The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Basvarken on July 16, 2018, 12:32:27 AM
-
I was searching for this thread to post a video that featured a Gibson RD Artist bass
But it looks like there isn't one. So I'm starting this one here.
Mick Hawksworth with Alvin Lee's Ten Years Later (not after)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88INE9Pt1Y
-
RD's have been featured in the Fat-Bottom Girls video thread:
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=6622.msg118345#msg118345 (http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=6622.msg118345#msg118345)
Nothing wrong with its own dedicated thread though.
-
Might be a bit lonely though... :mrgreen:
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDs4JpIIBk
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAhJmbAgCgE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0XHVgjwU3o
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQFB0UYdDdY
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGc8jL4dzao
-
How could you have forgotten this, Rob?!!! >:(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQoxqI6n9p8
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiip-aAOjtE
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Dp6wjzaMc
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDs4JpIIBk
My goodness, Ellen Foley did look scary back then with her anorexic panda bear image! :o
-
My goodness, Ellen Foley did look scary back then with her anorexic panda bear image! :o
A number of us looked scary then and even scarier now.
-
I thought she was kinda cute (not sexy, not beautiful, just rock chick cute), Manga image before Mangas became popular. But you're right, she also had that heroin look to her.
To a lot of people, her voice was an acquired taste too, but she was part of the early Meat Loaf sound. Karla DeVito's vocals (her successor with Meat Loaf) weren't perhaps quite as an acquired taste, I liked her solo album at the time as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT_WvyAdP2g
And Ellen looks healthier these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hpBiVrTMs
-
She may look a bit healthier. But she sounds horrible with that out of control vibrato that has become two notes.
-
Ok, I take it that you are not a fan of Heidi Stern (aka Jennifer Rush) then either. :mrgreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiFre0FK-s0
To be fair, her vibrato is more controlled though if somewhat ubiquitous.
-
Not a fan is putting it mildly 😄
-
Not fair! :) She made coffee/was a secretary at the (then) CBS Studios in Frankfurt in the early 80ies until someone let her go near a microphone. Hard working girl.
But I tired of her voice quickly too and can even today only hear it in small doses.
-
Not fair! :) She made coffee/was a secretary at the (then) CBS Studios in Frankfurt in the early 80ies until someone let her go near a microphone. Hard working girl.
I never tasted her coffee so I cannot judge her by that, and I'm not a fan of her music.
But she does have something going on, everytime I hear her sing that song I'm taken back to fond 80's memories.
I did hear that whole album in a stretch once (as a grown up) and that was not too pleasant.
-
Anyone know what this finish is?
Lava burst? Cracked lava?
Custom job? Limited edition for Japanese market perhaps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDor5hfiLc
-
I saw a picture of one of those a couple months back. It was on a Japanese dealer site, but can't remember which one.
-
Probably at Mikki Gakki.
Here's what they wrote about this bass when I asked them:
"This model is the prototype model before commercialization.
It is one of the samples made as a sample, only this one has been on the market.".
-
Ah, ok. It was the one and same bass then. I thought at the time it was a Japan special run.
-
From the Deepest End by Gov't MUle.
There's Dave Schools on the RD Artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq9N1TWbY44
-
That's a nice burst there too.
-
Anyone post Suicidal Tendencies yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ
And I am remiss for not including local now Geffen-signed, boys Metz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p5xY1sTMtc
-
I saw an RD Artist in a Toronto shop for a really good price . It was in great condition , but it was just too heavy .
It weighed a ton .
I regret not buying it now .
-
Not just heavy but also very long. They are a bass for large people. Makes me look like a twink when I wear it. That Metz bassplayer is taller then he looks holding that thing. Somehow Thunderbirds don't have quite the same effect.
-
Not just heavy but also very long. They are a bass for large people. Makes me look like a twink when I wear it. That Metz bassplayer is taller then he looks holding that thing. Somehow Thunderbirds don't have quite the same effect.
I love seeing pictures of myself as a skinny 14 year old with a Grabber :)
-
Had mine 41 years now... :mrgreen:
-
Italian band Messa which I just discovered earlier tonight. I wasn't expecting to see an RD, though.
https://youtu.be/6xoqgD6hVQ8
-
Indie Metal.
-
Indie Metal.
It's definitely indie metal. Just in the last few minutes I've been reading about the band and watching some more of their videos. In all honesty, I don't much like the approach of that bassist. The sound he gets, especially on his new unknown bass, sounds as much like rhythm guitar as bass. Interestingly enough, the lead singer played bass for some bands before she started singing for that one. I'd like to hear her play bass. I bet that would be interesting. She seems to be very deep into music, for the sake of music itself and not for other people. I like her and also that lead guitarist. Some of their songs have a definite Middle Eastern sound. That makes them even more indie. I might add that I don't really mean to be critical of the bassist. He is definitely beyond me. Plus, there is nothing he is doing that is wrong. It's just I've always had a thing about wanting to distance the sound of a bass from a rhythm guitar. This goes back to my teenage days and I haven't changed on that.
Update
Finding this info was not easy. and maybe not too important. But this topic is about the RD. What I found out is that bassist for Messa isn't playing his RD much in public because it's his favorite bass and he doesn't want anything to happen to it. That's why in the concert videos I kept seeing him play something else which I'm pretty sure is a Kramer 8 string. I guess he doesn't care if that got damaged in public, and I wouldn't, either. But the 1978 Gibson RD Artist, that's another story.
-
Dave Schools on a Gibson RD Artist.
From the Gov't Mule Live DVD The Deepest End
https://youtu.be/9ganwvg6wR4?si=xRaXNOrKOU3hmrhd&t=274
-
A cheerful ditty from Burning Witch, featuring some RD action from bassist G. Stuart Dahlquist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQKpq4qXfU
-
Dave Schools on a Gibson RD Artist.
From the Gov't Mule Live DVD The Deepest End
https://youtu.be/9ganwvg6wR4?si=xRaXNOrKOU3hmrhd&t=274
Wow! That kicked ass. Bass and player sound incredible.
-
Yeah it really does sound great.
The entire dvd is highly recommendedby the way
-
A cheerful ditty from Burning Witch, featuring some RD action from bassist G. Stuart Dahlquist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQKpq4qXfU
Of medical interest only, but they do take their antidepressants on a regular and monitored basis?