Geezer Butler signature EMG pickups

[hieronymous]

Nice video introducing Geezer Butler's signature EMG pickups:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcKRho-h2_c&feature=c4-overview&list=UUuokdzT3JWGwFT9LdRLYwhw

I like it because it has some footage from recent live Sabbath - I saw them last summer live for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Highlander]

Good grief... it was the 70's when I last saw Ozzy...

[hieronymous]

Good grief... it was the 70's when I last saw Ozzy...

Narrowly missed seeing Ozzy in Tokyo on the Bark at the Moon tour - dad wouldn't let me go!     (it wasn't as bad as all that, we were flying back from the US the same day, there's probably no way I would have been able to stay awake!) - also missed seeing Black Sabbath (probably with Tony Martin) because of a snowstorm (I should have gone!) - so it was to see them, with Ozzy no less!

I like the footage of Geezer in the video - wish there was more!

[gweimer]

I saw them on the Volume IV tour.  They even brought a piano for "Changes"

[SKATE RAT]

i love Geezer, but wouldn't touch EMG's with a 10 foot pole

[hieronymous]

i love Geezer, but wouldn't touch EMG's with a 10 foot pole

That would be my normal response as well - something different about these?

[patman]

Don't know if it's the pickups or not...but he sounds pretty damn good to me. I love the EMG Select in my P bass...it's so old, it's got grooves in the pickup, and all lettering and texture is worn off. I don't like their active stuff, but I would certainly try anything of theirs that is passive.

[lowend1]

Don't know if it's the pickups or not...but he sounds pretty damn good to me. I love the EMG Select in my P bass...it's so old, it's got grooves in the pickup, and all lettering and texture is worn off. I don't like their active stuff, but I would certainly try anything of theirs that is passive.

Likewise. My main bass has an EMG Select P and a "blackie" Thunderbird. Wasn't crazy about the J pickup that came with the PJ set, so in went the Gibson.

[amptech]

i love Geezer, but wouldn't touch EMG's with a 10 foot pole

Ditto. I have a mid 80´s active EMG PJ set, which came with my first Fender P bass.

I´d love to get rid of them, but if I sell them I will go undercover. The ad will be like:
´Free EMG PJ set, if the new owner never tells anybody where he got them´

[Hörnisse]

EMG's sound great in my '89 Concert Bass.  I also loved the tone the EMG-SS pickups had in the original L2 Steinberger basses.  Plus you don't have to worry about being grounded and touching a hot mic.





The original EMG pickups, with the large "EMG" embossed over the top of the pickups, are some of the best sounding pickups.  Of course all of the older brown an tan epoxied examples sound better (to me) than the current offerings.

[Granny Gremlin]

i love Geezer, but wouldn't touch EMG's with a 10 foot pole

That would be my normal response as well - something different about these?

Same here, but these are sounding pretty good to me in th the demo vid.  Nice and growly.  ...I just have no use for a P pup... or a J.

[SKATE RAT]

hey Hornisse, can you post some better pics of that Jackson? is that set neck?

[Hörnisse]

hey Hornisse, can you post some better pics of that Jackson? is that set neck?

It is neck though.  Ebony board with bound neck and body.  The body is a slab body but has the belly contour.  I just got it recently on Ebay dirt cheap with the original Jackson case.

[Highlander]

Roberto, you lucky bugga...

[SKATE RAT]

very nice, i have never really looked into Jacksons but this is real nice. great color too.