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

[uwe]

In 1973, they were at least a decade ahead of their time. A US-Brit group (the rhythm section was UK, everyone else Californian with Spanish and Mexican origin, band leader/guitarist and female were siblings) with strong Iberian ethno-roots and a glam image writing Flamenco-flavored prog-rock tunes + Tony Visconti producing their first two albums!

Strange meters too - you should feel right at home, gringo! 

[slinkp]

it's as futile as posting something from The Sparks, you guys don't "get" them either.

I do! I always liked the few songs I'd heard, and then I watched the Sparks Brothers movie - it's fantastic, highly recommend.

[uwe]

They're an American band for chrisssakes, you all should know them by heart!

[doombass]

Might have been posted previously but anyaway: Kinks and EB-3:

[uwe]

Uncle Bill, with his oh so uncanny knack of squeezing in the unexpected note when no one is watching or expecting, plays a major-keyish bass line to a minor key riff with an EB-3. While the guitars play the A minor pentatonic riff with a minorish C on a revolving basis, Herr Wyman hits a majorish C# whenever the band plays an A (though never when the riff starts) in its riff cycle A, C, D, E, A, G + A, C, D, E, A.  And it works, adding to the Cajun feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hw1SKn5eFM&list=RD9hw1SKn5eFM&start_radio=1

Around the time of Goats Head Soup, he played an EB-3 quite often (though he reputedly didn't really like it in the end).



Even live as this cocaine-crazed version of Street Fighting Man from 1973 shows.

[Dave W]

Early EB-0

[morrow]

I always loved that. Heartbreak to a bright pop melody.
They're a great live band.

[westen44]

I can't make out the name on this SG-shaped bass.  This is a band named Historia, obviously from Italy.  They have a new line-up now, but I like this song they did five years ago with the old line-up. 

[Alanko]

Looks like it has a slot headstock. Bridge pickup appears to be a Maxon type, with 8 fake pole pieces.

[westen44]

It does have a slot headstock.  But the name on the headstock isn't clear. 

[uwe]

With the exception of Ibanez in the lawsuit era, I'm not aware of anyone copying slothead EBs. They came in both short and - if you were willing to pay 15 Marks = 3 % more on/of the recommended retail price for the shorty - long scale.









The Greco copies I've seen weren't slotheads.

[westen44]

I think that may solve the mystery.  It's still not exactly clear, but if you freeze the video at 2:00-2:01 that very well could be Ibanez on the headstock. 

[uwe]

From the 1973 Ibanez catalog:

http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-Catalogs/catalog/1973-3/07.jpg

[uwe]

I think that may solve the mystery.  It's still not exactly clear, but if you freeze the video at 2:00-2:01 that very well could be Ibanez on the headstock.

It's the Ibanez no doubt, at 2:01 I can clearly see the "...ez" on the headstock.

Also, you can actually hear the bass in the recording, so it obviously can't be a real mudbucker!  Not a bad song btw.

[westen44]

It's the Ibanez no doubt, at 2:01 I can clearly see the "...ez" on the headstock.

Also, you can actually hear the bass in the recording, so it obviously can't be a real mudbucker!  Not a bad song btw.

I started watching more recent videos by that band, then worked myself down to older ones like that one.  I immediately liked that song.  Of course it didn't take long to notice that bass.  I knew from Spanish that to die was part of that song title.  It's "I Want To Die Drunk."  The more I listen to Italian rock, the more I'm drawn to the Italian language itself.  It's nice to know what's being said in live performances between songs.  I've always liked Lacuna Coil from years way back, but more recently have discovered newer Italian bands, too.  I'd love to have one of those Ibanez lawsuit era basses, though, like in the video.