AC/DC bass

[Freuds_Cat]

Mark Evans commenting on this pic:

The bass is a Gibson L9 S, called The Ripper. Great bass, very underestimated, loads of growl. Had a varitone switch which gave you 4 pickup options, 3 sucked, one sounds HUGE.

[TBird1958]

He's playing it in "Long way to the top" but you only catch the occasional short glimpse, that's a cool bass, I really like the burst.

[Basvarken]

Here's Live Wire with the same bass

[Freuds_Cat]

Here's a shot of Rob Riley  and Geordie Leach. (Rose Tattoo)

[Denis]

Mark Evans commenting on this pic:

The bass is a Gibson L9 S, called The Ripper. Great bass, very underestimated, loads of growl. Had a varitone switch which gave you 4 pickup options, 3 sucked, one sounds HUGE.

Possibly the most beautiful Ripper of all time. Videos of it in action posted here:

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=6622.0

[TBird1958]

Here's a shot of Rob Riley  and Geordie Leach. (Rose Tattoo)

Ibanez with Gibson parts!   

[TBird1958]

Here's a shot of Rob Riley  and Geordie Leach. (Rose Tattoo)

Ibanez with Gibson parts!   

[sniper]

Here's a shot of Rob Riley  and Geordie Leach. (Rose Tattoo)

gawd!!! my generation, my looks i wanna crawl under a rug and die!!!

[Denis]

Hahaha, your avatar looks like it agrees! 

[Basvarken]

What does this pic with those ugly grand dads from Rose Tattoo have to do with the Ripper from Mark Evans of AC/DC?
(Apart from being used in an Australian rock band)

[Freuds_Cat]

I was gonna say Gibson Basses but then that would be stretching things     Nah, just couldn't be bothered starting a new thread.

[Aussie Mark]

Mark Evans still has that cherryburst Ripper, and plays it regularly in his blues duo here in Sydney with Dave Tice (ex Buffalo frontman)

[uwe]

The official reason they gave Evans for firing him from the three chord wonders was that his backing vocals were not up to par. Not that I would regard his successor to be in the Timothy B. Schmidt league though!

I saw AC/DC with Evans at the time opening for Rainbow. He probably played the Ripper but I have no recollection. I remember three things from that concert, a) I thought them hopeless (and so did the Rainbow audience), dead-certain they would go nowhere,  b) the singer carried the tiny guitarist on his back and c) the only song remotely approaching having a chorus was It's a Long Way to the Top. German rock critics chided them as "poor man's Status Quo" at the time, but I thought that was unfair to Quo who had better melodies and a smoother, less heavy-handed groove.