The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Aussie Mark on September 16, 2009, 04:05:51 PM
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;D
(http://treeofknowledge.org/markphotos/gibsonebl9.jpg)
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VINTAGE-1971-GIBSON-EB-OL-BASS-GUITAR-W-LONG-SCALE-NECK_W0QQitemZ310168694442QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item48377eaeaa&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
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Simple solutions for simple minds. ;) As usual, whoever did it never anticipated the vintage market.
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Change the split P to black and it's already better. The bass is in a good condition.
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I think the Badass is far more offensive than the pickup - you could always replace the "P" with a second Muddie...
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I cannot believe how someone could do something as atrocious to an EB-0L, these basses deserve to be untouched or restored to their original look! >:( :-\ :rolleyes: :o :o :o
Regarding restoration to original look, choice of tasteful, not too garish refin is of course paramount, take advice from your local drag queen/style icon/model train enthusiast/Afrika Korps veteran on that:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/gibsonbulletbass002.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/gibsonbulletbass003.jpg)
Evidence of acts of - sigh! - US type lack of gun control violence and vandalism have to be removed, yet commemorated at the same time:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/ebo.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/bullet.jpg)
Basses with more than one pup are really, really silly, you know that.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2333.jpg)
And you don't just stick on some eighties bridge either that almost falls off the butt of this long scale bass with a guitar body,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/gibsonbulletbass005.jpg)
as there is nothing inherently wrong with the tried and trusted two point tiltomatic, which follows the best tradition of durable Italian engineering:
(http://images.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://garbageorart.com/images/Italien-Schiefer-Turm-von-Pisa.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHr8GdR44KbWG4P8wwFlbb6Y6a99w)
Once an EB-0L is thus restored to a highly original, albeit inconspicuous look:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2329.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2341.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2332.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2338.jpg)
... it will give you a lifetime of undiluted playing enjoyment:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2344.jpg)
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For our baseball fans, that is the rarely-seen "MetsBurst" finish...
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Or Denver Bronco buster fin
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2344.jpg)
Uwe, don't remember if I've already told you, but you're too sexy on that pic.
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I have to quickly eat a banana now. :mrgreen:
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Ok, that's enough, I'm changing my avatar NOW!!!
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A very curved banana it is too, how did that pass EU Regulations?
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By using "back door" maybe? Who knows!
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Back Door is always bass related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGOx_ojlJfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gutdzlHK6E
Except that I find Colin Hodkinson's very flat bass sound (its sound setting, not the way he plays bass as such) unremarkable, how much better would that stuff sound with a warm Gibson sound, say my roaring EB-0L from above? Hodkinson floundered with his sound and his style when he was with Whitesnake in the early eighties. Against Cozy Powell's onslaught he could not cut through and he never found a place within Whitesnake's music for all the little runs he can do, he was patently unimaginative as the bass player of Whitesnake or uninspired. Years later he would say: "What shall I say about Whitesnake?! It was very hard work and I was paid well."
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The Badass is offensive not because it's a Badass but because the top was gouged out for it. You can see that clearly in one of the auction pics.
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Had to do that for my Ric 8 string too, not to put on a new bridge, but to retain the old one!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/_DSC5393.jpg)
Will I go to hell now?
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Of course not. You were trying to make a defective bass playable.
There's no excuse for this to be done with an aftermarket bridge on the EB-0L.
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The Badass is offensive not because it's a Badass but because the top was gouged out for it. You can see that clearly in one of the auction pics.
That's what I meant ;D
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I can fin my "fin" in any fin after that...
Uwe... mein hero... ;)
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I cannot believe how someone could do something as atrocious to an EB-0L, these basses deserve to be untouched or restored to their original look! >:( :-\ :rolleyes: :o :o :o
Regarding restoration to original look, choice of tasteful, not too garish refin is of course paramount, take advice from your local drag queen/style icon/model train enthusiast/Afrika Korps veteran on that:
Herr Moderator,
I had no idea I was such a profound influence on you and this extraordinary bass.................
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I curtsey to you, fine Sir!
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I look at that bass and see one that's had some crappy things done to it, but I also see an otherwise beautiful Gibson just waiting for someone to lovingly help it back to some sort of glory (like Uwe's bullet riddled baby). I wish I were in the position to do so now, but I know that specimens like that will forever pop up now and then thanks to the 70's and 80's. I'll get my chance again someday. :)
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Herr Moderator,
I had no idea I was such a profound influence on you and this extraordinary bass.................
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I curtsey to you, fine Sir!
Mark, I distinctly remember that you were the one who suggested that orange/blue burst.
Maybe you were so surprised that he took you seriously that you forgot about it. ;D
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Who would have thought a sucessful German Litagotor would listen to a Drag Queen halfway around the world? :o
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Always remember, Mark. Some queens are better than others! ;)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PkG2XWfCoA&feature=related
Embedding is deactivated so copy this here
to find it at youtube:
Mott The Hoople - Rock n Roll Queen - Paris 1971
At 1.23, Herr Hunter's risque lyrical variation is worth a listen! ;) Never mind how Mick Ralphs is badly out of tune initially, he gets to grips with it during the song.
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Yeah.....................
But you taunt me with with Thunderbird II pr0n!
Want one SO bad! :-\
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Hasn't anybody taught you how to use a bridge pup? One pup basses are like three-legged dogs. They can compensate.
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3 balled tomcat is more like it............ooops!
Seriously, single pup 'Birds just get me all spoingky ;D
And no, having two isn't enough for me.
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We have 2 of the best "Queen's" in the world... Her Maj' and Sir Elton... ;D
Mark can wear Seattle's Crown with (gay) pride... ;)
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Seriously, single pup 'Birds just get me all spoingky ;D.....
Will someone please get Mark a towel? ;D
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Is anyone going to the Mott the Hoople reunion shows? I'd love to be there but a trip to the UK is not in the cards for me right now. Hopefully they'll make it to the States intact... :P
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My wife and I talked about going to the show when tickets first went on sale. We decided that we were going to pass on it, in the end. We've got more important things to do with our money right now.
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Sorry to say, but that's my situation too...
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saw mott in 74 with the dolls. a glamourous event. :mrgreen:
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saw mott in 74 with the dolls. a glamourous event. :mrgreen:
I saw them about the same time with Kansas opening (unannounced as a last minute replacement for Queen when Brian May got hepatitis). Short, but excellent, show.
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saw mott in 74 with the dolls. a glamourous event. :mrgreen:
You lucky bastid! I'm jealous! Where was that show at? Was it a double T-bird duel (even tho Overend could play circles around Arthur - RIP)?