Gene Simmons EB-0 (KISS content)

hieronymous · February 21, 2008, 03:02:29 PM

Following up on this thread, I found an article on one of the Gibson basses Gene Simmons used in the early years of KISS. I seem to remember there was a bass purporting to have belonged to Mr. Simmons on eBay, and a thread back in the DP2 days? Well, I was throwing out some magazines (recycle of course), and clipped this:

Any thoughts? I have higher resolution scans if anyone is interested, or maybe I can just post them here.

Blazer · February 21, 2008, 06:15:19 PM

Kiss "Love 'em and leave 'em"

As far as I found out information on this particullar bass, Gene Simmons didn't use it that much and there is no concert footage of him using it. Kiss were Gibson endorsees in those days so it could well be that Simmons got it as a promotional model through the deal but as we now know, he's more of a long scale guy when his basses are concerned.

Oh yeah, could you send me those scans too, I love to read more about that bass.

OldManC · February 21, 2008, 07:14:07 PM

You lift your dress, you wanna impress...

marcnorth · February 21, 2008, 07:26:18 PM

This was on ebay a while back.
Looks like the same bass with the dot missing.

marcnorth · February 21, 2008, 07:29:54 PM

A closer pic of the body.

Nocturnal · February 21, 2008, 07:59:52 PM

I wouldn't mind a scan of it if you don't mind.

nocturnalbass @ yahoo . com just remove any spaces in the address

Thanks

Iome · February 22, 2008, 01:03:20 AM

Scan recieved, thanks alot, mate.

uwe · February 22, 2008, 03:34:11 AM

I wonder what became of that ebay bass - I remember the auction was called off early. The large scratchplate probably hid the hole from the original mudbucker position. The string thru thing is interesting. Gene probably picked that up from his Rippers and Grabbers.