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morrow

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The light show butterfly Gibson .
« on: January 19, 2022, 07:44:27 AM »
This was up for auction yesterday . The legendary lost butterfly . Rob , you’ll have to pursue this for the next edition .

https://rulloauctionservices.hibid.com/lot/109846161/home-made-butterfly-bass-guitar--needs-work?cpage=2

a thing of terrible beauty
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2022, 05:13:03 PM »
That would fit nicely with a Daisy Rocks collection.
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2022, 06:51:43 PM »
It is indeed terrible. 
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2022, 09:31:44 PM »
"Needs work."  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I think what it needs is ...

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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2022, 11:24:31 PM »
Sold for $110.

Only way that's worth $110 is if there's $120 stuffed under the pickup. The extra $10 would be for the environmental hazard disposal fee.
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2022, 11:38:57 PM »
Amerikaner! Say no more.  :mrgreen:

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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2022, 06:01:41 AM »
I think there’s lights under those plexiglass panels like a Rickenbacker Lightshow . There’s an AC plug on the back of the bass .
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2022, 06:34:33 AM »
Course there is, so you can't even hide with it in the dark! And hence the title "light show butterfly ..." (I will not use the term "Gibson" in connection with this thing and insult generations of Kalamazoo, Nashville and Memphis luthiers. That minibucker is innocent!)

A contraption straight from the horrors of hell ...as  if Wishbass had offered a custom shop ...  8)
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2022, 07:01:04 AM »
Yeah saw it on Talkbass. The guy who posted it actually asked if it is a real Gibson...
Some people are so incredibly stupid.

I agree with Uwe.


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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2022, 04:29:04 AM »
   Nothing Gibson about it but cool as all get out! By the time found the auction link it was over, otherwise it would have come home with me.  :o 8)
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2022, 05:52:27 AM »
I'm mildly intrigued as to how it was built, what was the donor bass etc. How did they make the striped fretboard?

The power socket on the back takes it straight into 'f*** that!' territory. 110 volts into some DIY circuitry under a potentially brittle plastic cover? Not for me.
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2022, 06:14:48 AM »
A local Buy&Sell used to have a cheap looking thing hanging behind the cash register , with a bad hand painted Gibson logo on the headstock . I asked about it once and was told “it’s not for sale … it was a lesson”.
That butterfly bass was so unique the creator came up with his own Gibson logo .
I’d love to see it lit up too .
Oh it certainly cracks the ugly barrier . But there’s something about it …
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Re: The light show butterfly Gibson .
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2022, 06:24:15 AM »
When I lived in Edinburgh there was a chaotic junk shop that had some sort of plywood bolt-on Les Paul copy with a Gibson sticker on the headstock! The owner was a dodgy guy who wanted quite a lot of money for it, so no lesson had been learned there.


He did learn a different lesson though: https://news.stv.tv/east-central/shopkeeper-raped-pregnant-woman-then-offered-her-20
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