Identify this bass guitar - it won't be easy

[ac100X]

Can anyone identify this bass guitar, it's from 1966, the band is "The Untamed" (never heard of them). I Know it looks like a Burns Bison on steroids. Some one off? ....or some European unknown brand? It's not too often I see a bass that I have never seen before.

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[Dan Knowlton]

Looks like a Burns Bison Bass to me...

 

[ac100X]

Yea, I own a reissue. This ones got bigger horns.

 

[mongo2]

Don't know if this helps but according to the site linked below their bassist in 1965 was Jez Loveland.

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[wizerd]

Very early Sire M7

 

[Jeff Scott]

An early prototype of a Sukop bass?

 

[5StringBlues]

This had been today's Bisontennial minute.

 

[LBS-bass]

I think the angle makes it very hard to correctly gauge the size of the horns on that bass. But if you look at the tip of each horn and draw a line from each to the fretboard, you can get a pretty good idea of how it compares to the Burns. I'd say it's a fairly good chance they are one and the same.

 

[BobKos]

The pickup looks slanted unlike the Bison bass. But the similarities are there so I'm speculating

 

[gln1955]

Not a Bison unless heavily modded. Different pickups, controls, pick guard, headstock and bridge.

 

[LBS-bass]

Not a Bison unless heavily modded. Different pickups, controls, pick guard, headstock and bridge.

Did they make other models? I don't know... just wondering.

 

[gln1955]

Did they make other models? I don't know... just wondering.

I admit I had to Google Bison bass, and saw different versions, but none like this.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

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Weird video... no moshpit, no crowd surfing, what's going on, is everyone sedated?

On a different point, in the shot of the bass at the end those horns look huge and way bigger than a Burns.

 

[yodedude2]

that still image in the 1st post makes the neck look very narrow. i bet they had to slant the neck pickup just to get the strings over the pole pieces. perhaps it's a home-brew (a-la brian may) bass based on or inspired by a burns bison?

 

[kodiakblair]

The pickup looks slanted unlike the Bison bass. But the similarities are there so I'm speculating

Burns Jazz bass had slanted pickups.

 

[kodiakblair]

Better shot of the bass in question.

It's a Burns Jazz

 

[LBS-bass]

Better shot of the bass in question.

It's a Burns Jazz

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Burns for the win!

 

[frankie5string]

The horns look too long for a Burns Jazz in the video...
I'm betting it's an early 60s Burns Bison which would have had the larger horns and would have been long-scale.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Better shot of the bass in question.

It's a Burns Jazz

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I'm not at all convinced that's the bass in the video...

 

[gln1955]

Better shot of the bass in question.

It's a Burns Jazz

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Did you watch the video? That is not the same bass.