I didn't know Simon Gallop did! I've seen photos of him with that Eccleshall bass, and I found a video of him playing a Guild SFII, but that's it so far...
He never lets me have a minute of fun. Must everything be classic rock and hair metal all the time?
Not sure it still counts towards your hipster cred if your son left them with you when he moved out for school. :P
Not sure it still counts towards your hipster cred if your son left them with you when he moved out for school. :P
Keep in mind that this was when I was 24 and much dumber than I am now, BUT I had Steve Swallow's first electric bass, a 1962 Gibson eb-2. Over the years, he had customized the electronics and tried some weird prototype pickups and it was pretty far from original when I got it for $500. It was a great bass, though.
We were doing a show opening for the Boo Radleys and it was a packed house, very exciting. At the end, I threw the bass way up into the sky. As it came down a light caught my eye and it went right by my outstretched hand and sheared the headstock completely off. Our drummer was in the middle of knocking over his kit as well and people were screaming and cheering. The headstock could have easily been repaired, but I'm afraid I picked up the bass and destroyed it. Kindling.
Jazz history has never been one of my big passions, I'm afraid.
Well anyhow, Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots sure seems to like EB-2's according to what he says here:
https://twitter.com/stprobertdeleo/status/560317763760041984 (https://twitter.com/stprobertdeleo/status/560317763760041984)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8amCY5CEAAfv8k.jpg:large)
That does however not prove he used one during recordings in the 90's though.
I really hate it when you use my own arguments against me.
Herman's Hermits. That singer has some exciting teeth! I see the bassist has the strap mounted on the headstock. He also has quite an interesting left hand technique, with the thumb rooted in behind the E string. Because the bass is on such a sort strap, his left arm approaches from behind the bridge, forcing his wrist into an awkward-looking ninety degree turn. That can't be comfortable!
Tenpole Tudor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJbJAjM5Ho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJbJAjM5Ho
Who killed Bambi?
Dave is being ironic ..., the "mighty" gives it away ... 8)
its not impressionism until you can't recognize the subject matter.
its not impressionism until you can't recognize the subject matter.
"I worked with someone who considered him to be a role model ..."
Anybody who vocally admits to liking Grand Funk Railroad can't be a bad person.
Both bands are a bit of a lame '50s throwback really. I saw both clips on a BBC compilation show earlier today.
poser artschool side-project for privileged kids ala The Clash
Is that an EB-2 or a Rivoli, hard to catch it and the upper and lower horn look kind of weird?
[Ministry - Scarecrow]
Uwe gets busy with a videocam.
A bit of a detour, but I spotted a Les Paul Signature bass in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnejs-7EgdA
In my personal hell, this tune is playing on an endless loop. That way madness surely lies.
Also a wild Rivoli sighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fegotswzs
Both bands are a bit of a lame '50s throwback really. I saw both clips on a BBC compilation show earlier today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnz4DahuMec&feature=share
New to me....
I was crazy about The Jam when I was in my first class of high school (brugklas in Dutch). Didn't play any bass guitar yet at that age. But in hindsight I'm pretty sure it was the bass of Bruce Foxton that made me love The Jam so much. Just didn't know it back then.
That video that Chris posted once again shows that an EB-2 can be perfectly audible in the mix. Don't let anybody tell you it can't be done. ;-)
Sure, if you use the baritone switch ( sounds like Foxton did to me). Amp eq or eq pedals are usually not deep enough of a cut and to wide bandwidth besides to work well for the purpose of de-mudding and adding punch to a full mud bass sound.
A certain Canadian tech, and Youtube Celebrity, has got his mitts on an EB-2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI93QEGUdhA
Not as explosive as his Rickenbacker videos by any stretch, but clearly he doesn't know his way around Gibson basses. I see a poor old EB-2 that needs to go to a proper luthier for a neck reset, not a hack who earns his Youtube advert revenue by ranting away like a broken record.
Baritone switch was a stupid name anyway. It didn't change the pitch. Guild had a much better name: the Deep-Hard Tone Switch. Your choice. :mrgreen:
NewNOT Country alert!!! Three siblings and an EB-2, but - alas! - no cute nose wrinkling, a dying art obviously.
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Fixed it for you. :mrgreen:
Haha, I clicked the video before seeing this ^^ and thought: "Uh oh, what's Dave gonna say?".
Just because she couldn't wrinkle her nose ...
RE- the Band Perry
I worked crew for their show for their "hometown crowd" in Greeneville, TN a couple years ago. They're a faux set of sibling performers who didn't even bother TRYING to lip sync to the ProTools rig that was running through the PA. Milli Vanillli would have been embarrassed by how obviously fake they are. I have their first album which had some catchy songwriting and promise for potential to turn into a Taylor Swift-style pop crossover. They lack her talent and work ethic. Country? They're barely music.
It certainly wasn't a commercial move, they lost almost all their fans and stalled their career. But - much like Taylor Swift - they felt confined by their former Country Pop and switched to this "Euro Dance Pop" (for lack of a better word). It might have been a sincere move, perhaps that is the kind of music they actually listened to on the tour bus, but I'm not sure it was well-advised.
Personally, I don't know what possessed them to exchange a functioning, living rhythm section for phoned-in DJ beats heard a zillion times before and rape Kimberly's flawless, pure voice with auto-tune (as a style element, not to correct her pitch). Perhaps they wanted to sound more like Paramore, but they are nowhere as quirky with their new music, just lame.