Jason Momoa rocking a 1959 Explorer bass replica

[Basvarken]

Jason Momoa jamming with Cesar Gueikian on a replica 1959 Explorer bass










Not sure if the reel works?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/825795722929003

[Ken]

Cool, thanks.  I was able to watch the reel.  But not sure if any of it was Momoa playing.

[ilan]

Ken Collins owns the real and only one, with its own web page.

Momoa's replica has a chrome cover mudbucker. The 1959 has a black plastic cover.

https://www.explorerbass.com/in-print

[TBird1958]

Had to go looking for a picture...............But, it's different.

[Basvarken]

Haha that's Uwe's remake with gold plated hardware. 

[TBird1958]

Haha that's Uwe's remake with gold plated hardware. 

HHhMmmmmmm.............And he said that new Sparkle Purple Thunderbird was "Pimp" 

[uwe]

"Haha that's Uwe's remake with gold plated hardware." 

 


HHhMmmmmmm.............And he said that new Sparkle Purple Thunderbird was "Pimp" 

How incredibly vile and nasty you two are!  I had nothing whatsoever to do with the gestation of that particular bass, if you remember, a Texan car dealer wanted it that way and instructed the Custom Shop. I bought it decades later.

And soundwise, I bet it creams the mudbucker predecessors into the ground, so there!

[FrankieTbird]

Jason Momoa jamming with Cesar Gueikian on a replica 1959 Explorer bass

https://www.facebook.com/reel/825795722929003

Damn.  The man is like 8 feet tall and he can't find jeans that aren't too long?

[TBird1958]

How incredibly vile and nasty you two are!  I had nothing whatsoever to do with the gestation of that particular bass, if you remember, a Texan car dealer wanted it that way and instructed the Custom Shop. I bought it decades later.

And soundwise, I bet it creams the mudbucker predecessors into the ground, so there!

Your Mother told you, you'd meet girls like me!

My not pimp - ish Bombay Sapphire Bird!

 

There's still this........

[amptech]

An appropriate moment to repost the one I built some years ago:

[senmen]

Guys,
in fact the bass Jason Momoa is playing is owned by him and was
ordered by him with Gibson. 
And yes, the chrome cover is definitely the later add to the original
bass owned by Ken Collins but that is how it had been pictured most
in the magazines and also at the time Robb Lawrence sold it. 
But of course, the brown bakelite cover is the correct one as you
can see in the old Lonnie Mack photos. 
And to be original, in that early phase it didn't have the third knob
but had a baritone switch at that position. 
And yes also the tuners changed from time to time
Going via three banjos and one conventional to metal knob
banjos.  But the originals are of course the banjos with the classic
knobs. 
Despite Uwes great bass Gibson also had at least one other replica
buildt some years ago and there was also a replica buildt
(don't remember the builder) for Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick. 

Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

[senmen]

Oh and Amptech:
Your build really nails the originality!
Great!

Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

[amptech]

Oh and Amptech:
Your build really nails the originality!
Great!

Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

Thanks, but I must admit I used a four in line headstock design. I did put metal knob banjo tuners on it for the look,
but that means using it in studio and rehearsal only. There is no way I enter a stage with a banjo tuner loaded bass! 

[Bionic-Joe]

It's for sale!!!!!


https://reverb.com/item/83134761-gibson-explorer-bass-prototype-mid-1990-s-korina?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=83134761

[uwe]

Even that crazy German guy in all his köllekshün frenzy of yore would have passed on this one. Mine was from the 80ies, also a Gibson Custom Shop one-off, same look (except for the pups) and cost me between 3.000 and 4.000 bucks - I thought that was already expensive back then. At least it sounded nice though one can question the wisdom of producing an Explorer in short scale - certain shapes (TBird, Explorer and Flying V among them) cry for a long neck IMHO. Yes, the first one was a short scale too with a modified EB 2 neck via a scarfed-joined Explorer headstock, but that was at a time when Gibson did nothing but short scale with its basses!

I like Jason Momoa and thought the first Aquaman wasn't that bad (the second one was really murdered in its flow by cutting out as much of Amber Heard's screen time as possible), but this is a price tag more fit for an original of Poseidon's/Neptune's trident.