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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #105 on: July 16, 2016, 12:13:34 AM »
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.


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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #106 on: July 16, 2016, 02:51:45 AM »
Nice playing. Nice tone!

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

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« Reply #107 on: July 17, 2016, 08:56:45 AM »
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.


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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #108 on: July 17, 2016, 10:14:06 PM »
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.

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #109 on: September 17, 2016, 12:50:51 AM »
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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #110 on: October 20, 2016, 01:22:01 PM »
Dutch band The Buffoons.


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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #111 on: October 20, 2016, 07:14:55 PM »
You don't see Richie Valens covers that often.

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #112 on: October 20, 2016, 10:40:36 PM »
You don't see this model Les Paul Bass that often!

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #113 on: October 21, 2016, 07:34:37 AM »
I gotta say: Longhorns work much better for me as a guitar than a bass. 
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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #114 on: October 21, 2016, 05:38:45 PM »
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

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #115 on: October 21, 2016, 06:20:30 PM »
Longhorn basses are fine with me. No shortage of low end. Billy Bacon comes to mind.

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #116 on: October 22, 2016, 05:43:11 AM »
I mean aesthetically.  They look so dang stoopid.  They sound a'ight. 
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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #117 on: October 22, 2016, 10:31:01 AM »
They are awkward looking.

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #118 on: October 23, 2016, 05:40:37 PM »
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

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Re: Music videos that feature Gibson Les Paul basses...
« Reply #119 on: October 23, 2016, 08:45:12 PM »
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!
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