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Mirror, mirror on the wall (you have two votes) ...

Easy, Ray Dietrich rules: original Thunderbird (Reverse)
24 (27%)
Naw, I like ugly things for the heck of it: Thunderbird (Non-Reverse)
11 (12.4%)
Nothing says rock like an Explorer!
4 (4.5%)
Meee, I like EBeees/SGeees ... (as in SG style EB-0, -3, -4, -Z and SG Bass) they're the sunshine of my love!
13 (14.6%)
Fat-bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round: Grabber/Ripper/G-3
3 (3.4%)
Mainly because ze krauts kän't pronounz it pröperly: Flying "V"
0 (0%)
I like it when Gibson steals and then thinks better of it with the headstock: Victory
1 (1.1%)
If it ain't hollow, it ain't no bass: EB-2, LP Signature, EB 335 and stuff ...
6 (6.7%)
If only Paul had played the real thing: original EB/EB-1
3 (3.4%)
RDeees are my personal nirvana ...
5 (5.6%)
Hell, I'm a failed guitarist: Les Paul (Singlecut), whether hobbit or 90ies ...
9 (10.1%)
Hollow, but singlecut: EB-650/EB-750
0 (0%)
I'm a failed guitarist too, but hide it cleverly: Mon(k)ey Bass/SG Doublecut
1 (1.1%)
The solitary beauty: Doublecut LP Junior shape (as on the original EB-0), this vote is reserved for Dave W!
6 (6.7%)
Earthlings, I am a superior life form: 20/20!!!
2 (2.2%)
Because somebody has to like them: Those new EB Basses with the Babicz hardware.
1 (1.1%)

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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #45 on: May 15, 2015, 05:40:55 PM »
I voted for the Hobbit & the hollow bodied basses, but I would have liked to have added the EB-1 & the 20/20 also.................. I want a recount!!!
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #46 on: May 15, 2015, 08:09:18 PM »
Uwe didn't give me my options, but just to be clear -

The two I'd pick are the 335-bass and the SG-bodied EB-0. Both classics, both practically perfect in look and function.
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #47 on: May 16, 2015, 12:06:09 AM »
Use options 4 and (nearest to 335) 8, Al... that's your EB0 and EB2 slots...
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #48 on: May 16, 2015, 01:10:05 AM »
Quote from: mc2NY on May 15, 2015, 03:13:21 PM
a warm spot for the original EBO (although Hamer did them better :)

Yeah, but their PUPs look like crap and are mounted on the wrong place .........  ;)
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #49 on: May 16, 2015, 02:45:55 AM »
Hey, Uwe, that's a fantastic painting of EP and the Girl from the Lapland country. Is there anywhere else on the net where I can find it?
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #50 on: May 16, 2015, 05:03:58 AM »
Quote from: Stjofön Big on May 16, 2015, 02:45:55 AM
Hey, Uwe, that's a fantastic painting of EP and the Girl from the Lapland country. Is there anywhere else on the net where I can find it?
http://www.markkulaakso.com/galleria2004-06.php
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #51 on: May 16, 2015, 05:12:30 AM »
I would like to add this -

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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #52 on: May 16, 2015, 06:19:57 AM »
Quote from: ilan on May 16, 2015, 05:03:58 AM
http://www.markkulaakso.com/galleria2004-06.php

Oh my! I was thinking why does poor Ilan of all people here have to stumble across a site that at first sight seems to echo Nazi art after I had first posted a pic I had found when I googled "Lapland" - those nudes are too close for comfort for me to Leni Riefenstahl photography and other "Aryan" art like this here.




But once you look closer, you see that while the artist heavily cites "Germanische Kunst" (which was influenced by romantic Scandinavian art no doubt) he happily does so tongue in cheek, not only on the paintings with Elvis. There is also more than a bit of Helmut Newton in it.



PS: Explanation for our younger as well as American viewers: That is, yes, pubic hair those ladies sport.
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #53 on: May 16, 2015, 06:29:00 AM »
Quote from: ilan on May 16, 2015, 05:12:30 AM
I would like to add this -



Much appreciated, Ilan.  ;)

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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #54 on: May 16, 2015, 07:55:56 AM »
Don't you love it when the neighborhood girls just sit around the yard nude? 
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #55 on: May 16, 2015, 10:38:19 AM »
Weeeeelll... never knew Elvis had been around my areas.... At least he left them reindeers alone... And the bears... And the birds... Whoops, that he did not, I understand! Well, the reindeers, and the bears, he left alone...
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #56 on: May 16, 2015, 11:55:42 AM »
Quote from: TBird1958 on May 13, 2015, 03:38:54 PM

 Well, as your Queen I 'm somewhat predictable - you know I love Thunderbirds above all. I added it's endearing ugly/way cool sister the RD as a second.

However, as I age disgracefully and realize I won't be prancing around in a miniskirt onstage forever I think one each of these would be very nice.



Great choice! And I agree. I'd love to pick one up.
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #57 on: May 16, 2015, 02:17:34 PM »
I voted SG-shape. I still love that shape (and think I voted the same last time around). I like it even more since I got hold of an SG-Z last year (it looks great in Ebony finish). Second vote is LP, just because both the Triumph and Standard are great basses.
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #58 on: May 16, 2015, 02:29:19 PM »
Quote from: uwe on May 16, 2015, 06:29:00 AM
Much appreciated, Ilan.  ;)

Fins, Uwe... Fins... :mrgreen:
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Re: The mother of all polls: Nicest Gibson design used for bass, visually speaking??
« Reply #59 on: May 17, 2015, 07:18:59 AM »
Quote from: OldManC on May 16, 2015, 11:55:42 AM
Great choice! And I agree. I'd love to pick one up.

The IV was a really good bass, but would be visually more appealing with a 4 in line headstock.
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