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

[uwe]

Jance Garfat (who died in a motorcycle accident in 2006) played his EB-3 (I believe it was even an EB-3L) for a long Time with Hook (which I loved and love),



by the time they turned disco/country-pop/white soul he played an Ovation Magnum.

He joined Dr Hook for their second album "Sloppy Seconds" (staying with them until they dissolved in the late 80ies) and his click bass sound was all over it - the first time I actually registered a bass as something audible (Nancy Sinatra's These Boot Are Made For Walking excepted), it was this track here (and back then  - I was 12 - I actually thought it was "drums" when a friend playing the record to me asked me what instrument that was playing the bass intro lick ):



I still tend to play this lick to this day when entering a major chord  - though I'm these days not sure whether Ray Sawyer (the person most people perceive to be "Dr Hook" and the main vocalist when he was in fact neither) rather than Jance might have played it on the album version too. Here Jance plays acoustic guitar to it for some inexplicable reason - and I've never heard/seen Sawyer play bass before though he obviously seems to know what he's doing:

[Granny Gremlin]

Never ceases to amaze me the things you are or are not into; this one I wouldna have guessed. I dunno how you ever thought that was drums tho. 

[westen44]

Rinus Gerritsen playing a 1960 Gibson EB-0 in a 1975 promo video for the Golden Earring "To the Hilt" album.  I don't know what he was actually playing on the album, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't this bass, though. 

[Basvarken]

He brought it along at the book release party in 2016

[westen44]

He used to have a site where he talked about what basses he played on each album.  I don't remember him mentioning that bass.  I was surprised to see it in that promo video.  It looks cool, though.  BTW, I just ran across this interview.  But since it's in Dutch, I can't understand most of it--just bits and pieces. 

[Ken]

He brought it along at the book release party in 2016

Pretty good photo for a caption contest.

[Rob]

Sure is!
"Rob is pointing out the ding neat the strap button."

[Basvarken]

He used to have a site where he talked about what basses he played on each album.  I don't remember him mentioning that bass.  I was surprised to see it in that promo video.  It looks cool, though.  BTW, I just ran across this interview.  But since it's in Dutch, I can't understand most of it--just bits and pieces. 

Very nice. Enjoyed watching that. Rinus can talk for hours. He is full of rock n roll anecdotes. But always in a very down to earth humoristic way.

[westen44]

Very nice. Enjoyed watching that. Rinus can talk for hours. He is full of rock n roll anecdotes. But always in a very down to earth humoristic way.

Yes, definitely an enjoyable interview even though there was much I couldn't understand.  I'm sure I could get more out of it if I watched it a second time. 

[Chris P.]

Mr. Basvarken: cool vid of Stereophonics. I saw 'm live a lot, but never with this bass. I always liked Richard Jones' playing.

[uwe]

Never ceases to amaze me the things you are or are not into; this one I wouldna have guessed. I dunno how you ever thought that was drums tho.

Je suis eclectic, Jake, didn't you know that?! Or as my wife puts it "wantonly indiscriminate to shameless in your mishmash of musical tastes". Her pet theory is that I only do it to escape any kind of compartmentalization and to confound people.  I certainly bring all Amazon algorithms to their limits. They never know what to make of me. To this day, I buy some CDs just because I like the "cover" art.

There is not a single song/form of music I used to like as a 14-year-old that I don't still like today. Over the decades, other music has entered my vast taste vaults as well, but never via displacing music I already liked before. It just gets more and more - diverse and in quantity.

About 20% of my CD purchases (I disdain other forms of media, for quality of sound CDs are still the benchmark among widely available media forms) cover bands I don't even like (knowing that before the purchase), I buy them for educational and analytical purposes. Another 30% are sheer curiosity and knee jerk impulse buys.

I'm as much a music scientist and anthropologist as I am emotionally attached to some music. Listening to music can both be a cerebral exercise and an emotional experience for me. Some bands can even do both.

[uwe]

Aussies. With an EB-3 and a backing vocalist.



Sometime in the future he would meet up with these two brothers here ...

[Highlander]

Some nice shots of Tiran Porter playing a slot-head EB3L in this... fairly certain that bits of this have been posted but not sure if whole show...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBLZV1Rf1s&ab_channel=RedPlanetRock

[Granny Gremlin]

Je suis eclectic, Jake, didn't you know that?! Or as my wife puts it "wantonly indiscriminate to shameless in your mishmash of musical tastes". Her pet theory is that I only do it to escape any kind of compartmentalization and to confound people.  I certainly bring all Amazon algorithms to their limits. They never know what to make of me. To this day, I buy some CDs just because I like the "cover" art.

There is not a single song/form of music I used to like as a 14-year-old that I don't still like today. Over the decades, other music has entered my vast taste vaults as well, but never via displacing music I already liked before. It just gets more and more - diverse and in quantity.

About 20% of my CD purchases (I disdain other forms of media, for quality of sound CDs are still the benchmark among widely available media forms) cover bands I don't even like (knowing that before the purchase), I buy them for educational and analytical purposes. Another 30% are sheer curiosity and knee jerk impulse buys.

I'm as much a music scientist and anthropologist as I am emotionally attached to some music. Listening to music can both be a cerebral exercise and an emotional experience for me. Some bands can even do both.

Your eclecticism is one of the things I enjoy about you.

The algorithms all seem to think I am a woman, so I'm confusing them too.  Frankly I don't think they're too smart; if they got a person pegged, then, well:

[D.M.N.]

Shameless self-promotion, I used my '62 EB-3 for my band's new music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-rDjhR1q2c&ab_channel=Hair