I really like this http://cgi.ebay.com/GIBSON-EB-1-ELECTRIC-BASS-VINTAGE-1968-BEAUTIFULLY-KEPT_W0QQitemZ110248895033QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110248895033&_trkparms=72%3A552%7C39%3A1%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
Little over priced with the mod but I still like it, my finger is twitching.........................
Quote from: godofthunder on May 08, 2008, 05:25:51 PM
Little over priced with the mod but I still like it, my finger is twitching.........................
Man, I hate when that happens!!! ;D
These were made in 1970 and 71, maybe into 72. With no Made In USA under the S/N, it's probably early 1970.
It's nice, but between the mod and the lack of the peg, no way I'd offer anywhere near $2.5K.
The mod is at least tastefully done - he's basically turned it into an EB-1.3. Better than hammering a split coil in there ... :puke:
The EB-1 RIs have been going up over the years - I think Jack Bruce playing an albeit fifties model of it at the Cream reunion (btw Clapton is pretty damning about that in his book at least as regards the American concerts) played a large part in that. Talk about missed opportunities, if Gibson had offered a limited run of 100 custom shop EB-1s, they'd be all sold by now no matter what the price.
That said, there is very little sound you can get out of an EB-1 RI that you couldn't get out of an EB-0, -3 or -2 of the same era. if anything, the EB-1 RI is even more subwoofy - to an extent where you are leaving the realms of humanoid audibility. The fifties models otoh with their "humming coil" had a voice of their own (perhaps an early fifties EB-2 with the same pup could match that, but I've never heard one).
Uwe
Quote from: drbassman on May 08, 2008, 05:54:05 PM
Man, I hate when that happens!!! ;D
Tell me about it. I hit the bid button on a couple of those in the last year. I didn't win. I'm going to restrain myself this time. I found out how much I'm going to owe the government for taxes this year. ouch. And I mean
OUCH!
I love when you bid on something you where not really looking for, but can't pass up. You have to go through the stages of-
Lust-you know you want it, come on put a bid on it, you could always flip it if you don't like it
Greed - You can never have too many basses and make a bid
Fear-How are you going to pay for it if you win and tell your wife you bought yet another bass?
Rationalization - You could sell another bass or sell your dog to someone to get the cash, right?
Loss & regret-You only bid so high and lose, now you regret not bidding that $1.00 more
Denial - I don't have a GAS problem!
Acceptance-You accept it and go through it all again
Quote from: Barklessdog on May 09, 2008, 09:40:25 AM
I love when you bid on something you where not really looking for, but can't pass up. You have to go through the stages of-
Lust-you know you want it, come on put a bid on it, you could always flip it if you don't like it
Greed - You can never have too many basses and make a bid
Fear-How are you going to pay for it if you win and tell your wife you bought yet another bass?
Rationalization - You could sell another bass or sell your dog to someone to get the cash, right?
Loss & regret-You only bid so high and loose, now you regret not bidding that $1.00 more
Denial - I don't have a GAS problem!
Acceptance-You accept it and go through it all again
LOL! One bass at a time - err, I mean one day at a time...
Quote from: Barklessdog on May 09, 2008, 09:40:25 AM
I love when you bid on something you where not really looking for, but can't pass up. You have to go through the stages of-
Lust-you know you want it, come on put a bid on it, you could always flip it if you don't like it
Greed - You can never have too many basses and make a bid
Fear-How are you going to pay for it if you win and tell your wife you bought yet another bass?
Rationalization - You could sell another bass or sell your dog to someone to get the cash, right?
Loss & regret-You only bid so high and loose, now you regret not bidding that $1.00 more
Denial - I don't have a GAS problem!
Acceptance-You accept it and go through it all again
You need to get this put on a poster, and market it. I'd bet you'd sell a TON of them.
We are in the middle of a move right now............................... buying anything would not go over well. :-[
Quotebuying anything would not go over well.
I can't remember a time when buying a bass ever went well.
Quote from: uwe on May 09, 2008, 04:02:48 AM
(btw Clapton is pretty damning about that in his book at least as regards the American concerts)
What's the story on this?
Quote from: godofthunder on May 09, 2008, 03:59:58 PM
We are in the middle of a move right now............................... buying anything would not go over well. :-[
We just moved. My wife had never seen all the basses lined up before, although I've told her about every one. You know the old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words.
We are moving today. In the last few days of packing it has come to my attention that my daughter now has more gear than I do. THIS MUST CHANGE!!! I see a new purchase coming my way once we are settled! :mrgreen:
Quote from: Nokturnal on May 10, 2008, 06:55:56 AM
We are moving today. In the last few days of packing it has come to my attention that my daughter now has more gear than I do. THIS MUST CHANGE!!! I see a new purchase coming my way once we are settled! :mrgreen:
Good luck with your move! If you need help laying out a "music room from hell" let me know! I have some background experience there... :)
The EB-1 is one of those basses I've admired for years that would probably disappoint the hell out of me if I played one. But like a TB they're an acquired taste.
As far as the one JB used in the reunion concerts, it sounded just as sickly and weak as he looked. IMHO of course. And Hartke VX cabs?? (And Hartke in general?) Puhleeze.
And I do own some Hartke gear.
Hartkes only sound good if you're wearing a mullet.
Quote from: chromium on May 10, 2008, 10:55:24 AM
Good luck with your move! If you need help laying out a "music room from hell" let me know! I have some background experience there... :)
I may have to take you up on that offer Joe! I'm maybe 2 miles away from your house now. We'll have to get together for a beer (or several :mrgreen:) soon and you can give me some tips!
Quote from: n!k on May 09, 2008, 06:39:18 PM
What's the story on this?
He writes that he felt good about the RAH concerts even though he was sick with flu, but that doing it for Ginger's and Jack's pensions made him feel better and that it was a worthy closure of the Cream chapter which was always unfinished for him. But he regrets being talked into the US concerts ("if only we had stopped then" - meaning after RAH), because by then Ginger's and Jack's sour relationship had reared its ugly head again and the band was underrehearsed.
I don't think Bruce's bass sound was feeble at all with the Cream reunion concerts, it was lyrical (as it should be). Bruce has never had a fat or domineering bass sound. He doesn't play that way and his often introspective bass playing wouldn't go well together at all with a very full sound. It's just like Baker's drums don't sound "phat" by modern standards either, nor should they. Baker's drumming is like an animated intellectual conversation with the other instruments, I'd hate to hear it clad in the "crash, bang, wallop"-armored drum sound so en vogue at live concerts today.