Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)

[Basvarken]

Nice video that features a Grabber

[uwe]

Ah, so the Grabbers had the hardware corrosion problem of their Ripper siblings too - the pick guard is to blame.

[amptech]

Ah, so the Grabbers had the hardware corrosion problem of their Ripper siblings too - the pick guard is to blame.

Cleaned up mine a few years ago, a couple of pickguard screw heads just fell off...
A friend of mine have had it since, wonder how it smells when I get it back!

And those palm ripper bridge screws.... what a nice punky bass the Grabber is :-)

[uwe]

That Grabber bridge was functional in principle but as regards quality of hardware the worst "100-Dollar-bass" junk imaginable. No wonder it was replaced with a hipshot in the above vid.

"And those palm ripper bridge screws.... what a nice punky bass the Grabber is :-)"

Yup, for people who have porcupines as pets!

[amptech]

That Grabber bridge was functional in principle but as regards quality of hardware the worst "100-Dollar-bass" junk imaginable. No wonder it was replaced with a hipshot in the above vid

I might replace it with a bar bridge someday

[uwe]

Or the tiptastic two-point.

[doombass]

Can't recall this has popped up in the thread. Ebony Ripper:

[uwe]

And now for a vid without any erotic allure, just some kraut prog to grab ya!

[gearHed289]

Excellent! That Grabber sounds great.

[uwe]

You're probably the only person here with a penchant for Kraut prog rock! What's the term again ... weirdo! 

For some reason, Grabbers (and Rippers) had their 15 minutes of glory with Kraut progsters, here is Martin Hesse of Jane - another keyboard-heavy prog behemoth with a huge popularity in Germany in the mid-70ies though all critics hated them (just like Eloy) - strutting with a white Grabber in 1977. A very idiosyncratic way of both "wearing" the bass (way to the right or even to the side) and playing it (just behind the neck), unusual to see that with  a Grabber and it's huge body obviously intended to "hang in the middle".

[uwe]

Lest I forget: Francis Buchholz played one too for a while (Virgin Killer tour) - here a blurry pic of it at 4:12.



Here's a better shot of it, it was a natural fin.

[Basvarken]

Gibson fest with Blondie in 1978
A G3, S1 and a Les Paul. Plus Debby.
Lip synced but still cool.

[Basvarken]

Throwback thursday. Back to my first year in highschool, when Adam and the Ants were a big hit over here in the Netherlands.

[westen44]

Adam Ant achieved some solo success with "Goody Two Shoes" several years later in the U.S., but the video didn't have a Gibson bass in it. 

[Chris P.]

I was to lazy to check 32 pages to see of this one's there: