Mine isn't as tiger-striped. That look has been so overdone, it actually devalues it a little.
Re acoustic tone: The ES-LP sounds (
plugged) a lot airier than an EB-2. I always found EB-2s comparatively dead-sounding. Of course, when they came out, no one was concerned with giving a bass a semi-acoustic tone, it was just a body shape Gibson deemed suitable after the EB-1 body had been refused by bassists for being too small (by 1958, when the EB-2 was introduced, the already then 5 year old EB-1 was a failed model). They didn't have many alternatives, the classic Les Paul shape would have been too small as well - compared to the larger dimensions of Fender bass product - and shapes such as the SG or LP Junior (both not ideal either) or the TBird were yet to come, even the more exotic larger body shapes from the Modernist Line (Flying V, Explorer) were not yet out. The EB-2 was a case of "make-do" really, Gibson has a penchant for those types of a "solution" after all!
Unplugged, there is also no comparing the two: The EB-2's top is deadened by (almost) full contact to the sustain block, while the LP-ES sustain block is more akin to the LP Sig one, i.e. no full contact to the top.
I've now done so much propaganda for that model, I really should have gotten mine for free.