1. Gibson EB-1 1953
2. Gibson EB-2 Banjo Headstock 1959
3. Gibson EB-0 Double Cutaway Les Paul Junior Body 1959/60
4. Gibson EB-6 (ES-330/335 Hollowbody) 1961
5. Gibson EB-0F 1963
6. Gibson EB-6 (SG Body) 1964
7. Gibson Reverse Thunderbird II 1964
8. Gibson Reverse Thunderbird IV 1965
9. Gibson Non-Reverse Thunderbird II 1966
10. Gibson Non-Reverse Thunderbird IV 1967
11. Gibson EB-2D 1967
12. Gibson Melody Maker EB-0 1967
13. Gibson EB-2 1968
14. Gibson Les Paul Recording Bass 1969
15. Gibson EB-1 Reissue 1969
16. Gibson Slothead EB-0 1969/70
17. Gibson Slothead EB-3 1969/70
18. Gibson Slothead EB-0L (+ 2 TB Plus Pickups) 1969/70
19. Gibson SB-300 1970-72
20. Gibson SB-400 1970-72
21. Gibson EB-0 1970-72
22. Gibson EB-3L 1972
23. Gibson EB-4 1970-72
24. Gibson Singlecut Ripper Prototype 1972-73
25. Gibson Les Paul Signature 1973-75
26. Gibson SB-350 1973-75
27. Gibson SB-450 1973-75
28. Gibson Les Paul Triumph 1973-75
29. Gibson Ripper 1974
30. Gibson Grabber "Grabber Blue"-one off 1974
31. Gibson L-9S Ripper Fretless 1976
32. Gibson Thunderbird IV Bicentennial 1976
33. Gibson Grabber Fretless 1976
34. Gibson EB-3 1976
35. Gibson RD Standard 1977
36. Gibson G-3 Maple Fretboard 1978
37. Gibson RD Artist 1979
38. Gibson Ripper 1981
39. Gibson Flying V 1981
40. Gibson Victory Standard 1981
41. Gibson Victory Standard Fretless 1981
42. Gibson RD Artist ACB w/CMT 1981
43. Gibson G-3 CAR Ebony Fretboard 1982
44. Gibson Grabber CAR three-ply neck 1982
45. Gibson Victory Custom 1982
46. Gibson Victory Artist 1982
47. Gibson Explorer Korina Custom-Built 1982/83
48. Gibson Explorer Shadow (Piezo) 1986
49. Gibson Explorer 1986
50. Gibson Thunderbird II Japan Limited Edition 1986
51. Gibson IV Bass 1987
52. Gibson V Bass 1987
53. Gibson V Bass w/Kahler Tremolo 1987
54. Gibson 20/20 1987
55. Gibson Wayne Charvel Prototype Bass IV String 1987
56. Gibson Wayne Charvel Prototype Bass V String 1987
57. Gibson Q-80 1987
58. Gibson Thunderbird IV Custom Shop Prototype with large headstock 1987
59. Gibson Q-90 Shadow (Piezo) 1988
60. Gibson Q-90 Combo 1989
61. Gibson Thunderbird VI One-Off Korina Model built by Phil Jones 1990 (based on discarded 1981 prototype)
62. Gibson Thunderbird 3x TB Plus Prototype 1990
63. Gibson Explorer West Coast Custom Shop, "early nineties", more likely later than that, lovingly done fake
64. Gibson EB-650 1991
65. Gibson Les Paul Doublecutaway Phil Jones Prototype Fretless 1991
66. Gibson EB-750 1992
67. Gibson LPB-1 (passive) 1992
68. Gibson LPB-1/5 Les Paul Special (5-String) 1993
69. Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Meshell Ndegeocello Prototype 1994
70. Gibson LPB-3/Standard 8-string Custom Shop T.M. Stevens signature model 1994
71. Gibson LPB-2/5 Les Paul Deluxe (5-String) 1995
72. Gibson LPB-2 Les Paul Deluxe Fretless 1996
73. Gibson SG Long Scale Bass (one-off item) 1997
74. Gibson Thunderbird IV 1997
75. Gibson Les Paul Smartwood Series (peroba top/curupay board) 1997
76. Gibson Leland Sklar Signature 1998
77. Gibson AB Super 400 Archtop 1999
78. Gibson Blackbird Nikki Sixx Signature 2000
79. Gibson SG-Z Cherry 2000
80. Gibson SG-Z Ebony with Mudbucker 2001
81. Gibson Les Paul EMG Splitcoil Custom Shop Bass 2001
82. Gibson Primavera Custom Shop Bass 2001
83. Gibson Les Paul Standard "Custom" Bass 2003
84. Gibson SG Reissue 2005
85. Gibson Thunderbird Studio 4-String 2005
86. Gibson Les Paul Doublecut 2005
87. Gibson Thunderbird Studio 5-String 2006
88. Gibson Thunderbird IV Gothic - Limited Edition 2006
