The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: Hörnisse on September 01, 2013, 11:50:01 AM
I was looking at some on Ebay and came across this one.  It states in the auction that it is NOS but I can't understand the holes around the pickup openings.  They are unlike any I've seen on The Ripper.  The originals had no pickup mounting holes while the later ones had a sort of triangular arrangement.  Any theories?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-old-stock-Gibson-Ripper-pickguard-from-the-70s-/171111453253?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item27d7099245

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but that pickguard looks like ones that used to be sold by WD Music. I started a thread about them way back.

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=5433.msg87591;topicseen#msg87591

Quote from: Dave W on August 14, 2012, 09:55:03 AM
Hard to fault anyone for playing to please their fans, even if they are a shadow of what they used be. In some cases I wonder why fans still want to see a band that doesn't sound much like it used to or doesn't have any original members, but even then, that's the fans' decision.

Depends who's missing and who the replacement is, and what compromises you're prepared to put up with.

In The Who Zac Starkey isn't a bad replacement for Moon, and there's some logic for choosing him. The problem, for people who care at all, is in the bass department.

General view over here is The Who rescued the show from a mass of generally mediocre performances. Though Townsend looks increasingly self conscious doing the windmills.

Quote from: Aussie Mark on April 17, 2012, 05:14:26 PM
I love my Duesenberg so much I've just hit another one .....

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/220961704833?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

I like the look of that. And a big advantage buying with a currency that's still worth something.

Very nice.

Quote from: Chris P. on August 13, 2012, 04:14:53 PM
The first pic is a Harmony. Same as the second, later one of Ronnie Lane. Could be Ronnnie's bass, because a friend of mine sold it some years ago...

Really? I thought it was a Coronado, hence putting it in the Fender section. But now I've Googled up some Harmony pictures, I'm sure you're right.

The Pawn Shop Reverse Jag has a big MM humbucker, so the Jag could be using that. We need to infiltrate some bass players into the TV camera crew fraternity, lots of time on Townsend's Strat, which is of no interest whatsoever.

Never seen one of these on a stage (the bass, not Liam Gallagher)



And this with The Who. Looks like a Jaguar body, but the pickup/pickguard combination isn't right. Any ideas?

According to the Norwegians I met when I was over there, a long time ago admittedly, the ice age glaciers dumped all their rubbish into Denmark.

Quote from: Stjofön Big on August 02, 2012, 07:35:04 AM
Nice raw sound, and good bassline too! I like the singers voice. Bit like Grace Slick?
For my rock-blues band, Shake Down, I use a Ripper. Though it's not a Ripper no more, to be honest. Had some P-bass pu's installed, so I got rid of them, and put a black T-bird pup in her, made a new pickguard, 2 controls, and, voila, a new bass with a great sound saw the light of day.

Thanks, I'll pass on the Grace Slick comparison to her. I've been trying to get some Airplane in the set, but no luck so far. I've even got the JCS waiting (though it's good for way more than that).

Thanks everyone. That means I don't have to venture again into the labyrinth of Ripper wiring. Hell, those things are complicated.

I still can't see why mine was wired the way it was when I got it. I lived with it for a while, but rarely got through two songs with it.

And, yeah, pick players unite!

Since I got my 78 ebony Ripper, I've had real problems with the sound I get from it. Eventually I worked out that the bridge pickup, which is a rebuild by Kent Armstrong, was wired single coil and reversed polarity. I can't get my head around the effect that has electrically, with the 4 settings, but I used the pictures on Jules' site to wire it correctly, and it's better. It still sounds completely different from the earlier alder/maple Ripper I have, but I'm not too surprised at that.

When we played for the Jubilee in June my daughter filmed some of the set and I was using it in position 2, so the KA is solo. Sounds very aggressive to me. What do you think, does that sound like a Ripper? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR_fg5B3UpU&feature=plcp

(There may be other factors, the 1x12 combo for example. BTW, I know my playing was awful, we'd been laid off since Feb and had 1 rehearsal.)

Quote from: patman on August 01, 2012, 06:53:30 PM
IMHO the "Maple" years for Gibson were the best.  Only Gibson bass I ever owned was a Ripper.

My natural maple neck / alder body Ripper sounds better to me than the later one with a maple body. The later one is black though, and looks cool. It's also 2lbs heavier.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPaBWxcnl30&feature=player_embedded

Quote from: Dave W on July 06, 2012, 12:15:16 PM
But they look cool, and that's part of the appeal.

They do, but only with a 2x2 headstock. 4 in line just doesn't work for me on a semi.

Quote from: uwe on June 21, 2012, 09:27:12 AM
Hey, that's unfair!!! My music taste is wide ranging, everyone who knows me is surprised, more wide-ranging than anybody else I know. My car is currently filled with (CDs, I don't listen to individual songs, always to complete CDs)  ....

Stick with it. Having moved my mp3s onto my phone, so I can use the voice search to tell it which album to play in the car, I realised I am now completely incapable of deciding which album I want to hear. Too much mp3 player on random scrambles the brain.