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

[pjm]

Dee on the EB3

[amptech]

I think most people did (including me), Jack Bruce albums were cultish even in the early 70ies.

That album got me hooked on bass. I heard it before I heard Cream, thought he was a solo artist! In Norway before the internet, we knew nuthin'!

[uwe]

Dee on the EB3

What a great band that original line up was.

[exiledarchangel]

From the comments:

"From the very depths of hell." So they are from Newcastle, then.?

[uwe]

Compared to some stuff you hear today, this is still reasonably melodic. All might not be forgotten Cronos, Mantas &, uhum, Abaddon, but it is most certainly forgiven.

[Basvarken]

I remember when their first album was released I thought it was the most stupid band I had ever heard. About a year later it had become a whole new genre! 😂

[Big_Stu]

They look like John Birch mini humbuckers, I just couldn't see the bajillion pole pieces that JB pickups tend to have. It could be down to image degradation or the film it was originally captured on.

Slade had a close working relationship with John Birch, so I wouldn't be surprised if the bass made multiple trips to him. When the bass was refinished white it also lost the mudbucker and gained a bigger batwing pickguard. After the mods the bass was closer to the custom basses John Birch built for Jim, so maybe Jim requested the mudbucker be removed and it was the refinish that was above and beyond the work requested.

It's a John Birch "Superflux" pickup. It only has single row of nine poles. They were John's attempts at a "blade" style pickup. They were very overwound and had a lot of range. It also meant that they could be used in guitar or bass, so Noddy Holder has one too in his Telecaster neck position.
This is my Tele with one in it.



The refinish of that bass happened a couple of years after the above video. I met and knew John after he built me a bass and he told me that the mudbucker was disconnected. Jim mentioned in passing to John he was "thinking" of getting a white bass. The next time his bass went in for a set-up John took his cue to refinish and restyle it. The mudbucker was removed which made no difference to the sound since it didn't work anyway.
Jim was not a happy lad, livid in fact, but he didn't have it for long. It went back into John Birch's workshop over Xmas of '75 and the place was broken into over the holidays, the bass was stolen and never seen again. It's out there somewhere.

[Dave W]

Amplified Heat from Austin, Texas. The Ortiz brothers. I saw them about 2004-2005 in Texas but had forgotten about them until seeing this posted elsewhere.

[Grog]

I just bought the Paul Rodgers Free Spirit CD. It also came with a DVD. I didn't watch the entire DVD, but a modern SG bass was used for all of the songs that I did see. Here is what looks to be a cell phone recording of the same performance..................

[uwe]

That's a good album, even though they have "Bad Company'fied" the ole Free chestnuts a little.

[uwe]

The formidable Herr John Glascock with Carmen (in better picture and sound quality than ever before), demonstrating that an EB-3 need not sound muddy at all.



Also proof that sometimes, just sometimes the bassist gets the pretty girl in the band. Angela Allen (sister of the guitarist David Clark Allen and co-lead singer, keyboard player plus flamenco dancer in Carmen) and John were an item.

[Barklessdog]

Early Devo bassist used Gibson EB and butchered Ripper?

[Dave W]

Early Devo bassist used Gibson EB and butchered Ripper?

Jerry Casale is still Devo's only bassist after 45 years. Some of the time he only played keyboard bass, e.g. on Freedom of Choice.

[Dave W]

The Barbarians, of "Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl" fame. Early banjo tuner EB-2.

[4stringer77]

Ronnie James Dio's basses will up on the option block. Interesting EB-0 with two jazz pickups added. Glad he left the EB-1 alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=83&v=d3aaeQMySlc