89. Gibson "Guitar of the Week" SG Supreme Natural Satin Flametop 2007
90. Gibson "Guitar of the Week" Les Paul Money Bass 2007
91. Gibson "Guitar of the Week" Thunderbird IV Zebra Wood 2007
92. Gibson Les Paul Faded Limited Edition Flat Top Bass Guitar 2007
93. Gibson "Guitar of the Week" SG Supreme Fireburst Flametop 2007
94. Gibson "Guitar of the Week" Les Paul Money Natural Satin Flametop 2007
95. Gibson Thunderbird IV Nikki Sixx Signature Model 2008
96. Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Bass built by Dr Bassman from Gibson body/neck 2008
97. Gibson 2009 Limited Run Series Grabber II 2009
98. Gibson 2009 Limited Run Series Ripper II 2009
99. Gibson Les Paul BFG Bass Ltd. Ed. with three pickups 2010
100. Gibson Short Scale Thunderbird 2011
101. Gibson EB-0 Les Paul Junior Bass 2011
102. Gibson Oversized Les Paul Goldtop 2011
103. Gibson Flying V 2011
104. Gibson Thunderbird IV with Preciosa board 2011
105. Gibson RD Bass Krist Novoselic Signature 2011
106. Gibson Explorer Bass Ltd. Ed. 2011
I see this Explorer is at the bottom of the list, have you had the opportunity to don the assless chaps and break it in? ;)
What breaking in of the mentioned kind could I contribute that you haven't already I cry?!!!! :mrgreen:
Picked it up at customs today, it's in the car, as yet unplayeddeflowered except by you.
Where's the Continental V? I can't find it on your list! :vader:
But Dave, it's the journey, not the destination. 8)
I saw it, I touched it, es existiert ... Today Deutschland, tomorrow ze Köntinentäl V!!!
(http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/9356-gibson-continental-v-5-string-oil-finish-maple-neck-large.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36vKj3ugHXk
Quote from: uwe on April 11, 2012, 09:01:44 AM
What breaking in of the mentioned kind could I contribute that you haven't already I cry?!!!! :mrgreen:
Picked it up at customs today, it's in the car, as yet unplayeddeflowered except by you.
It wants some old fashioned Deutsche backside lovin' ;D
You mean: "Links, rectal, links, rectal ..." and so forth?
Quote from: uwe on April 11, 2012, 09:49:40 AM
You mean: "Links, rectal, links, rectal ..." and so forth?
Yes, exactly!
you might not want to view it underneath a black light tho........possible incriminating evidence could be seen ;)
Hmm, I see no Epiphone 5 stringer in there...
Quote from: TBird1958 on April 11, 2012, 10:11:04 AM
Yes, exactly!
you might not want to view it underneath a black light tho........possible incriminating evidence could be seen ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LsxHthFsRc
Quote from: Denis on April 11, 2012, 10:31:07 AM
Hmm, I see no Epiphone 5 stringer in there...
Now you do, Sir!!!
Epiphone Newport 1966
Epiphone Embassy 1966
Epiphone Scroll Bass 1976
Epiphone Genesis 1979
Epiphone Thunderbird Non-Reverse 5-String
Epiphone Jack Casady Signature
Epiphone Les Paul Special Prototype (neck-thru, quilted maple top) 1999
Epiphone EB-3 5 string 2000
Epiphone Elitist EB-3 2003
Epiphone Elitist Thunderbird IV
Epiphone Explorer
Epiphone Allen Woody Rumblekat Signature 2005
Epiphone Gothic Extreme Bass 2005
Epiphone Thunderbird IV Arctic White Limited Edition 2006
Epiphone Ripper Limited Edition Prototype 2006
Epiphone Ripper Limited Edition 2006
Epiphone Nikki Sixx Signature Blackbird 2007
Epiphone Ltd Ed Silverburst Thunderbird IV (with Gibson TB-Plus pups) 2009
Epiphone T-Bird Pro V 2009
Epiphone Zenith 2010
Plus one Kalamazoo KB-1 and one Orville by Gibson if you want to be a stickler about it.
