I just bought British Guitar & Bass Magazine (August issue: Ritchie Blackmore Strat on the cover) and it features a review of the new Grabber. Haven't read it yet, but I'll keep ya posted!
Can I test the new Grabber for De Bassist? please :)
I tried to get in touch with Gibson NL for months without luck. Strange, cos you would think they want us to review the new Silverburst Epi T-bird, this Grabber and the Epiphone Thunderbird Pro. Just before the Messe Gibson US stopped all the advertisements because of the crisis and a week later they decided to fire the marketing people. So my contact, which I got in touch with after months of mailing and calling, is now fired, so I have to start to find someone again... :(
BTW: Basvarken does some reviews now too! I made him happy last month by prividing him a real bass for once. No Tonka Hobbits, no shortscale children's basses, but a real Fender!
I can't handle a real bass for grown ups, so I stick to my toys (and aircraft carrier basses aka Thunderbirds)
Tonka Bass!
LMAO :mrgreen:
Rob is a bass pedophile. Innocent short scales and hobbits he needs to seduce ...
WTF? The shortscales that I own are all more than 35 years old! They are grown up. Just small grown ups...
And just because they are small doesn't mean they don't have rights...
(http://z.about.com/f/wiki/e/en/thumb/7/7b/Dwarf-team-gb.jpg/350px-Dwarf-team-gb.jpg)
Hey wait a minute here! leave the shorties alone. I happen to like the shorties even though they are guitarlike on my whale -esque frame. Dont mak me open a can of Big Dog whoop ass!..... :mrgreen:
Is midget sex any better?
:popcorn:
Yes. You can put your beer on top, while being given head.
To me, that kind of dwarfs the erotic aspect of it. One thing at a time.
At parties of the band Queen they used to have dwarves with plates with cocaine on their heads.
I'll wait with the Grabber review for a while, cos that would spoil this thread.
If you don't post that Grabber review asap, I'm parachuting in at dawn!
Quote from: uwe on July 05, 2009, 08:00:18 AM
If you don't post that Grabber review asap, I'm parachuting in at dawn!
Naked, with a troop of commando dwarves all wearing flat hats.
Parachuting naked Nazi midgets doing blow (both ways). We needed a thread about them.
All of the last five posters...
Doctor Kenny Von Dumpfkopf, donning his horn-rimmed glasses, peering over the top, wearing a finely tailored dark suit, pad in one hand, pen in the other, leaning slightly forward on a period chair, right leg crossed over the left, invites his clients to be seated...
"Gentlemen, vun at a time, tell me about your childhoods...? (zis should get me into ze Psychologists Gazette, nein problemfb) I fink ve should start viz the Antipodean vurst, ya...?"
Your posts make the ghost of Herve Villechaize very sad.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/2056259811_c8f5c03b24.jpg?v=0)
Q: What kind of M&M's does Herve Villechaize prefer?
A: The Plain, The Plain.......
:mrgreen:
And now for some shocking news: Wrestling midgets killed by fake hookers (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Wrestling_midgets_killed_by_fake_hookers&in_article_id=696603&in_page_id=34) :o
Modervator Vest und Herr Cruz, pleeze join ze queue... (mein gott, ze Nobel Peace prize is vivin grashp...!)
Gosh......( in my most naive Okie voice ) wasn't someone going to review a bass here?
Oh wait I forgot where I was for a moment......dwarves, parachutes, questionable behavior, all we need are a few Messerschmitts.........
Quote from: Bass VI on July 05, 2009, 10:46:37 PM
Gosh......( in my most naive Okie voice ) wasn't someone going to review a bass here?
Oh wait I forgot where I was for a moment......dwarves, parachutes, questionable behavior, all we need are a few Messerschmitts.........
Two words here...........repeat after me. Anal Sex. ;D
Okay, guys, I'll get this back on track again, after laughing my ass of for some minutes ;D
A summary:
In the UK it's apparently priced at 1.399 pounds, which is quite an okay price, having in mind ony 350 are made. The magazine does point out that you can score an original '70s version for 800 pounds.
The first things they mention is the 'silky satin ebony overcoat' and the huge size. About the neck they mention: 'Rather than super slim and fast, the maple neck is a model of comfort and playability and feels very classy under the hand.
The reviewer thinks the headstock is a bit too large, the bridge is well adjustable, but you need too many different gauges of screwdrivers to adjust it.
Of course they add some question marks to the sliding pick up:
'When Gibson says it can be moved 'between the end of the neck and the bridge', what they mean is that it will slide over a distance of about 95mm in a section in the middle of the body...'
The again Gibson as we know and love it:
'It isn't hard to adjust: you only need to loosen the four retaining screws and the pick up will slide quite easily. However, on our review model moving it closer to the neck resulted in the strings choking out on the pick up as it's been factory-set a little too proud of the body for comfortabe clearance.'
'With the humbucker slid to the 'bridge' position and the tone knob on maximum treble you get a lively, growly sound with a beautiful chiming, paion-like edge to the bottom end that's packed with harmonics. There's a solid feel to notes on thinner strings, with a well balanced midrange producing a sharply defined note - more than fat enough for grooving along, but it'll also cut through effortlessly, although in a manner that may be a tad lively for some. Nudging the pick up 15mm closer to the neck (all that's possibe without lowering the pick up) adds a noticaby sily width to proceedings. We're not sure you'd want to perform this adjustment on the fly. It really is a 'set and forget' affair.'
'A much easier way to sanitise the lively rock tone of the near bridge position is to back off the tone to 6. There's less harmonic fizz. Dialling the tone down to 4 gives a fat rootsy sound, great for filling space.'
'All kinds of players will find a suitabe sound.'
'Sound-wise it's meat-and-potatoes stuff, but of a very high quality, with lively width and decent, practical tonal varioations, which head into P-Bass direction, but the chiming note edge is married to a well-realised bottom end that sets this 1970s Gibson reissue apart from the legions of basses out there.'
Build Quality: 17/20
Playability: 18/20
Sound: 17/20
Value For Money: 15/20
Vibe: 16/20
Total: 83%
Good for: Retro rock and pop.
ook elsewhere for: Contemporary active sounds or a more conservative headstock.
I typed this quite fast so my apologies for some errors.
Cheers Chris, very eloquent and descriptive review.
Accurate review. Author knew what he was doing. Much as the Les Paul Standard is an all out rock bass, so is this. Mike Dirnt would be (re)converted in a sec.
A "paion-like edge"?
When I'm on the edge, I sometimes feel paion.
When I pass each toll booth on the highway, I paion as I go.
Or is that in the sense of the Greek gods?
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Paion.html
Never heard of that greek god, lol! Maybe there is a greek god for everything, like, let's say, a Gibson bass collector god.
I wanted to say I meant 'piano' but the Greek god is better!
Quote from: exiledarchangel on July 06, 2009, 10:59:19 AM
Never heard of that greek god, lol! Maybe there is a greek god for everything, like, let's say, a Gibson bass collector god.
Has a mortal spoken my name?!!!
:mrgreen:
Uwehornus or something it'll be?
I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord... 8)