Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[westen44]

Despite the keys being dominant, you can still hear that bass pretty well. 

[Dave W]

Felix is more heard than seen here. You can catch him just after the :50 mark.

[Basvarken]

John Entwistle with his "modified" EB

[Stjofön Big]

Hey, Rob! What is that thing Entwhistle's playing in that vid? Can't be a slaughtered Eb0, right?

[Basvarken]

I think it is. Looks like an EB (the violin shaped one) or EB0 (the LP JR DC) that got a new body shape. Probably a Peter Cook creation.
I've seen pics of it that looked a bit dodgy (photoshopped?). But this video shows it was for real.

I'm no Entwistle connaisseur, so I don't know the story on this one.

[Highlander]

1975... certainly in the PC era so almost certainly one of his but can not find a sniff of this one... it's a shorty so prob an experiment and got moved on quickly... that all mine was at a best guess...

[gearHed289]

I'll check the book later, but from what I recall, it's basically a re-bodied EB-1, pickguard and all. I think he was duped into believing it was an actual Gibson, though I might be thinking of the V...

[Basvarken]

Thank you Tom
those were the pics I remembered., but I couldn't find them online.
I always thought they were photoshopped. The shadows look weird.
And the bridge of the V looks incomplete.

But apparently the basses were for real.

[gearHed289]

Here's a shot from the book.

[Basvarken]

Thank you Tom!

[Highlander]

Don't think we've had this one... early variant EBO...

[gearHed289]

Don't think we've had this one... early variant EBO...

Nice, thanks. Man, even then, that bass was already 20 years old.

[uwe]

Is that the Sales Brothers, i.e. Tony and Hunt Sales as the rhythm section? They are/were brilliant, telepathic in the way they played together as brothers - with Tin Machine they would play the weirdest, unheard-of breaks that seemed guaranteed to crash the songs, yet they were alway back on the one. Some of it was so convoluted, you couldn't help thinking that they are fighting with each other as siblings and rolling down a staircase entangled. But they would always get back up unscathed. I've never before and never ever after heard a rhythm section like that. I was gobsmacked at the Tin Machine gig.

[Dave W]

Are we sure that's a Gibson? The sweep of the curve and the shape of the horns doesn't look quite right for a DC Junior. I'm not going to pore through the footage though.

I'm still a fan of the Sales Brothers' dad.

[Highlander]

Think I found a better quality copy of the same clip...



Took a capture of the bass at one point...