The Last Bass Outpost

  Good one!

I think your friend is a great guy.  However now I must hate you. 

But seriously, that is a lovely bass.

Lovely bass--play it long, loud and proud!

Quote from: VeloDog on March 22, 2014, 07:12:43 AM
What a great feeling neck!  Most comfortable bass I've ever played.

Also, I've found that if I run the EB0 through an old Cry Baby Wah pedal I can adjust the tone for room acoustics much better than if I omit it altogether, and can add a bit of treble instantly for solos.

I agree with you about the neck.  The tone is what it is, but I love my EBO.  Crybaby wah, you say?  Gotta give that one a whirl!

Quote from: OldManC on February 12, 2014, 06:14:40 PM
I've seen this video a number of times over the last few years but I never noticed the bird back there. 

I'll watch it a couple more times.  If you say it's in there I believe you.

Quote from: pilgrim9 on January 20, 2014, 06:18:13 PM
It looks like a original white guard that was painted black to me.

I agree.  You can see the Bird in the corner.  The bass was played a fair amount after the guard was painted black.  There's plenty of nicks and scratches where the paint was knocked off and you can see the white underneath. 

I kind of like the idea of putting the black guard back on it and dropping some kind of j bass pup back in the hole.  Just to have some fun.  Serious restoration could begin later. 

Not saying I'm in this thing.  I'm totally skint.

I'll have to pass I'm afraid.   But what a ridiculously cool item.  Something like that be in the Smithsonian.

Quote from: uwe on December 02, 2013, 12:55:05 PMThere are more TBirds around being played today (both old and new) than ever in the history of mankind. To be fair: Gibson has a track record of being ahead of the market with its models first time around and finding success only upon rerelease, see Les Paul, Flying V and Explorer guitars.

Ain't that the truth!

Quote from: neepheid on November 26, 2013, 03:01:46 AM
I'd rather they slowed down a bit and did 'em right. 

+1.  They should consider treating The Coolest Bass Ever Made with the same respect they show to the Les Paul, ES-335 and SG.  They know how to do better.

Lovely bass!  Congrats---life is too short not to go for the stuff that means something to you. 

Quote from: uwe on October 24, 2013, 01:06:41 PM
He adored Albert Lee, so he wasn't per se against Teles, but at the time of the vid (1968) he was still firmly a Gibson man with his beloved cherry ES-335. It's what you hear even on a lot of In Rock, he was only introduced to Strats by Clapton around that time. I believe those instruments in the spoof vid were just rented out to them - to my knowledge Nick Simper never owned or really played an EB-2 for instance, I've never seen him play anything else but a P- or Tele Bass.

Blackmore does play a Fender Tele Thinline with Blackmore's Night today though.

Mr Bl..uh, you know... did actually play a Tele back in the Mk I Purple days.  He used it as his "beater" for doing the destructo routine.  It's in his bio.  As I recall, Simper said he tried to destroy it every night but the thing kept hanging in there, refusing to die.  Recommended only for the doggedly determined: skip ahead to 15:30.  Really hard on the eyes but if you bear with it you'll get the slightest glimpse of said Tele here and there.  Might even be the same one as in the above video, but who could say for sure?

Quote from: Pilgrim on September 07, 2013, 03:56:32 PM
Absolutely.  Same idea as my '64 EB-0 with one Dimarzio and one mudbucker...but you're gonna need to fill in a bit around the second pickup...

You're loaded for bear with that one.   

Quote from: Nokturnal on September 08, 2013, 10:38:43 AM
Welcome to the Outpost CMAJ and VeloDog!!!

Thanks for the welcome!  I didn't realize that was my first post.  I've been registered here for quite a while and have lurked even longer.  Figured I had responded to some thread before  but I guess not. 

I usually just look in on the Gibson section, as their basses are interesting to me, especially T-Birds.  If money wasn't so tight in my household these days I would have plucked a Greco T-Bird off ebay by now.  A real Gibby is out of the question right now, especially since I'm not gigging as a bass player these days.  Been playing guitar and bass a good long time.  In fact, my first guitar hero was somebody who needs no further mention here...

Quote from: Granny Gremlin on September 06, 2013, 09:04:53 AM
The thing about EB0s (and anything with a mudbucker, non choked) is that they tend to work best with solid state front ends (like on that hybrid MM).  It's something to do with the massive 30K output and/or sine-like fundamental of the damn things that gives vintage tube based front ends a really hard time.  I still like that sound (mud + tube pre) sometimes but it is what it is.  One of the coolest bass sounds I ever got (totally byu accident) was my EB3 (on position 1, so basically an EB0) straight in to a small Peavey solidstate practice amp (either an 8 or 10" speaker, forget exactly) that is usually my repair bench test amp.  It's an extreme example of the rule of opposites at work.

I had the same experience plugging my EBO into a little ss Crate guitar amp with an 8" speaker.  An inspiring practice rig--and I wouldn't hesitate to record with it if that was the sound I was looking for.  I love the way that bass feels in my hands and I love the feeling it puts into my playing.  Doesn't matter to me how many other players don't like 'em.