Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[Stjofön Big]

Agree with the last speaker!

[Basvarken]

From Spain in 1966

I think that's a Rivoli

[Dave W]

Not the best lip sync job. 

That song was so big toward the end of my freshman year.

[patman]

I thought that song was really cool...it still sounds good to me

[4stringer77]

These Finnish guys are singing in English too. Don't think it helped them get as much international success as Los Bravos but they're nowhere near as poppy either.

[uwe]

Not the best lip sync job. 

That song was so big toward the end of my freshman year.

I only have awful memories of this song. Or what was done to it some 11 years later. Horrible enough to be either German or - sorry, Rob! - Dutch, but in this case the French are to blame. Even it you turn the sound off, the video remains horrible for its (non-existent) choreography. Come back Britney, all might not be forgiven, but certainly forgotten.

[Alanko]

Nice to see Wigwam up there. Not sure what lineup that is, but I do like the Fairyport LP. My illicit copy has a bonus track tacked on that has the band working their way through every possible alternate voicing of Sibelius's Finlandia, before striding into their own composition 'Losing Hold'. I think its a live recording, or at least a taped rehearsal. The Hammond organ is right on the edge of overdrive, and the leslie speakers are captured in stereo. The bass sounds a bit thin, but it could be an EB-3!

[Basvarken]

I only have awful memories of this song.

I love the bra that's not there.

[patman]

It's the only redeeming feature.

[Rob]

I only have awful memories of this song. Or what was done to it some 11 years later. Horrible enough to be either German or - sorry, Rob! - Dutch, but in this case the French are to blame. Even it you turn the sound off, the video remains horrible for its (non-existent) choreography. Come back Britney, all might not be forgiven, but certainly forgotten.

It was big in her Freshman year too!
I had always thought Los Bravos sang phonetically like the girls in Sergio Mendez act.  And what the hell is that guy doing ?  Filling in for Archie Bell and the Drells?
Still better than

[Dave W]

Yes, Los Bravos did sing phonetically. So did the Dutch invasion bands a few years later (Tee Set, Shocking Blue, George Baker Selection).

Getting off topic here, but when it comes to bad choreography, you just can't beat the Finnish duo Armi ja Danny. Poor Armi, died of alcoholism before becoming famous on YT.

[uwe]

My eyes!!! What have I started!!! Matthew 5:29 (= Corman 2:37): 

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."

[Basvarken]

Nothing beats Tommy Seebach!




Yes there's a Gibson bass, this thread is saved!

[uwe]

Can we have more vids with scantily dressed squaws please? They're an art form of their own and we have strayed in threads for lesser things ...



I give Herr Seebach's bassist credit for a good Ripper sound and some classic 70ies disco bass runs. The Orlando Riva Sound bassist gets an honorary mention for inspirational guidance on how ALL Jazz Basses should really be finished. 

Speaking of giving credit, as the the above vid from 1979 shows, Cher was always a sartorial trendsetter, this is her six years earlier riding both a horse and Native American chieftess style. And - flash thought! - it just occurs to me how bass playing and female clothing really have one principle in common: It's no so much where you put something, but where you leave something out. 

[uwe]

All subjects in the LBO merge eventually, difficult to discern what is what sometimes is.





Unless they end with Ritchie Blackmore, of course. But wait, something is amiss ..., shouldn't this be in the big-bosom(ed) fat bottom(ed) girls thread? I'm sorry, der Holländer/(f)lying Dutchman confused me again and led me astray ...