Really cool rare Epi les paul standard bass,

[Deathshead]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Epiphone-Vince-Hornsby-Les-Paul-Standard-Bass-Rare_W0QQitemZ220555131415QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item335a1c3a17

This is a Vinnie hornsby signature lp std bass, pretty cool and not that easy to find, would look worlds better with chrome pup covers and hardware though..   love that maple neck and the price is right.

[Barklessdog]

They are nice looking basses.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

That's the signature model I talked about playing at the Gibson Store in another thread. They wanted $650 for a used one few years back. It plays really nice, but the EMG's are very 'blah' and generic sounding. It's too expensive to buy  and then have to reload the pickups, but I have been eyeing that auction for awhile.  In person, the fretboard stars are much more prominent and the maple gives the strings an odd snap acoustically, like crossing a Stingray with a T-Bird, which unfortunately, does not translate through the pickups. It sucks to see such a gorgeous instrument end up sounding like any other generic imported bass.

[uwe]

You don't see them that often, they only had a short lifespan in the Epi line. To this day I don't know who the guy this signature model is to pay tribute to actually is.

[Freuds_Cat]

Nice looking bass, he mentions it as a semi-hollow body. Semi hollow alder bass...interesting.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

To this day I don't know who the guy this signature model is to pay tribute to actually is.

He's the bass player from Sevendust, an Atlanta band who had the misfortune of playing intelligent neo-prog metal with a black singer for years and then having to ride the coattails of Limp Bizkit and Korn to noteriety. Now they're stuck in major "label-dictated-next-big-thing-sound" hell.

[uwe]

Oh, I have one of their CDs. Have to dig it out to listen to the bass, I have a grungy memory of their sound, Creed and Nickelbag'ish minus the pop content.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

That's their "post-pop" sound. The manager who hired me at Guitar Center years ago had been their guitar tech for awhile and turned me onto them before they were "big." There's some good stuff there that got ruined by 'the hit machine.'

[Highlander]

They do look very nice...

[Deathshead]

That's the signature model I talked about playing at the Gibson Store in another thread. They wanted $650 for a used one few years back. It plays really nice, but the EMG's are very 'blah' and generic sounding. It's too expensive to buy  and then have to reload the pickups, but I have been eyeing that auction for awhile.  In person, the fretboard stars are much more prominent and the maple gives the strings an odd snap acoustically, like crossing a Stingray with a T-Bird, which unfortunately, does not translate through the pickups. It sucks to see such a gorgeous instrument end up sounding like any other generic imported bass.

thats EMG for ya,.. alot of people like them, bleh,, so cold,harsh and sterile.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Anyone interested in this one? I may make a go of it since I have some old Ibanez Musician p/u's that should fit it.

[uwe]

Geddit. No one here so far has one of these, we need a report!

[Nocturnal]

I think someone here does have one:

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=2739.0

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I left it alone for two reasons: 1-it's not really what I'm looking for and 2- not ten seconds after I put up a post here expressing my interest, a bid was placed, so hopefully, it went to fellow OP'er.

[Chris P.]

I like it because the grey tigerstripe resembles my cat Curtis, with his bookmatched front paws. I'll make a pic.