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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Dave W on November 18, 2008, 05:13:39 PM

Title: Wikipedia says...
Post by: Dave W on November 18, 2008, 05:13:39 PM
If it's on Wikipedia, you know it must be true.  :rolleyes:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Explorer:

Epiphone also produced an Explorer Bass (there has never been a Gibson Explorer Bass), with a set neck...

All right, you Explorer owners, fess up.  ;)



Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: pamlicojack on November 18, 2008, 06:02:12 PM
Can't anyone edit Wikipedia?  I could go in there and write just about anything right...?
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: Freuds_Cat on November 18, 2008, 09:54:34 PM
If its on the internet then it must be true  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: Dave W on November 18, 2008, 10:36:09 PM
Can't anyone edit Wikipedia?  I could go in there and write just about anything right...?

A couple of months ago, the Wikipedia entry on the "brown note" was temporaily edited to claim that a certain German bassist/Gibson collector had discovered how to produce it.

Right, Chris?  8)
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: OldManC on November 18, 2008, 11:04:29 PM
Retards... Someone aughtta fix that.
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: OldManC on November 19, 2008, 11:43:35 AM
If it's on Wikipedia, you know it must be true.  :rolleyes:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Explorer:

Epiphone also produced an Explorer Bass (there has never been a Gibson Explorer Bass), with a set neck...


Doesn't say that anymore...  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: Dave W on November 19, 2008, 04:41:25 PM
Doesn't say that anymore...  :mrgreen:

there has never been a Gibson Explorer Bass except for the hundreds of 32" scale models sold in the 1980s, including one model that featured a futuristic piezo pickup in place of the traditional pickups found on the other models

BWAHAHAHAHA! Good work, George!
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: TBird1958 on November 19, 2008, 07:36:49 PM


George,

 Thanks for a good laugh while I was at work!   :toast:
Title: Re: Wikipedia says...
Post by: Freuds_Cat on November 19, 2008, 10:21:37 PM
"with a set neck, unlike the bolted-neck construction used in the Epiphone version of the Gibson Thunderbird bass."

Doh! :mrgreen:  Should read "with a set neck, just like the 34" fitted neck on the Epiphone Explorer bass".