 2020, 05:33:47 PM
A Paula (actually more than one) with different Finns ...

https://youtu.be/VvdDeyaJ0zw

... paying tribute to the late, great Gary Holton and his Heavy Metal Kids rabble rousers ...

https://youtu.be/PopHwKKNlWs
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Post by: TBird1958 on August 30, 2020, 12:14:12 PM


  Bang Tango's Kyle Klye playing a Les Paul.........Don't think it's a Gibson though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pL1bKlCNw
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Post by: Basvarken on August 30, 2020, 01:37:06 PM
Bang Tango! Now that’s a blast from the past.
I loved their first album. Great bass player.
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Post by: doombass on August 30, 2020, 03:12:00 PM

  Bang Tango's Kyle Klye playing a Les Paul.........Don't think it's a Gibson though.


You're right, it's a Hagström Swede.
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Post by: TBird1958 on September 04, 2020, 11:36:03 AM


 Bang Tango and Kyle Kyle cover T Rex, with a Les Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHplp9XYQqc
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Post by: uwe on September 06, 2020, 04:01:31 PM
Few people can sing like Marc Bolan, but he comes close.
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Post by: Basvarken on September 07, 2020, 09:51:05 AM

 Bang Tango and Kyle Kyle cover T Rex, with a Les Paul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHplp9XYQqc

That's a real Gibson Les Paul Bass / Triumph alright. But I'm pretty sure it was just for the video, because it doesn't sound like a Triumph at all. Sounds like an active Jazz Bass (or similar) was used for the recording.
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Post by: uwe on September 23, 2020, 09:24:44 AM
Kinda hard to tell, but I think it's an LPB ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWph3iSY7Y0
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Post by: uwe on September 23, 2020, 04:31:20 PM
Another LPB, Jeff Christie apparently doesn't play bass anymore, but his bassist plays an LP Standard, though it's all mimed to the original recording in any case ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiehaqVcJE
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Post by: Dave W on September 23, 2020, 05:39:05 PM
Another LPB, Jeff Christie apparently doesn't play bass anymore, but his bassist plays an LP Standard, though it's all mimed to the original recording in any case ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiehaqVcJE

Jeff Christie didn't play bass on the original, despite playing a P bass in the original (mimed) video. He wrote the song for the Tremeloes, who recorded it but decided not to release it. What you hear on the record is Jeff Christie's vocals and the Tremeloes' instrumental tracks.
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Post by: uwe on September 28, 2020, 03:42:05 PM
Jim Lea with a Triumph ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEgcQm89BU
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Post by: TBird1958 on September 29, 2020, 08:20:21 PM
Jim Lea with a Triumph ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEgcQm89BU
 


 When I saw them do this, Jim played the keys and Dave played Jim's bass. I think my ears are still ringing from that show, they were effingly loud.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 08, 2020, 04:11:30 PM
How were your eyes fine - jeebus those pants (also effin loud).
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Post by: TBird1958 on October 08, 2020, 07:59:51 PM
How were your eyes fine - jeebus those pants (also effin loud).
   

 It was the '70s!  I had a pair not all that different in high school and the red platform shoes too!
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on October 09, 2020, 06:50:59 AM
ok, but like, to be fair, you prolly still have platforms and you still look better in em.

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Post by: uwe on October 09, 2020, 07:20:55 PM
Jake is a sartorial conservative bordering on the reactionary - tell everyone!

In true fact, Noddy Holder invented steam punk fashion!  8) And - compared to his bandmates - his outfit was actually the best. Don Powell's Lamé dungareess - naw. Jim Lea's baby-blue knickerbockers? Give me a break. And the words "stylish fashion" and Dave Hill's name n'er shall meet in one sentence - unless it also contains the word NOT.  :mrgreen: Jim Lea was sometimes so aghast he would say: "I'm not going on stage with you dressed like that!"
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Post by: D.M.N. on October 09, 2020, 07:32:24 PM
I still have some shirts that could blind folks. Polyester doesn't breath, but it sure does shine!
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Post by: Basvarken on January 16, 2021, 02:33:09 PM
Johnny Colt playing a Les Paul Signature

Jump to 50:04

https://youtu.be/U1hg-suMoIk?t=3004
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Post by: Basvarken on March 12, 2021, 09:26:48 AM
Been having a John Waite day. The man still has an amazing voice.

