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Ronnie James Dio Gibson EB-0 bass

Discussion in 'Bassists [BG]' started by starjag, Jun 13, 2020.

  1. Jun 13, 2020 #1
    starjag

    starjag Supporting Member

    Dec 3, 2019
    Southern Ontario, Canada
    First time seeing these pictures. Dio could sing, no question about that. But there's really not much info about his bass playing. I guess he cared enough that he substantially modded his bass. Any ideas what the mods were/are? Are they some sort of jazz pickups? What about the toggles?

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  2. Jun 13, 2020 #2
    bobyoung53

    bobyoung53 Supporting Member

    Aug 29, 2004
    Pueblo Libre, Lima, Perú
    That's an early (1956) EB-0, this is an EB, which name changed to EB-1 when it was later reissued because of Felix Pappalardi.:

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  3. Jun 13, 2020 #3
    starjag

    starjag Supporting Member

    Dec 3, 2019
    Southern Ontario, Canada
    EB-0! Thank you. Just edited the thread title.

     
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  4. Jun 13, 2020 #4
    bobyoung53

    bobyoung53 Supporting Member

    Aug 29, 2004
    Pueblo Libre, Lima, Perú

    I would imagine people just naturally think the EB-0 was the first because of the zero but the EB was the first, most people call all of them EB-1's but they didn't get that name until the reissue and by then the EB-0 was already out so they had to name it the EB-1. The EB-2 is basically an ES-335 bass and the EB-3 is an EB-0 with two pickups.

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