Well, as your Queen I 'm somewhat predictable - you know I love Thunderbirds above all. I added it's endearing ugly/way cool sister the RD as a second.
However, as I age disgracefully and realize I won't be prancing around in a miniskirt onstage forever I think one each of these would be very nice.
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/yummy_zpslkg0xdeb.jpg)
...but my real answer would be this one-off fretless Super 400 bass.
(http://elderly.com/items/images/55U/55U-3166_front.jpg)
What, no WRC clown bass? :P
Admittedly, the offset fretmarkers on the IV/V are kinda cool.
Silly Purple Clown Bass, SPCB, let's get those references right, please, this forum is committed to scientific accuracy, Dave! I left it out because there is no point in naming a bass everybody else on earth refuses to own/be seen with!
As 80ies designs go, I liked it!!! Steel Panther would pay me a king's ransom for it.
I dig the Reverse T Bird and the EB-1....then the NR Bird.....and the explorer bass.....but they NEVER made a Futura...then I like the original 1959 Ebo basses too....
I'll take a short scale SG-body like the EB-0.
Simple, light, well proportioned. You see it and you KNOW it's a Gibson (unless it's a spinoff Epi.)
It's probably not as outright pretty as Justin Hayward's 1963 cherry red 335 guitar, http://justinhaywardguitar.com/ but it says Gibson.
Then you get into how colors affect the bass. I think an all black RD is amazingly beautiful, just as I think an all black Victory is gorgeous. I think natural finish Bass IVs are beautiful but the painted ones are hideous. Go figure, and I have not Italian in me...
I totally get that! Agreed on the IV, and conversely, a black RD looks killer, as you said, but I'd have zero interest in a natural one.
Yes, I know it's the SPCB, but (1) as you have pointed out before, it's really royal blue and (2) you have a 5-string red version.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG00308-20100916-1228.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG00311-20100916-1231.jpg)
I'm pleased that I'm not the only one who voted for the doublecut Junior shape original EB-0. My other vote was for the SG/EB shape. Both in heritage cherry, of course.
Huh, so far that doesn't even have a vote?! That is option 14, not 4!!! Did you miscast your vote?
I am surprised how little votes the SG devil horn shape has drawn, when we last had a poll like this some years ago that shape came out second after the TB (both Rev and Non-Rev). Where have all the SG-shape EBlers gone?
Much like the Wehrmacht, that design would have conquered the world if they had only let it!
a warm spot for the original EBO (although Hamer did them better :)
Hey, Uwe, that's a fantastic painting of EP and the Girl from the Lapland country. Is there anywhere else on the net where I can find it?http://www.markkulaakso.com/galleria2004-06.php
http://www.markkulaakso.com/galleria2004-06.php
I would like to add this -
(http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c9etXt5S1qaqr3zo3_1280.jpg)
Well, as your Queen I 'm somewhat predictable - you know I love Thunderbirds above all. I added it's endearing ugly/way cool sister the RD as a second.
However, as I age disgracefully and realize I won't be prancing around in a miniskirt onstage forever I think one each of these would be very nice.
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/yummy_zpslkg0xdeb.jpg)
Much appreciated, Ilan. ;)
Great choice! And I agree. I'd love to pick one up.
Nah, that would be too Fendery.