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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Barklessdog on November 22, 2008, 05:46:07 AM

Title: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Barklessdog on November 22, 2008, 05:46:07 AM: Hearing & seeing is believing so lets start a video thread of demos of what Gibson basses sound & look like-

(None by me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8njW3ot139w

Modern Gibson Tbird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHizHEm4p7E&feature=related
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: n!k on November 22, 2008, 01:42:40 PM: http://www.youtube.com/v/B-u9VS5hYwk&hl=en&fs=1&dmt=16

I really like this one. He nails the part and the T-bird sounds so bouncy and stout at the same time.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: ilan on November 22, 2008, 02:23:21 PM: Good thread. Especially for someone like me who doesn't own a Gibson bass (two guitars though...) and wants to learn.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: slinkp on November 22, 2008, 04:15:44 PM: Me'shell proves gibsons aren't just for rock...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GETyb2KaW4c
I guess those active les pauls weren't too popular but damn it sounded good in her hands.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: barend on November 23, 2008, 03:54:34 AM: Damn those Les Paul basses sound good (especially in the first clip). These basses never interested me, but now I have some serious GAS. Hope it blows over.

This one is my favourite featuring the Ripper:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on November 23, 2008, 04:28:19 AM: Mississippi Queen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFUUtGVsEOE

...with the ol' Politician riff at The End!
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Rocker949 on November 23, 2008, 08:11:00 AM: I can never get enough of Mississippi Queen.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: bobyoung on November 24, 2008, 09:30:59 AM: Quote from: ilan on November 22, 2008, 02:23:21 PM
Good thread. Especially for someone like me who doesn't own a Gibson bass (two guitars though...) and wants to learn.

Grab a new Thunderbird ilan, you'll never regret it. Nice slim Jazz-like necks and have plenty of presence, I use chromes with mine and it still roars.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: barend on November 25, 2008, 03:06:34 AM: Most of you have seen this clip of course but it was this clip and song which started my love for the EB3 bass and Jack Bruces playing. Only two years ago. For me that is the ultimate EB3 sound: no mud, clear and fuzzy. Also like his hat.
Jack Bruce qui joue la basse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf2tJkkYpmg
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: uwe on November 25, 2008, 05:06:50 AM: More EB-3 with Jimmy Lea (notice the rhyme?):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYoNLzvUjfY

The track is obviously dubbed - it's the studio version (and Janis has been patched in to, but only visually, the music is all Slade), but the footage you see seems to be a rare live version of the song I've never heard the audio to. Then again: It might just be Good Bye T'Jane where Lea plays the high melody too.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: barend on November 27, 2008, 02:23:00 AM: the hottest band in the world...with a Grabber...great song!
also a great bass sound...check the part at 2:30...rock and roll!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfagvcwjLyE
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: uwe on November 27, 2008, 03:24:33 AM: With all his subsequent basses he always tried to perfect that sound sound with the overdriven midrange frequencies.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Basvarken on November 27, 2008, 09:02:01 AM: Cry Of Love bass player Robert Kearns with his Triumph through two Ampeg SVTs has the best bass sound I've ever heard.

Here's a two part video of a live Bootleg that I've uploaded:

part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16xMz-RVLU&fmt=18

part2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhPJf73t_fQ&fmt=18
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: barend on November 28, 2008, 02:30:56 AM: thanks for that videos!
too bad the bass sound is a bit unclear and too far away.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Barklessdog on December 01, 2008, 11:12:55 AM: I always liked this RD clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFd3Fbfr_8
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Barklessdog on December 01, 2008, 11:18:02 AM: SG Money Bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guR2mULtaQA
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: Barklessdog on December 01, 2008, 11:21:35 AM: JC on a Les paul Signiture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBks7V3SzJo&feature=related

JC on his EPI JC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su9A2EMy4_w&feature=related

Someone else on a JC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9K4LQ2Nh94&feature=related

I prefer the original from these clips but the qualities can't be compared recording wise.
Title: Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
Post by: slinkp on December 03, 2008, 08:37:48 AM: Quote from: Barklessdog on December 01, 2008, 11:12:55 AM
I always liked this RD clip

Cool! That guy is doing the Entwistle right-hand technique! (One of them, anyway.) I don't see too many people besides me trying that.

Speaking of which... I haven't turned up any live Who vids from the brief Thunderbird period (roughly 1972 I think) but here's a nice Fenderbird bit... with Quadrophenia backing tapes galore... and Keith on vocals :-]
Some of the least trebly live Entwistle tone I've heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9CwImPmAc

I like those Jack C basses too.