His bass player Tim Hogan often plays either Thunderbird or -like in this performance- a Les Paul bass


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8rg6ajozyo
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Post by: gearHed289 on March 16, 2021, 07:32:53 AM
John Waite is the one who got me interested in Les Paul basses. I didn't know until the internet age that it was a Zemaitis he played back in the day, but the shape was clear.
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Post by: uwe on March 16, 2021, 07:46:19 AM
I thought his neo-Ziggy Stardust fake ginger mullet look he sported for a while rather unfortunate - that just didn't go with The Babys' tune- and skillful, but never cutting-edge music at all. He could have auditioned for The Cars with that. He looked kind of restless with it too and that seems to have been the red (no pun) thread of his chequered career. Torn between being Bryan Adams or David Bowie.

Excellent singer though.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on March 20, 2021, 10:51:27 AM
I saw a pick of the Raincoats using a Triumph at an outdoor show but can't find a vid of it.
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Post by: uwe on March 27, 2021, 06:21:02 AM
Woody mastering a Triumph.

https://youtu.be/a5vKD71csuU
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Post by: Pilgrim on March 27, 2021, 09:30:19 AM
Woody mastering a Triumph.

https://youtu.be/a5vKD71csuU

That's funny, I consider it a Triumph to master a Woody.
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Post by: uwe on March 28, 2021, 09:20:41 AM
 :mrgreen: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :mrgreen:
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Post by: TBird1958 on May 07, 2021, 12:05:36 PM


 While digging around on YT...... An unusual performance from The Alarm

https://youtu.be/Pqp-rfvRs3g?list=RDPqp-rfvRs3g
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Post by: uwe on May 07, 2021, 06:52:49 PM
What's unusual about it?
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Post by: TBird1958 on May 07, 2021, 09:16:13 PM


 No lead guitarist!

https://youtu.be/piQ3PhYuWiQ
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 08, 2021, 08:51:24 AM

 While digging around on YT...... An unusual performance from The Alarm

https://youtu.be/Pqp-rfvRs3g?list=RDPqp-rfvRs3g

That (formerly) white Triumph is almost as yellow as mine
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 09, 2021, 06:44:45 AM
Cassidy counts for the LP thread since reissue of an LP Sig right?  Not my fave DM song, but the bass is featured the most prominently out of the whole set.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dui0ZfbyHKc
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Post by: uwe on May 10, 2021, 01:51:41 PM
That (formerly) white Triumph is almost as yellow as mine

Rumors that you peed on yours have never really stopped here. And it's too late to eradicate them now.
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Post by: uwe on May 10, 2021, 01:53:04 PM

 No lead guitarist!


I didn't know they had one!  :mrgreen:
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Post by: uwe on May 10, 2021, 01:57:23 PM
Cassidy counts for the LP thread since reissue of an LP Sig right?  Not my fave DM song, but the bass is featured the most prominently out of the whole set.   

In rock circles, they are really an underrated band. Gahan is a great frontman. What Metallica is to heavy metal, Bon Jovi to AOR and U2 to strummy new wave guitar rock, DM is to synth romantic pop, a band that rose above the niche it came from and left it behind to conquer a mass market. I respect that.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 11, 2021, 07:18:26 AM
In rock circles, they are really an underrated band. Gahan is a great frontman. What Metallica is to heavy metal, Bon Jovi to AOR and U2 to strummy new wave guitar rock, DM is to synth romantic pop, a band that rose above the niche it came from and left it behind to conquer a mass market. I respect that.

True.  I"ve been a fanboy since back in the day.... hate Gahan's stage presence though (the random shoutouts at musically inopportune moments, and how he sometimes gets really out of breath), and when they take a banger and turn it into a piano ballad with Martin singing so Dave can have a break/wardrobe change.
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Post by: Ken on May 17, 2021, 06:27:28 AM
I didn't know they had one!  :mrgreen:

I guess Mike had to turn to Billy Duffy for that!

So glad Coloursound is back.  It's over 20 years since their first album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6iio5Z3B00
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Post by: TBird1958 on May 19, 2021, 08:11:17 AM

 London Quireboys........ Lots o Les Paul shaped objects  ;)

https://youtu.be/MHTZzwD7kzA
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 08, 2021, 06:30:12 PM
So I saw a pic of Husker Du using a Victory bass (candy apple red with heavy wear) so went to go look for a vid of that show for the fat bottom girls thread, but instead found this (also nicely prominent bassline with heavy flanging and/or envelope filter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnvmlGeCKk

Can't tell if a copy (can't seem to get a good pause of the headstock or bridge) but if it is it's one of the better ones.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Ken on December 08, 2021, 07:06:19 PM
So I saw a pic of Husker Du using a Victory bass (candy apple red with heavy wear) so went to go look for a vid of that show for the fat bottom girls thread, but instead found this (also nicely prominent bassline with heavy flanging and/or envelope filter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnvmlGeCKk

Can't tell if a copy (can't seem to get a good pause of the headstock or bridge) but if it is it's one of the better ones.

