Re: Music videos that feature Gibson EB-2 and Epi Rivoli basses...

amptech · August 14, 2017, 12:21:29 AM

Hadn't seen that clip - thanks. Colors of chloe is my favourite burton track. The album version is worth checking out for Eberhart's contribution - as well as Goodrick's amazing solo.

uwe · September 22, 2017, 05:01:57 PM

amptech · September 23, 2017, 12:53:39 AM

Cool backstage clip at the end!

Dave W · September 23, 2017, 09:15:43 PM

Gerry always held his Rick so high I was always wondering if he ever hit himself in the jaw with the upper horn.

uwe · October 02, 2017, 04:30:08 PM

Late $:-\$ blond bassist with a banjo tuners early EB-2 ...

Not a real lot of the Wibury Bros left. $:-\$

uwe · October 18, 2017, 04:16:38 PM

Suzi does another Chinn-Chapman song that got misplaced in the mail and should have most likely gone to their other proteges ... Smokie! I can just hear Chris Norman sing it.

Chris P. · February 11, 2019, 02:36:26 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnz4DahuMec&feature=share

New to me....

Granny Gremlin · February 11, 2019, 08:34:32 AM

^ nice one there.

uwe · February 11, 2019, 01:34:06 PM

Quote from: Chris P. on February 11, 2019, 02:36:26 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnz4DahuMec&feature=share

New to me....

What a lovely bassist Foxton was, quirky, groovy ... Weller never comprehended what he lost/gaveup/drove away, no bassist has enhanced his music in a similar way since then.

Chris P. · February 11, 2019, 01:37:02 PM

He had some good bassists though. I love Yolanda Charles on the Live Wood Album. He did not do much with Edgar Summertime/Jones but he was killer live. Minchella too! He played with the Who at Live8. He had some decent bassists around!

The Jam and Bruce is just different and magic.

uwe · February 11, 2019, 01:42:58 PM

None of them put a stamp on his music like Foxton did. But maybe that is exactly the way Weller - a difficult man at the best of times - wanted it.

Basvarken · February 11, 2019, 01:49:42 PM

I was crazy about The Jam when I was in my first class of high school (brugklas in Dutch). Didn't play any bass guitar yet at that age. But in hindsight I'm pretty sure it was the bass of Bruce Foxton that made me love The Jam so much. Just didn't know it back then.

That video that Chris posted once again shows that an EB-2 can be perfectly audible in the mix. Don't let anybody tell you it can't be done. ;-)

Granny Gremlin · February 11, 2019, 02:01:09 PM

Sure, if you use the baritone switch ( sounds like Foxton did to me). Amp eq or eq pedals are usually not deep enough of a cut and to wide bandwidth besides to work well for the purpose of de-mudding and adding punch to a full mud bass sound.

Highlander · February 11, 2019, 02:24:06 PM

Now then, this particular instrument was very nearly mine, back in '78, but Bruce Foxton nipped into the same shop in Hounslow, not far from LHR, shortly after I headed home to borrow the extra £20 to buy her and he bought her for (iirc) £200...
I was gutted...
Then, on the wall, freshly back in for a 2nd time, a year after I first saw her, was this gorgeous cherry red and gold Thunderbird, built by some guy called Peter Cook, going for the Princely sum of £180... £20 cheaper than the Rivoli/EB2/whatever she was... so home she came and I've now owned her for 41 years... often wondered if Bruce still has the Rivoli... or... can someone confirm which this Lady in white is...?

Alanko · February 11, 2019, 02:59:51 PM

A certain Canadian tech, and Youtube Celebrity, has got his mitts on an EB-2.

Not as explosive as his Rickenbacker videos by any stretch, but clearly he doesn't know his way around Gibson basses. I see a poor old EB-2 that needs to go to a proper luthier for a neck reset, not a hack who earns his Youtube advert revenue by ranting away like a broken record.