The Best Gibson Bass...Section 1

[A. D. Fairhurst]

EB's, SB's. Go to part 2 if you can't find your favourite: The Best Gibson Bass...Section 2 Tell me if I've missed one.

 

[pudge]

I kinda like the victory artist.Single p.u and if it was 32" scale it would be just about perfect!

 

[GretschWretch]

Nothing but alphabet soup. Poll is skewed.

At any rate, my vote would go to the Dillion 335-004.

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[A. D. Fairhurst]

Please vote once in each section.

 

[godofthunder59]

Jack Bruce never used a EB0 or played EB3L to the best of my knowledge.

 

[Gaolee]

An EB2-d with a Dimarzio One is the best sounding bass I own. It's a player, not a collector, because the pickup got changed sometime way back in the '70s or maybe even '60s, and it's missing its pickguard. The wiring got butchered a bit when they put in the Dimarzio. It doesn't matter. It looks the part and it sounds amazing. As a bonus, it's one of the few with no neck repairs and that has an intact, unfaded original transparent red finish. I got lucky with it. I got it back in the early 1980s when it wasn't vintage and nobody wanted Gibson bass guitars at all.

 

[A. D. Fairhurst]

Jack Bruce never used a EB0 or played EB3L to the best of my knowledge.

He didn't use an EB-0; I haven't put him down for using one. I said he used an EB-1. Easy mistake to make! And no, he didn't use an EB-3L. I just grouped it and the standard EB-3 together as they're pretty much the same, save for the neck.

 

[D.M.N.]

To be fair, I think Jack Bruce would be much more associated with the black cover EB-3 than the EB-1. He used a few different early-60s EB-3s, the first was a black cover one with a 3 way toggle, and then I believe there were two silver-cover wide spaced models. He used the EB-1 for the reunion in 2005 (as well as the BBM album).

For EB-1, I'd say the user most associated with it is Felix Pappalardi of Mountain.

 

[Marial]

2013 EB. For me. Not sure if that's an EB -4FL or what, so I didn't vote.

 

[GretschWretch]

For the short-scales, EB2-D all the way. That was the top of the line model. Toss-up between the EB3, the 3-L, and the EB4-L. I have no personal experience with any, but my preference would be for the EB-4L.

 

[A. D. Fairhurst]

To be fair, I think Jack Bruce would be much more associated with the black cover EB-3 than the EB-1. He used a few different early-60s EB-3s, the first was a black cover one with a 3 way toggle, and then I believe there were two silver-cover wide spaced models. He used the EB-1 for the reunion in 2005 (as well as the BBM album).

For EB-1, I'd say the user most associated with it is Felix Pappalardi of Mountain.

Wait, Jack used a black-pickup one? Do you have any pics? (I'm really interested now!)

 

[D.M.N.]

Wait, Jack used a black-pickup one? Do you have any pics? (I'm really interested now!)

Yeah, early EB-3 ('61-'62) featured the same black bakelite cover as used on all the EB lines, but painted silver, thus possible confusion as to users using a black cover or silver cover. This silver paint would eventually flake off, leaving the black cover. From some point in '62 until '65, the EB-3s had Nickel plated pup covers, and thereafter Chrome hardware.

You can see the deteriorating state of the silver paint in the below photos.

Andy Fraser also had an EB-3 with the painted pickup.

 

[A. D. Fairhurst]

Yeah, early EB-3 ('61-'62) featured the same black bakelite cover as used on all the EB lines, but painted silver, thus possible confusion as to users using a black cover or silver cover. This silver paint would eventually flake off, leaving the black cover. From some point in '62 until '65, the EB-3s had Nickel plated pup covers, and thereafter Chrome hardware.

You can see the deteriorating state of the silver paint in the below photos.

Andy Fraser also had an EB-3 with the painted pickup.