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Title: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: lowend1 on January 17, 2012, 06:29:38 PM
 :rolleyes:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/rhythm-sections-0111-2012/
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: gweimer on January 17, 2012, 06:50:08 PM
...thud...
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Denis on January 17, 2012, 07:31:51 PM
Wow, most of those were obvious.

Mick Fleetwood and John McVie should have made this list, but then that means the compilers would have actually had to have heard of them.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on January 17, 2012, 08:49:19 PM
...just when you thought it was impossible to have a more inane top ten list than Rolling Stone, Gibson comes along and shows them how it's really done!
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Dave W on January 17, 2012, 10:00:48 PM
"At Gibson.com, we simply can't get enough of that cascading cannon-style drum sound, and little competes with a flawlessly executed, funky slap-and-pop bassline."

Well, that sure explains Jack and Meg White.  :rolleyes:

It may also help explain why Gibson is so clueless when it comes to bass.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Pilgrim on January 17, 2012, 10:59:33 PM
At least I've heard of some of the bands....
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: gearHed289 on January 18, 2012, 10:31:42 AM
Quote from: Dave W on January 17, 2012, 10:00:48 PM"and little competes with a flawlessly executed, funky slap-and-pop bassline."

They apparently think it's still 1990.  :-\
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Dave W on January 18, 2012, 06:56:45 PM
Quote from: gearHed289 on January 18, 2012, 10:31:42 AM
They apparently think it's still 1990.  :-\

1990 would also fit in with the Novoselic sig bass and the look of the cheap new Epi/Tobias Toby models.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: SGD Lutherie on January 18, 2012, 07:18:54 PM
Quote from: Dave W on January 17, 2012, 10:00:48 PM
"At Gibson.com, we simply can't get enough of that cascading cannon-style drum sound, and little competes with a flawlessly executed, funky slap-and-pop bassline."

Well, that sure explains Jack and Meg White.  :rolleyes:


Plus, Meg White is an awful drummer!
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Pilgrim on January 19, 2012, 10:55:28 AM
Quote from: Dave W on January 17, 2012, 10:00:48 PM
"At Gibson.com, we simply can't get enough of that cascading cannon-style drum sound, and little competes with a flawlessly executed, funky slap-and-pop bassline."


That would be why Duck Dunn doesn't play a Gibson.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Denis on January 19, 2012, 08:31:45 PM
Quote from: SGD Lutherie on January 18, 2012, 07:18:54 PM
Plus, Meg White is an awful drummer!

Would that be why there's no bassist in that band?
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on January 19, 2012, 10:24:22 PM
Quote from: SGD Lutherie on January 18, 2012, 07:18:54 PM
Plus, Meg White is an awful drummer!

You're watching the wrong vibrating orbs with her.  ;) Them puppies keep good time.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: nofi on January 20, 2012, 08:16:36 AM
not every band wants or needs a bass player.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: gweimer on January 20, 2012, 09:53:29 AM
Quote from: nofi on January 20, 2012, 08:16:36 AM
not every band wants or needs a bass player.

The devil you say....
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: exiledarchangel on January 20, 2012, 12:46:28 PM
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on January 19, 2012, 10:24:22 PM
You're watching the wrong vibrating orbs with her.  ;) Them puppies keep good time.

+1. Here's my rule for that kind of situations: for any given female musician, the sum of boobs and talent remains constant.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Dave W on January 20, 2012, 05:22:18 PM
Quote from: exiledarchangel on January 20, 2012, 12:46:28 PM
+1. Here's my rule for that kind of situations: for any given female musician, the sum of boobs and talent remains constant.

There are some exceptions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlgDQbvo9I
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: the mojo hobo on January 21, 2012, 05:31:21 PM
There are some exceptions indeed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: nofi on January 21, 2012, 07:46:12 PM
yeah, the shaggs! so ahead of their time! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Dave W on January 22, 2012, 12:48:33 PM
The people who claim the Shaggs were making some kind of avant garde music were either being facetious or else were the kind of folks who would buy an empty canvas because an "artist" told them it represented something deep.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: nofi on January 23, 2012, 07:39:59 AM
they were just plain bad, but charming in a sad sort of way. :-[

from what i have read daddy made them to it.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: Dave W on January 23, 2012, 10:28:28 AM
Quote from: nofi on January 23, 2012, 07:39:59 AM
they were just plain bad, but charming in a sad sort of way. :-[

from what i have read daddy made them to it.

Maybe daddy did, but unfortunately they still won't go away, thanks to those who somehow think they were brilliant.

It also rankles me when I read that they were the first all-female rock and roll band to play their own instruments. They certainly weren't the first, they couldn't play their instruments and the "music" they played wasn't any recognizable form of popular music.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: the mojo hobo on January 23, 2012, 07:02:00 PM
Maybe daddy paid off some DJs too. That song did get played on at least one Chicago radio station.

But then, that was back when LSD was at the hieght of it's popularity too.
Title: Re: Another flawless Top 10 list from Gibson
Post by: nofi on January 23, 2012, 09:28:43 PM
some info here from a record geek. i think they pressed 1,000 lps that wound up getting 'lost'. the few that survived are worth a bunch. it was reissued a couple times over the years. just my 2 cents.