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08-09-2012, 03:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Kalmthout, Belgium (Europe) | | | New Gibson Bass in 2013
I've read this on "teh interwebz"... 
The thing is called Gibson EBF... Features a Babicz bridge (the guy holding the bass is the owner of Babicz), and has the pickups of the new G3 bass, but wired together as a humbucker...
I don't know what to think of it!
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08-09-2012, 03:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Same old thing I always ask...
5 string version?
All these dinosaur companies keep feeding us 1973 over and over again!
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08-09-2012, 05:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Edinburgh, UK | | | My instant visual reaction - Peavey T40! |
08-09-2012, 05:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Grand Rapids MI | | | Hmm. Not sure about it. I bet it's going to be really expensive though. |
08-09-2012, 05:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Edinburgh, UK | | | I'd have expected a new design to have a 24 fret neck (or 22 at least) |
08-09-2012, 05:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Milan, Italy | | | an horrible G&L
aka
body of a Precision (but in ash)
dual humbucker off a MusicMan
ugly
to say the least
Cheers,
Wallace
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08-09-2012, 05:49 AM
| | Reggaefied User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | If that's true, I can only shake my head in wonder. Not an aesthetic triumph IMO. |
08-09-2012, 06:09 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitoba, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by One Drop If that's true, I can only shake my head in wonder. Not an aesthetic triumph IMO. | Pretty much like many boutique basses in that regard, imo.
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08-09-2012, 06:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Fairfax, VA | | | I wonder if anyone at Gibson is an actual bass player?
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08-09-2012, 06:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mid-Atlantic USA. | | | I'd hit that, but it'll probably be too expensive. |
08-09-2012, 06:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Boston | | I dig it looks kinda like an old mosrite  |
08-09-2012, 06:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | No matter what "new" and "innovative" Gibson and Fender (for that matter) introduce by way of body style will always be maligned. There's a P-bass, Jazz Bass, Thunderbird, Ripper/Grabber expectation and that's it. I think that's OK. If you want something other than those four options, you go Ric and then onto everyone else. I like that they are trying something new. I'm rooting for 'em. I love that I am an all Fender bass guy and a Les Paul guitar guy. |
08-09-2012, 07:09 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Eckie My instant visual reaction - Peavey T40! | Mixed with a tele bass. Gross. |
08-09-2012, 07:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | | It looks they they took a Fender Musicmaster (?) and slapped a Gibby neck on it.
That's one expensive boat oar. |
08-09-2012, 07:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cary, Il | | | What happened to the rule about not calling any bass ugly???
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08-09-2012, 07:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mdogs What happened to the rule about not calling any bass ugly??? | Oops. I never knew. I'll have to watch myself in the future. Thank you.
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08-09-2012, 07:31 AM
|  | My SQUIER is on Fire! | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City USA | | | Ummm... again. Gibson.... guitars? Yes! Basses No!
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08-09-2012, 07:42 AM
|  | Unregistered existentialist | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Denver, Colorado | | | Henry J. continues his campaign to destroy a once-great company. Sad.
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08-09-2012, 07:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Murray I wonder if anyone at Gibson is an actual bass player? | Neck heavy+fragile headstock and they're not cheap. Sometimes I wonder if they're making fun of us. |
08-09-2012, 07:43 AM
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Endorsing Artist: DR Strings, Walker-Enfield Cases | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: La Jolla, Kalifornia | | | I was checking out my local music store the other day and saw a Gibson Explorer ($899).....looked cool as hell - until I picked it up------heavy as hell!
I have never gotten the deal with Gibson. Great guitars - pretty MEH basses.....
I actually hadn't held a heavy bass like that since the early 80s with my Ovation Magnum.....another heavy brute!
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