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

[ilan]

Nice!

[westen44]

Outstanding!  I had never seen that video of Jack before. 

[westen44]

I can't understand most of this, but it's obviously some kind of discussion about the Moontan album.  Rinus Gerritsen is playing a Gibson here just like on the album.  Starting at 1:13.

[ilan]

Greg Arama kills on his EB3, bass solo included, in 1970 with the Amboy Dukes, eating up the whole mix and drowning a 22-years-old Theodore Anthony Nugent and his pre-relic'ed Byrdland and BIG HAIR. Poor Ted choked on the mud 

[Alanko]

Something odd happening in the cutaway of that Byrdland. The the binding looks good, but the wood looks knocked in.

[slinkp]

Am I nuts, or is there no A string on that EB3?

[Alanko]

Black tapewound A, I think.

[Dave W]

Or one of those coated roundwound sets.

[ilan]

Something odd happening in the cutaway of that Byrdland. The the binding looks good, but the wood looks knocked in.

Looks like a cutaway stinger. Gibson paints stingers in the volute area as a special treat. Never seen one inside a cutaway, but Byrdlands are special.

His '62 doesn't have it.

[Alanko]

Mismatching strings seems to have happened a bit with the Rivoli the Yardbirds employed.





At a guess, if you broke a string on the road you had few options. Factory original strings, as supplied with the bass, then whatever meagre selection was available.

I tried the Rotosound black tapes on my Rivoli briefly but really didn't get what they were about, tonally or in terms of feel.

[Dave W]

I tried the Roto black tapes once. That's all it took. LaBellas and D'addarios are miles better.

[ilan]

I tried the Roto black tapes once. That's all it took. LaBellas and D'addarios are miles better.

Roto Tru Bass 88 were my tapewounds of choice in my black nylon days, both for tone and feel. I had them on my '77 Jazz. They are what you hear on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, btw.

[Alanko]

Roto Tru Bass 88 were my tapewounds of choice in my black nylon days, both for tone and feel. I had them on my '77 Jazz. They are what you hear on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, btw.

Maybe the quality has slipped over time? My set had a weird, clackity plastic tone, acoustically. Amplified they had detuned, springy rattling 'boing' to them. The E string in particular just sent out a weird array of harmonic overtones, with a rumbly undefined fundamental. They felt like a product that had another application, and somebody decided to fit a ball-end and market as a string.


Herbie Flowers was able to master them, but he is a monster player and musician, which maybe helps!

[Dave W]

Lou Reed is on my never, ever listen to list.

[westen44]

Lou Reed is on my never, ever listen to list.

I can unequivocally say I was never a fan.