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

[slinkp]

Now I want to check out this documentary on them.  I remember Up With People from when I was younger, but just that it existed.  I don't remember anything about it.

Here's another fun documentary.  We used to go to this in the mid-'80s.  It was nuts.

It was indeed! I went to Action Park many times. Thankfully nobody I know got seriously injured there.

[gearHed289]

I have got to see that Action Park doc! I never heard of it until now. It looks amazing on several levels.

[Alanko]

Some live footage of Barclay James Harvest. Bassist Les Holroyd had a Gibson double neck for a lot of the band's '70s tenure. It appears to be quite an exotic instrument, with a Bigsby B5 on the guitar neck and possibly an EB-0F fuzz circuit board between tho two necks. At some point it gained a second complete set of controls on the bass side.

[uwe]

I was never a fan, but there was a time in the mid to late 70ies and 80ies when these guys ruled Germany. There was no getting away from them, they really latched on to the deutsche psyche. A bit of Pink Floydian/Moody Bluesy melancholy, Eagles/Supertramp type harmony and Hammond-heavy Krautrock? It was an unfashionable (they were hated and mocked by the critics), but seemingly magic recipe for them. From 1977 to 1990 they had eight subsequent albums in the German Top Twenty, seven of them in the Top Ten, four of those in the Top Five. No household without them. Bands like The Police and Dire Straits had a hard time surviving as their openers.

[Alanko]

Saying this in the nicest sense, but there is a certain prog rock stodginess in BJH that I could see being popular in Germany? They really lean into the warm bloat of string synths, long songs, guitar solos etc, but they are fundamentally playing songs rather than weird proggy compositions with exotic time signatures or weird harmonies. All a bit like Grobschnitt.

[uwe]

"Prog Rock stodginess" sums BJH up perfectly and of course that found an appreciative audience in Germany. We like some - however pretentious - art & craft to go with our rock and shake our heads in disbelief at something like the New York Dolls or Iggy & The Stooges. Das ist keine Kunst.

You know Grobschnitt, je suis impressed, tartan boy!

[saltymonkey]

[Dave W]

Proof that an EB-1 is perfectly suitable for a bass solo!

Larry passed this past January, he was the last of that group (Larry and Lorrie Collins, Joe and Rose Lee Maphis).

[uwe]

And now for something completely different ... - but with an EB-3 (or -0?) ...



And if you wonder where the Tiny Tim trademark falsetto went, just wait until 01:15, priceless!

He did that Elvis baritone well.

[Dave W]

And now for something completely different ... - but with an EB-3 (or -0?) ...



And if you wonder where the Tiny Tim trademark falsetto went, just wait until 01:15, priceless!

He did that Elvis baritone well.

No Gibson basses, but for the best example of his regular and falsetto voices in the same song, you can't top this. Carson's reaction at the end is priceless.

[uwe]

Did he have issues?

[Dave W]

Did he have issues?

Is the pope Argentinian?

[uwe]

Fast backward to 1962 and Margaret Thatcher's favorite pop tune featuring one of my countrymen named Heinz (but living in England at the time) on an EB-0:



Heinz would move on to guitar, vocals and greater things of course with his 1963 Top Five hit "Just Like Eddie" on which - you guessed this - a then teenage lead guitarist who would go on ... ah, you know the rest.

No live or even just mimed footage of Heinz and that guitarist exists, but in the film Telstar: The Joe Meek Story the character playing the lead guitar(ist) goes by the rare name of Ritchie Blackmore, sound is the original recording:





You knew where this was gonna end.

[ilan]

You knew where this was gonna end.

Wow, Ritchie had the psycho look in his eyes even at 17.

Isn't that an Epi Rivoli, with the perimeter burst?

[ilan]

While on the subject of Gibson basses and a young soon-to-be-famous guitarist, here's a nice EB-2N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-XepQFtOQg&list=PLUCyP-fDpj7TNPq-DFfAangVC1zVMfny6