Krist Novoselic and Ripper clip

Denis · June 20, 2010, 11:22:24 AM

Badger posted this for me since I'd never seen it. At least it was a Ripper; an RD would have killed him!

hieronymous · June 20, 2010, 11:24:22 AM

Just saw that the other day on MTV!

OldManC · June 20, 2010, 11:54:19 AM

So much to laugh at in that clip...

mc2NY · June 22, 2010, 08:23:53 PM

Didn't that clip inspire Gibson to come out with this Kirst prototype model, designed to MISS his head as it fell?

BTW...this really WAS a Gibby prototype. Proof that they DO smoke pot at planning sessions at Gibson.

jumbodbassman · June 23, 2010, 04:31:39 PM

what about a devo prototype..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o&feature=related

mc2NY · June 23, 2010, 04:57:58 PM

Ya know....I cannot thing one a single current music video on MTV that can compare with that Devo video for originality. Sad, huh?

I also forgot that I actually worked road/stage crew for Devo once at a big venue in Rochester, NY. That was a pretty strange gig setting up all their wacked out gear..

There was a radio DJ named Suzanne King who I worked with back before that who was from Akron, Ohio and she came in after some holiday where she had gone home...and she pulls out a tape and says "you have to hear my sister's boyfriend's band" and she put it on in the production studio...and it was the then-unsigned Devo.

TBird1958 · June 23, 2010, 05:00:31 PM

Quote from: mc2NY on June 22, 2010, 08:23:53 PM
Didn't that clip inspire Gibson to come out with this Kirst prototype model, designed to MISS his head as it fell?

BTW...this really WAS a Gibby prototype. Proof that they DO smoke pot at planning sessions at Gibson.

You know Uwe has two of these?
I think one of them has no upper horn.......perhaps he'll look in and post.

uwe · June 24, 2010, 01:23:03 AM

Uwe has none of these, but Jon has three, the old hoarder. To his credit, he offered to trade me one, but only against my 1986 TB II bequeathed to me from George. No way I can give that up, it's the only staunch Republican Bird I have. I should perhaps refin it in tea party tint?

I do have two reg G-3s, one of them the last run in the eighties when they switched to ebony boards and finned them CAR.

mc2NY · June 24, 2010, 05:19:43 AM

Quote from: uwe on June 24, 2010, 01:23:03 AM
Uwe has none of these, but Jon has three, the old hoarder. To his credit, he offered to trade me one, but only against my 1986 TB II bequeathed to me from George. No way I can give that up, it's the only staunch Republican Bird I have. I should perhaps refin it in tea party tint?

I do have two reg G-3s, one of them the last run in the eighties when they switched to ebony boards and finned them CAR.

Uwe.....At least I was good enough to offer you the mint ones (one a G-3 and the other a B-450 truss model BTW) and not my roadkill one above

I wonder who gigged this thing so long and hard to have it look like this?

It IS good to know that there are a few Gibby prototype basses NOT in your house yet. Next time I gig in Germany I'll have to haul one along for you to see. UWE: You're cordially invited, even without that three pup TBird as a gift!

Besides, the only reason I wanted a second '86 TBird II, is because TBird1958 keeps asking me for my other one

Denis · June 24, 2010, 06:08:38 AM

Quote from: mc2NY on June 22, 2010, 08:23:53 PM
Didn't that clip inspire Gibson to come out with this Kirst prototype model, designed to MISS his head as it fell?

BTW...this really WAS a Gibby prototype. Proof that they DO smoke pot at planning sessions at Gibson.

Were they going to call that the Thalidomide Ripper G3? $:-\$

uwe · June 24, 2010, 07:06:04 AM

I'm actually of the year (1960) where Thalidomide (called "Contergan" in Germany where it was created too) hit hardest in Germany, thankfully my mom didn't take it though it was aggressively advertised as a pregnancy painkiller. Or why guinea pig and human pregnancies are two different things after all. $:-\$

Ironically, it is still being produced today, they just coyly changed the trade name. Why? Though never intended in its conception, Thalidomide is one of the most potent halters of leprosy in its late stages. It is being used to this day in Brazilian leprosy centers which unfortunately still have a sizeable clientel. And while it is advised as not to be used during pregnancy, the patients of course do anyway - yes, lepers have sex too and why shouldn't they, their disease is only acquired. Which opens up a whole row of ethical issues. Save the adult lepers, but accept that their children will have birth defects? Not an easy decision to make. The German producer of Thalidomide is henceforth very quiet about the fact that the drug is still being made and the ethical questions it raises in use today. And to avoid any negative implications they are actually giving it away to those leper treatment centers for free. Which - after the shabby treatment the Thalidomide victims of the early sixties received - is at least a step forward.

Uwe

Dave W · June 24, 2010, 09:26:21 AM

From Nirvana to thalidomide within a dozen posts.

uwe · June 24, 2010, 10:13:01 AM

Kurt would have appreciated the subject. That and liberal gun laws.

Highlander · June 24, 2010, 02:13:56 PM

Lets throw the War into the mix, too...

There are numerous drugs that have dropped out of favour from their original form, but have found other uses...

I guess the manufacturers had a warehousefull of the stuff and kept trying things until they found something that worked...

Mepacrine was a popular (not with the people who used it) anti-malarial in WWII but most certainly fell out of favour due to nasty side effects - still in use - not for malaria...

TBird1958 · June 24, 2010, 02:45:52 PM

"Besides, the only reason I wanted a second '86 TBird II, is because TBird1958 keeps asking me for my other one"

Good to know I'm on your mind Herr Moderator.
Perhaps if you thought of the '86 TBird II as some form of reverse lend-lease it's slight absence from your lovely collection would be easier on you.....