Nearing the end of the road, except for new Gibson offerings & that Double Neck that has eluded you.
I know an Epi you might like. You already own the original pickups. :rimshot:
impressive Uwe.
I'm gonna have to come over shoot some more pics for the addendum ;)
Very impressive.
This incredible and historically important kollekshun should be documented in a book.
what a great idea :mrgreen:
I agree, very impressive!! You're one of the few people that make me, (with my 30 Gibsons), feel somewhat normal! I'm hardly compusive at all....... :vader:
Rob - does the grinning emoticon mean that a book is already in progress?
A year ago I spent an entire weekend in Frankfurt to shoot the entire collection. It is not going to be called the Uwe Hornung collection (although is is exactly that). The Gibson Bass Book is 95% done. The only problem is the interview parts. I just can't seem to get in touch with the famous Gibson bass players (such as Jack Bruce, Adam Clayton, Nikki Sixx). Several people have offered their help and none of them has been successful so far. Quite frustrating...
IMHO the importance of celebrity interviews in books such as this is greatly exaggerated. The real stars are the basses. Nikki Sixx? really? give me an interview with Uwe Hornung instead. Or some Gibson factory workers from different periods.
Quote from: ilan on April 12, 2012, 02:43:02 AM
Nikki Sixx? really?
The store of the ( then ) Dutch Gibson importers had a Thunderbird with a Nikki Sixx autograph collecting dust for at least 3 years in the mid 90s ...... It never failed to put a big fat grin on my face every time I walked past it ......
Irrespective of what you think of Mötley Crüe and Nikki Sixx (I much prefer the music of Sixx AM whose last CD was excellent)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh69hq_sixx-a-m-lies-of-the-beautiful-people_music#
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x480jd_sixx-a-m-accidents-can-happen_music
the man was pivotal for the still most iconic Gibson bass - the TBird - being reintroduced in 1987 and staying in the catalogue that long. It is now 25 years, no other bass model of Gibson comes even close in achieving that time line in uninterrupted sequence. George once observed that and I believe he's right. No Nikki Sixx, no modern TBird. He is to the TBird what Slash is to the Les Paul.
That said, most celebrity bass players are not so terribly helpful in elucidating why they play a particular model. In most cases it is just sticking to what they know and have grown to like. Marcus Miller on a Rickenbacker would still be Marcus Miller, but he shuns the change and the period of getting used to the new instrument. There are relatively few bass players that go through instruments like, say, Joe Perry does at an Aerosmith gig, i.e. twenty songs, twenty different guitars, ten different brands. Hell, I would if there was someone at the side of the stage to hand them to me!!! :mrgreen: Last night at the rehearsal I thoroughly enjoyed switching between an Ibanez ATK, the Roger Waters signature MIM P Bass, the three pup TB prototype and another TB from the early Custom Shop run in 1987 (whose pups are significantly weaker than of any later TB I've played). Findings: The ATK and the Waters' Pee are axes that gnaw their way through everything taking no prisoners to get heard, the TBirds are more musical and sit more in the band sound - audibly, but not clamoring for attention. Did I hear anybody say "a more adult sound"? :mrgreen:
Uwe
Quote from: Basvarken on April 12, 2012, 12:36:27 AM
A year ago I spent an entire weekend in Frankfurt to shoot the entire collection. It is not going to be called the Uwe Hornung collection (although is is exactly that). The Gibson Bass Book is 95% done. The only problem is the interview parts. I just can't seem to get in touch with the famous Gibson bass players (such as Jack Bruce, Adam Clayton, Nikki Sixx). Several people have offered their help and none of them has been successful so far. Quite frustrating...
Certainly everyone Jules & other interviewed are more than happy to give interviews. Bruce would be a jewel of an interview.
Of course I've asked Jules to help me out. But he's been too busy...
Quote from: Barklessdog on April 12, 2012, 12:40:25 PM
Certainly everyone Jules & other interviewed are more than happy to give interviews. Bruce would be a jewel of an interview.
