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

[uwe]

Don't know if this has been previously posted here. Alan Lancaster and an early EB-0 with added bridge pickup:

Thanks Doomie, now that is a rare one! I've never seen Alan 'Nuff' Lancaster with a Gibson bass before!

[Basvarken]

Don't let the P-bass in the first seconds of the video fool you.
Bass player chose the EB-0 over the P to record this song.

[Alanko]

Thanks Doomie, now that is a rare one! I've never seen Alan 'Nuff' Lancaster with a Gibson bass before!

I was just watching a ratty copy of this video on YouTube and was poised to post it here. At a guess none of the instruments belonged to Quo? Maybe their own guitars were en route to a gig, so they borrowed this stuff? I've never seen Rick with that boggo Norlin SG and the white Telecaster looks far too clean to be a Quo guitar.

[uwe]

Quo didn't always play their trademark battered Telecasters [Rossi has often moaned that the typical Quo sound has less to do with the Telecasters and more how he and Rick play(ed)] and Nuff had a liking for less than long scale basses (his legendary Fender Mustang and the later Travis Beans/Kramers, which were medium scale) so the Gibbie might have fitted right in. But I don't rule out that they were "TV studio loaned" either. That happened quite often in the 70ies.

[westen44]

A good job of trying as much as possible to match the video to the audio.

Uh-oh.  I just noticed that Eric Clapton now says he has zero tolerance for the way he played on this song.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/eric-clapton-interview-blues-robert-johnson

[Alanko]

Can EB2 basses go in here?

Polish prog rockers SBB, with Józef Skrzek on bass. He unleashes a fairly abstract and noisy solo on an EB2 from 10:30 onwards.

[uwe]

The beginnings of Grunge, no doubt. Do a power chord, move it chromatically up and down the instrument - voilà music!

[uwe]

[gearHed289]

Can EB2 basses go in here?

Polish prog rockers SBB, with Józef Skrzek on bass. He unleashes a fairly abstract and noisy solo on an EB2 from 10:30 onwards.

Nice vibrato. Audiences had a lot more patience in the olden days.

[Granny Gremlin]

I just wanna know how in heck he got an EB2 from behind the iron curtain.

[uwe]

FACT: My Bicentennial is from the GDR! The guy bought it in the 70ies in an East Berlin music store where you could by Western instruments for obscene amounts of money. The guy liked the TBird logo in US of A colors especially.

[Granny Gremlin]

Interesting.

Even as late as the 2000s, it wasn't easy getting actual Gibsons in Poland.

[4stringer77]

Brian Jones likes these guys.



I searched for more of their stuff after hearing this.

[4stringer77]

No shortage of EB-2 videos. Gold is over $1,900 an ounce so silence must be too.

[doombass]

Embedding does'nt seem to work at the moment so click the link:



Iggy Pop and early EB-0.