Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Here's a double weird one: the original band playing post-band solo material. In the early days, Robert Sledge famously used an Epi LP standard, but for this reunion in 2013, he's got a big-bodied Gibson. I figure it's the product of endorsement; note Ben's Baldwin piano. Robert actually auctioned off his original Epi that's on all the albums on eBay and it went for around $600.

[Basvarken]

Nice playing. Nice tone!

The left hand on the piano and the bass guitar do tend to flam here and there.

[gearHed289]

Here's a double weird one: the original band playing post-band solo material. In the early days, Robert Sledge famously used an Epi LP standard, but for this reunion in 2013, he's got a big-bodied Gibson. I figure it's the product of endorsement; note Ben's Baldwin piano. Robert actually auctioned off his original Epi that's on all the albums on eBay and it went for around $600.

Pretty sure that's a regular bodied LP with the Warwick bridge and tailpiece. I remember seeing these guys on Conan or smething years ago, and he was laying down some cool fuzz riffs on a Les Paul.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I watched and stopped the video a few times and couldn't decide if it was big body or not, (hard to tell when you don't know the relative size of the player) but the Warwick bridge is obvious. I forgot they weren't used on the big ones. I discovered Ben Folds  20+ years ago after a write up in some guitar magazine because Ben used to put his piano, via a pickup, through a Marshall stack.  Most of the early stuff was cut when they were all dirt poor on a red Epi Paul, and it appeared that after the first success with "Brick", they all got endorsement instruments. Even all of the oldest videos have Sledge with a Gibson, but if you look up their earliest shows, it's the Epi. I was surprised the bass didn't go for more on eBay, but I think most of Fold's current hipster fans could care less about the bass. It even came with a hardshell case. I think he may have sold off one of his SVT's too, which is how I found the bass auction.

[Highlander]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYyRI-f7Vk

[Basvarken]

Dutch band The Buffoons.

[Dave W]

You don't see Richie Valens covers that often.

[Basvarken]

You don't see this model Les Paul Bass that often!

[Granny Gremlin]

I gotta say: Longhorns work much better for me as a guitar than a bass. 

[Rob]

I gotta say: Longhorns work much better for me as a guitar than a bass.

Me 2 but they were good when tracked against uprights in early R&R

[Dave W]

Longhorn basses are fine with me. No shortage of low end. Billy Bacon comes to mind.

[Granny Gremlin]

I mean aesthetically.  They look so dang stoopid.  They sound a'ight. 

[Dave W]

They are awkward looking.

[westen44]

The Longhorn, although unusual looking, does seem to be popular with a number of people, though.  But I prefer the much lesser known Hodad.  I got one of these about a month ago from MF, right before they were discontinued.  The metallic blue looks way better than I was expecting.  And like the article says, it plays well and sounds good, too.  I've only played a Longhorn once in a music store, but I did like the way it sounded, too. 


http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/bass/danelectro-hodad-bass-569290

[slinkp]

I have loved the DC model since I got it ten or so years ago, and I find it aesthetically much nicer than the Hodad.  Silver sparkle!