Gotta have Overend in there too.
Quote from: Droombolus on April 12, 2012, 04:40:59 AM
The store of the ( then ) Dutch Gibson importers had a Thunderbird with a Nikki Sixx autograph collecting dust for at least 3 years in the mid 90s ...... It never failed to put a big fat grin on my face every time I walked past it ......
I remember a Thunderbird that was hanging behind the counter at GC at one time. I asked the salesman the price and he replied with $1800. I said, "Why so much?!?", to which he replied with, "Well, it's signed by Nikki Sixx." I then told him, "I'll give you $800 if you take the autograph off." All I got in response was a confused look. :mrgreen:
I seem to remember Nikki mainly using BC Rich Warlocks in Motley Crue's heyday. ???
I seem to remember Nikki mainly using BC Rich Warlocks in Motley Crue's heyday.
He used a white TBird in the bands early days. Around the that 'Shout' came out, he was using BC Rich and then Hamer. He has used a lot of brands, but has been using Gibson Birds for quite some time now.
There is a seller on Ebay right now trying to sell a standard sunburst Gibson Bird with a pickguard signed by Nikki. He only wants $3500 for it ??? The bass is only worth 1000 to 1500 at best, regardless of who has signed it.
Sixx AM is much much cooler than Crue, but that's just my personal opinion. :mrgreen:
Gibson book - Awesome!
The Crüe are by design - just like AC/DC - a limited concept. When they did try something different - that underrated grungy album after Neil's banishment from the fold -, the public would not have it. It is not much that they do, but they do that bit well. On stage I find that Tommy Lee is the only one of them with any type of star quality. Nikki just looks cool and Mars' scarescrow depiction is a sight to behold. Let's not even talk about Vince Neil, he embodies the inability to progress, both as a musician/singer and as an adult (if he ever reached that stage).
I always did like this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FnhrSmMwZs
Yup, that is cool with Glenn Hughes audibly on backing vocals, DP's Stormbringer is among Corabi's favorite albums. An unusual choice as DP albums go, but I can see where he is coming from, it was a varied album and had sort of a Californian laid back feel to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FaJRcUL6I
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/gcarlston/players/motley/nikkiwhsky01.jpg)
When Motley first appeared on the club scene in 1981 this was Nikki's only bass. There are also pictures of him playing it in his previous band, London. There were a few others with them in LA, but they weren't ubiquitous at all. In and around the Los Angeles club scene, Thunderbirds were few in a sea of Ps, Stingrays, and even Yamahas and Peaveys. BC Rich, even with their wild shapes, were boutique bass at the time. I had a '77 Eagle that was more exotic than rock (granted, it was Rich's most tame body style, but almost nobody had any of the others at the time either).
Within a few months of Motley playing out, Thunderbirds started popping up on flyers and on stage among the new crop of "Metal" bands that soon outnumbered the pop and punk bands by far. Their prices started climbing in the local Recycler (free classified ads) and it wasn't long before you saw at least one on every three act bill in Hollywood every single weekend. Nikki's white bird eventually died as a result of his stage antics and he replaced it with a crop of BC Rich basses he got in an endorsement deal in mid-late '82, but he went back to playing birds the second he found someone who would make them for him (Hamer) and has only rarely strayed from them since. He went back to Gibsons in the early 90's (though he may have had them sooner, he endorsed Spectors through '91 or so).
For a couple years there, Thunderbirds were everywhere (check out Headbanger's Ball videos from the late 80's and you'll see a hell of a lot of birds; Hamers, Spectors, BC Rich, ESPs, Jacksons; usually custom shop models made for endorsers because everyone wanted a Thunderbird.
By the time it was a noticeable trend outside of LA, Nikki was already playing the Richs, but Motley's meteoric rise on the LA club circuit definitely got that ball rolling in '81-82. Gibson had to have noticed that.
Can't argue with that....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IFCjRAeC1U
Quote from: uwe on April 13, 2012, 10:13:20 AM
...Neil...Tommy Lee...Nikki...Mars'...Vince Neil...
So THOSE are their names? ;D
I think the resemblance to porn star names was willfully and carefully crafted!
I like the album with Corabi singing. It was a real attempt to do something different for them. They have songs that I like a lot, but only a handful out of their entire catalog. The SIXX AM stuff is much better than the Crue IMO.