Here's me playing my '78 G3 in '84....... I also played it Friday night so yeah they're pretty solid.
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I'm in a similar situation, lots of 70's funk/disco.... Man the Gibson just fits right in the mix.My G3 is getting some stage time these days, playing with a 70s band that prefers era appropriate bass. G3 + 2x15= throbbing hard c###, oops.
Well it is a seventies band
Probably right after dookie or during those sessions (would have to research a bit more.) He did have it during the basket case, longview videos of the dookie album although he record it with a pbass.
I'd say he got it around 1991. I can remember watching a concert from Miami that year and he was playing the G3. Also everything I have read about dookie says that he recorded it with a fender active pj running with just the p pickup, but there are some tracks that you can hear the jazz pickup added and some that just sound like the g3.
haha sorry! as for 1039, i think that was before the G3. i think he used a Peavey during those sessions
I have seen straight Gibson clubs and other model clubs but nothing that goes specifically to these 3 basses....
here are mine from the "old band pics" files...
ignore the white thing (it was only a may 62 jazz in oly white)
let's see these sweet Gibsons!!!!
(oh yeah, don't ask about the cape...i don't remember why!!)
nice cape.
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Learn something new everyday. + i have that album hahaha. So 1039 was peavey, kerplunk was the g3, dookie was an active pbass with just the split p pickup (some songs added the j for bite), & then so forth.
yup. then insomniac with the G3, and then on nimrod and warning he used vintage p-basses, and then after that he used a mix of his custom fenders and vintage fenders on everything i believe
True i forgot insomniac was the G3. But i love his pbass tone better. Well his weapon (vintage 60's bass i believe). g3/grabber/ripper all all different & my order of preference is Ripper-grabber-g3. i just find the g3's tone too thin for my tastes anyway, where it could work for many others such as Dirnt. I love the ripper for it's neck & some tones. It's a monster. The grabber while i love the tone, i hated the contrast between the thin body & the baseball bat neck. Again it works for others. xD
Insomniac was also G3. Nimrod, Warning and probably American Idiot were standard P bass and after that I assume it's his custom 55 body and pickguard/normal pickups bass that the sig model is modelled after. I'm guessing American Idiot was standard P because I don't think he got the custom model until after recording, however it is in the music videos so perhaps he had it before?
Damn. Just saw KyleSerlington's post. Shoulda kept my mouth shut. Sorry Kyle!
The tone Krist Novoselic gets from his natural 74 Ripper on Nevermind is just incredible. I'm going to steal the tone when I get a Ripper...well, if I do. If so, I would prefer a fat bodied one, but I'll get whichever I can take. (And change the pickups to the two-screw variety if it's a three-screw one. I don't like the look.)
It is pretty sick, which is why i'm just gonna build my own ripper (slim bodied with some GFS lipstick tube pickups - cause SD replacements are out of my $$ range). & it'll be blood red all maple w/rosewood board stained black.
I've met you before! You mentioned the Ripper to me a while back. How's it coming?
