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Title: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: SKATE RAT on December 16, 2009, 08:23:30 PM
http://www.rockstarsguitars.com/product.php?c=1&cat=112&scat=217&x=0&y=135
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on December 16, 2009, 08:45:48 PM
Coooool

Funny that he doesn't want it tho.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: uwe on December 17, 2009, 12:30:40 AM
Bruce has said that he has tried reacquainting himself with an EB-3 for the Cream reunions, but thought the bass felt too small and insubstantial for him these days. An EB-1 is more of a hunk of wood and I guess the long scale mock-SG Warwick signature model was spawned by the same event. Except that Bruce didn't like how it turned out and never played it, but that has tradition with him as he didn't like the prototype Rippers from Gibson either even though he was involved in their conception in the early seventies.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: clankenstein on December 17, 2009, 12:37:36 AM
Quotethe bass felt too small and insubstantial for him these days
mmm but what about the sound?i sure prefer that to the warwick.go the luddites.bring back mono etc etc.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: uwe on December 17, 2009, 12:40:07 AM
Sound wasn't the issue, after all he payed the EB-1 which isn't lightyears away from an EB-3 in sound.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: Denis on December 17, 2009, 06:18:08 AM
I think I'd rather have Leon Wilkeson's Thunderbird, even if it's a weird color.

http://www.rockstarsguitars.com/product.php?c=1&cat=120&scat=229
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: Pilgrim on December 17, 2009, 09:14:22 AM
I'm diggin' the basses of Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater): http://www.rockstarsguitars.com/product.php?c=1&cat=117&scat=225&x=0&y=268

If you click through the pages, he's selling everything from an upright to a Hagstrom 8-string!
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: gweimer on December 17, 2009, 09:27:35 AM
Does this mean that Jack didn't make as much moola from the Cream reunions as we thought?
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: Dave W on December 17, 2009, 09:50:45 AM
Quote from: gweimer on December 17, 2009, 09:27:35 AM
Does this mean that Jack didn't make as much moola from the Cream reunions as we thought?

IIRC he hasn't owned this for years, it's someone else selling it.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: uwe on December 17, 2009, 01:19:44 PM
That was up for sale already long before the Cream reunion. He hasn't played EB-3s since West, Bruce & Laing and never had much affinity to a single instrument in the first place. He's most faithful to his Warwick fretless Thumb.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: Highlander on December 17, 2009, 01:46:33 PM
If she were that "critical" an instrument, she would be on display in a "Hard Rock" by now...  ;)
Title: Re: Jack Bruce's EB3 is up for sale
Post by: godofthunder on December 17, 2009, 03:26:17 PM
Now if that was Jimmy Lea's EB3 I'd be all worked up !  :o