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That appears to be a Classic Pro. It is the Epiphone version of a modern Gibson, except made in Asia and with a poly finish originally instead of nitro. They are just a bit different from a Vintage Pro, which is now a '60s. Yours appears to have been personalized a bit at some point.
That is high on my list of options.
Poetry. I am not being ironic. The Japanese come up with some beautiful and completely expressive uses of English that get the idea across in a musical sounding way that a native speaker would probably never approach.
Good question.. the guy said the newer one was a bit chunkier than the '66 however.
Hard to tell in that lighting if they are 2 different colours. The inverness green and pelham blue could look almost the same under certain lights I suppose.
I agree.. the colour in some of the pictures in this posting look pretty great.
It looks like a really cool axe. Just shared in case you like to keep track of your babies, but it looks like you already know where it's at!
I suspect you’ll love it. Under stage lights it’s awesome. Spector used two different holoflash painting techniques. You got the good one (like mine) where the colors are large and splotchy with some wrinkle effect strewn in vs the worm effect. Without bright lights shining on the holoflash finish the bass will look a dark charcoal grey with black burst edges, but under light it pops and as the viewer or the light or the bass move the colors all continually change. If you play any outdoor daytime gigs take this bass, it goes wild in the sunlight.
Actually there’s a few things going on there. The Greco bass scale is less than the Gibson but still longer than a short scale. The pickups are completely different, much hotter, much more aggressive, very bold and loud. And both pup placements are quite a bit different than the Gibson. The pup placements work really well on the Greco but because of the different scale and the different types of pups it’s hard to determine how much of the great sound is really attributable to just the placement.
Summer Palace in Beijing, beautiful, been there many many times. That, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall should be on everyone’s bucket list.
I love George's (bass) and now there are two here to lust over from time to time!