And Bob always with his Ibanez Flying V.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on December 21, 2021, 06:50:59 AM
A lo-z Les Paul Bass with David Bowie. Not sure who it is; Willie Weeks or Emir Ksasan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLcs4VrjZQ
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 21, 2021, 12:41:38 PM
Good catch.  Can barely see the thing.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on December 23, 2021, 05:32:28 PM
It's Emir Ksasan, Willie Weeks never wore a 'fro, even in the mid-seventies!

That is also the (Mike) 'garson band' backing Bowie in that vid - with inter alia David Sanborn (sax), Dennis Davis (dr), Carlos Alomar (guit), Earl Slick (guit), Pablo Rosario (perc) and Emir Ksasan on bass plus of course Mike Garson as musical director/keyboarder. There is a picture on twitter of the garson band (which when not backing Bowie gigged low-key with Luther Vandross singing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89pBOW2Gx8Q

and it pictures Ksasan in the middle with the bass planted to his feet, the Gibson neck and headstock visible.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Mn35gzwfeR4xDaD6m8aVBpJMXxY7-Ava3K6h86t3X8-dVK_5LcoVLKwobFZuDuzCG9KlGnu0fSFtrH9KEYMwH_c75uH7D2O8UMfX3A4HXA)

(left to right: Alomar, Davis, Garson, Ksasan, Rosario, Sanborn, Slick).

Unless I'm gravely mistaken, Bowie never had a white bassist touring with him again after he ditched Trevor Bolder. Herbie Flowers, Mark Plati, Tony Visconti and Tim Lefebvre (all of them white) played on some albums, but on tours it was Willie Weeks, Emire Ksasan, George Murray, Carmine Rojas and Gail Ann Dorsey, all of them black (wo)men (ok, Carmine probably only had a touch of black DNA in him). Tin Machine with Tony Sales was the only exception to the rule.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on December 24, 2021, 02:01:01 AM
Thank you Uwe for that extensive answer!  :toast:
I had more trouble identifying the bass player than the bass bas itself :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on June 23, 2022, 06:28:38 AM
Don't think we've seen Chuck being backed up by a LPB here yet. Also Johnny Rivers' fro is not to be outdone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9eNsgScgA
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Post by: uwe on June 23, 2022, 07:01:51 AM
For once, that is actually a reasonably tight performance from the ole non-rehearser!
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Post by: Basvarken on November 13, 2022, 04:02:52 AM
Last night was the annual “Night of the pop music” on Dutch tv.
Three hours with an eclectic choice of live performances.

One of the bands that came along was Fun Loving Criminals.
Featuring a five string Les Paul Bass.
You don’t see those often!

https://youtu.be/XxgifLwpqCo
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on November 24, 2022, 02:58:58 PM
A cute little girl, some huge talent and garishly yellow strings plus a Les Paul Junior Tribute at 08:28:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KG8iGNFJ_s

At this rate, she's gonna be fearsomely good and versatile once she is an adolescent. A Wunderkind. Unlike me.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: OldManC on November 25, 2022, 11:44:46 AM
I love that she comes across totally as a kid. I would be very surprised if that wasn't sincere (I've seen a few kid actors who sounded like 40 year olds when the camera wasn't on them). Her utter joy in nailing those lines was infectious and made me want to hit the woodshed. Judging by her variety and number of basses, she makes a perfect (honorary) Outposter.
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Post by: Pilgrim on November 25, 2022, 12:25:00 PM
Dang.  She's better than I am, that's for sure.  More power to her!
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on November 25, 2022, 02:16:39 PM
Lovely. And very talented.
But her dad is very pushy.
Which is almost always the case with very young kids being promoted like this on social media.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on November 25, 2022, 02:49:02 PM
Yup, there always is that ice skater mom element. It'll probably come to a head when she turns adolescent.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: slinkp on November 26, 2022, 01:48:37 PM
I have the same feelings: it's great and warming to see kids as good as her, or that awesome drummer Yoyoka, but the pushy parent aspect is troubling... Good analogy to athletes...

