"EB P 0L"

[Aussie Mark]

 



http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VINTAGE-1971-GIBSON-EB-OL-BASS-GUITAR-W-LONG-SCALE-NECK_W0QQitemZ310168694442QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item48377eaeaa&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

[Dave W]

Simple solutions for simple minds.    As usual, whoever did it never anticipated the vintage market.

[Chris P.]

Change the split P to black and it's already better. The bass is in a good condition.

[lowend1]

I think the Badass is far more offensive than the pickup - you could always replace the "P" with a second Muddie...

[uwe]

I cannot believe how someone could do something as atrocious to an EB-0L, these basses deserve to be untouched or restored to their original look!  

Regarding restoration to original look, choice of tasteful, not too garish refin is of course paramount, take advice from your local drag queen/style icon/model train enthusiast/Afrika Korps veteran on that:







Evidence of acts of - sigh! - US type lack of gun control violence and vandalism have to be removed, yet commemorated at the same time:







Basses with more than one pup are really, really silly, you know that.





And you don't just stick on some eighties bridge either that almost falls off the butt of this long scale bass with a guitar body,




as there is nothing inherently wrong with the tried and trusted two point tiltomatic, which follows the best tradition of durable Italian engineering:





Once an EB-0L is thus restored to a highly original, albeit inconspicuous look:











... it will give you a lifetime of undiluted playing enjoyment:

[lowend1]

For our baseball fans, that is the rarely-seen "MetsBurst" finish...

[Barklessdog]

Or Denver Bronco buster fin

[exiledarchangel]

Uwe, don't remember if I've already told you, but you're too sexy on that pic.

[uwe]

I have to quickly eat a banana now. 

[exiledarchangel]

Ok, that's enough, I'm changing my avatar NOW!!!

[uwe]

A very curved banana it is too, how did that pass EU Regulations?

[exiledarchangel]

By using "back door" maybe? Who knows!

[uwe]

Back Door is always bass related:





Except that I find Colin Hodkinson's very flat bass sound (its sound setting, not the way he plays bass as such) unremarkable, how much better would that stuff sound with a warm Gibson sound, say my roaring EB-0L from above? Hodkinson floundered with his sound and his style when he was with Whitesnake in the early eighties. Against Cozy Powell's onslaught he could not cut through and he never found a place within Whitesnake's music for all the little runs he can do, he was patently unimaginative as the bass player of Whitesnake or uninspired. Years later he would say: "What shall I say about Whitesnake?! It was very hard work and I was paid well."

[Dave W]

The Badass is offensive not because it's a Badass but because the top was gouged out for it. You can see that clearly in one of the auction pics.

[uwe]

Had to do that for my Ric 8 string too, not to put on a new bridge, but to retain the old one!



Will I go to hell now?