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Felix Pappalardi anyone?
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Very different pickup. Actually not a 'mudbucker' at all despite looking si.ilar.
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Felix was a massive influence on me in my early bass playing days. In fact, I was in a band that played a shedload of Mountain covers - I used an EB-0 though, through a 200 watt HiWatt head and two 4x12’s. I thought it was the dog’s bollox, to be honest. I thought that I was too, but that’s another story....
- Feb 16, 2008
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it works okay. i never had problem with them. i had a '68 with the nylon saddle intonateable bridge and it was great but i prefer the fatter necks on the earlier ones (65 and before) so i sold it and bought a 2007 SG bass that has a fatter neck than my '68.
my '68:
my '07 SG bass:
Nice basses. I remember in High School when my friend bought an SG guitar, in 1982, they said it was a '68 and now I remember I had a hard time playing it not just cuz of the bridge setup, but the neck was very thin through the middle and very uncomfortable with my big hands. He said it was great for his small hands. Is that right? Would a '68 SG guitar have had a thin neck like the basses in '68?
Generally speaking...yes, these necks are thinner.
Gibson changed the neck joint for the series II SG guitars and EB-0/3 basses at some point in 1967. The nut on EBs also went from 1.6" (or a bit more) to 1.5" which will remain for the life of the series.
I've owned a *lot* of SGs and thin-necked Series II (1967-1970 with a double sided pickguard) are my favourites by far. Not surprisingly, EBs from the same era - like the one in my avatar - are also my preference.
Here's my 65 EB-3 and yes I also like the earlier chunkier necks. I have since cleaned it up, may get it painted too, It was stripped years before I bought it.
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Yes. His has a black pickguard with white trim. I guess that's what you mean by double-sided?
This is what I meant
The pickups, knobs and tremolo/tailpiece may differ but this is what Series II looks like
Ah, I get it now. Sorry, I've never owned a Gibson and don't know much about them. This is what his looks like. Maybe it's not a '68?
When I had this built in 07 ... it was designed to be a modern take on the EB, but with a 34 inch scale neck.
The guy in the music store probably hood-winked us cuz we were 14 years old! Haha. I think you're right. I just looked up some pics of Late 70's SG's. I think he paid 500 bucks Canadian for it in 1982. Is that about the right price? I remember he didn't like how close the jack was to the knob. He'd hit it sometimes when we were jamming. When he turned the knob, his hand would hit the jack and his Marshall Stack would crackle and buzz!
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Ok. I wouldn't mind trying one of those EB or SG Basses with the thicker neck. Is that how Jack Bruce got that thick, muddy sound, with those humbuckers? Never tried a Bass with a humbucker.
Yep. He also had a small circuit - a couple of diodes I believe - added so he could overdrive the amp at lower power. But any EB will get you in that ballpark, especially with a vintage amp.
