Compare the top horns. I wouldn't call it close enough to be a copy. Plus the Gibson has a set neck and a tilted headstock.
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2017 Gibson EB redesign
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Compare the top horns. I wouldn't call it close enough to be a copy. Plus the Gibson has a set neck and a tilted headstock.
It not revolutionary fer sure. But, I commend Gibson for coming up with a design that might actually be carried in the stores for you to try. I mean, try to find LP bass in a Guitar Center to plug in. Never seen one myself.
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
I'm just glad they decided not to throw the towel in on basses all together.
G&L? I don't see the resemblance (and I'm a diehard G&L fan and user). The pickups are kinda similar, but Gibson has used those for a few years now.
Looks more like they borrowed from Epiphone and the very short-lived Gibson Bunny Brunell basses, with some ESP LTD thrown in for good measure.
Looks like every somewhat generic modern bass design... If I didn't see the head stock I wouldn't know if it's a Yamaha or a cort or who knows whatever else... Seems like a lot to pay for a bass if it has the same thin cheap finish the earlier EB basses had... Don't mind the finish, just wouldn't pay that much for a bass with it... I like the older EB bass much much better...
yeah, let's see how well it's actually constructed - and then compare it to a G&L.
This is true. I think it was the Thunderbird V. Then they backed away from it about as fast as Rickenbacker did. Don't know why.
But in the 90s when 5 string really took off, Gibson ignored that completely while other makers saw that the players were going for it and they made it a standard config.
This new model indicates to me that they are listening to modern players and what they want. And then doing it. Full scale, balanced, tappable pups, 5string, 24 frets, you see what I mean. Stuff the boutique guys have been doing for years. Stuff Ibanez has been doing for years, for gosh sake. Gibson is listening and trying to meet the market. Good on 'em. Somebody tell John Hall. I do wish it looked more like a Victory bass than a G&L, but hey, they're in the business of selling units, not making museum pieces.
I'm guessing a Gibson summer intern was given the assignment to design the new Gibson "Bass" and he forgot about it until his last day there and turned this in. Need to change it from EB to EG for El Generico. Oh and MEH!
I am sure this has been said prior, but I think I have seen that overall design before.
And I would find it hard to believe that Gibson could, at this stage in the game, one-up the "real McCoys".
Loved Gibson, even their bases, over the years. But this seems like a last-ditch effort on their part.
( now, talking out of the other side of my mouth, I am glad I scored one of the last 2015 SG models with the Babicz bridge...
And I would find it hard to believe that Gibson could, at this stage in the game, one-up the "real McCoys".
Loved Gibson, even their bases, over the years. But this seems like a last-ditch effort on their part.
( now, talking out of the other side of my mouth, I am glad I scored one of the last 2015 SG models with the Babicz bridge...
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Hard to say until someone has played and reviewed it. The sunburst version looks all dinged up on its edges. Perhaps a "vintage effect".
I imagine what will sell the bass is the balance, and the feel of the neck. Many of the SG fans say it is their favorite bass neck.
I imagine what will sell the bass is the balance, and the feel of the neck. Many of the SG fans say it is their favorite bass neck.
When I think of Gibson basses or guitars I think of them being insanely cool-looking in a timeless way. This just looks like a bass.
Price seems fine though, and maybe this is just designed to keep them floating in the bass market while they relaunch some old lines.
Price seems fine though, and maybe this is just designed to keep them floating in the bass market while they relaunch some old lines.
Yeah. Everyone's saying G&L, but it looks just like a mid '90s Carvin to me.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
So the need to introduce a new model so they can relaunch what they had been making for half a century?
No idea what Gibson's strategy is but its obviously been failing, they might be rethinking how they go about selling basses.