(http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1265736/parents1_medium.gif)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: 4stringer77 on December 01, 2022, 08:04:20 AM
And here's a slightly more mature woman playing with Dragonforce. No idea if she had a pushy Dad. Anyone here know what LP shaped bass that is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX875XBcfMY

Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: westen44 on December 01, 2022, 08:30:00 AM
And here's a slightly more mature woman playing with Dragonforce. No idea if she had a pushy Dad. Anyone here know what LP shaped bass that is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX875XBcfMY

I found out about this band by accident not long ago.  The lead guitarist had a video talking about something which I don't even remember now.  He barely even mentioned his band Dragonforce.  But that bassist is Alicia Vigil.  The bass is a Zemaitis A22MF.  She also has a Gibson Grabber. 
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on December 01, 2022, 10:03:33 AM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/68e69e22d361d9ca2dca926803b5631f/tumblr_prrnf6qkrs1rey868o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: TBird1958 on January 10, 2023, 12:39:11 PM


 I've always liked this song - Moreso now that I see a Les Paul bass.

https://youtu.be/7t-wSIIp7JE
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: morrow on January 10, 2023, 02:21:22 PM
Great live band.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on January 31, 2023, 01:33:44 PM
Before "Rock Me Amadeus" Falco turned to his Vienna rap, he was a proficient bassist with jazzy Austrian freaksters Drahdiwaberl - mostly with Fenders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCJsLNmffM

But here at 17:00 he returns to a Gibson Les Paul Standard (first run with still the holy immaculate three-point and not the later Warwick string holder clunker of a bridge) of all basses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqseW3ZItxA
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on August 22, 2023, 08:36:25 AM
The late great Allen Woody on a 5-string Les Paul Standard Bass


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBP8FnFOqak

Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: gearHed289 on August 23, 2023, 07:13:22 AM
That was killer! Putting the ZZ boys to shame.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: doombass on January 11, 2024, 01:26:18 PM
Duff McKagan and prototype LPB-3?. It looks like a Schaller 460 bridge instead of the 3-point. Also lacking the Flaming Cup headstock inlay. It has the Les Paul Standard silk screened logo. I've read somewhere it was a gift from Axl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no6Z9RZ-J8I&list=PLvvBSKSwr1TUiwhb9kDZOtLRVhGMJ2Og5&index=2

He probably still owns it. This more recent unbloated Duff image suggests that:

(https://i.imgur.com/C12UmVt.jpg)
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on January 11, 2024, 05:40:38 PM
Yup, I remember that. Didn't know it was a prototype. Likely active
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on February 19, 2024, 12:43:11 PM
My old band Superfloor is going to do a one-off reunion show later this year. We haven't played with each other for at least 10 years. While digging through an old hard drive, I came across video recordings that we made in 2008 in a bar called Loonies, Nijmegen. Our plan at the time was actually to put the entire concert on DVD. But in the end that never happened. The video quality just wasn't good enough and there was a phase problem with the audio. We put a few songs on YouTube at the time. But this version of You're So Cold was forgotten.
It's actually a shame, because looking back I think it's quite nicel 😉

I used my Gibson Les Paul Bass prototype on two songs that night. One of the very few gigs that I ever brought it with me on the road.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLd8hJypINA
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 02, 2024, 06:21:35 PM
After having been subjected to Burning Witch, I can’t help it, but I need some philosophical guidance, here from 10cc advising me that Life Is A Mine-Mine-Mine-Minestrone featuring Graham Gouldman with a first generation Les Paul Bass.

https://youtu.be/t2o-snHDVQA

Not all music needs to be suicidal.

Life is a minestrone
Served up with parmesan cheese
Death is a cold Lasagne
Suspended in deep freeze
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on March 03, 2024, 12:55:03 PM
Graham Gouldman with a first generation Les Paul Bass.

I don't know what it is. But it is not a Gibson Les Paul Bass.
Chrome pickups. Four (2x2) pot knob pattern. Bolt on maple(?) neck. Rectangular switch panel on upper bout.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 03, 2024, 07:15:58 PM
Yeah it looks different, likely something pre-lawsuit from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: Basvarken on March 04, 2024, 05:32:07 AM
Maybe it were just props provided by the tv show for the lip synced performances.
I also see a Pearl guitar.
Title: Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
Post by: uwe on March 04, 2024, 06:38:06 AM
Rob, you might be on to something, as usual the miserly Dutch are to blame. The vid I posted first is from Dutch TV show TopPop in 1975 where they obviously preferred to equip their English guests with no-name props!!!

At home, Graham Gouldmann would play his Ric with which he was more or less inseparable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7u6JaOR6kk

BTW, I can't believe the comment of the English moderator here at 03:21 about "the female part of the audience looking good - chewing gum" - bad old days indeed. :o