Which bass is this?

[Annoying Twit]

Which bass is it at the beginning of this youtube clip?

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yu3RG80lU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yu3RG80lU[/url]

[BigRedX]

Looks like a copy of an Ampeg Scroll bass. Most likely an [url="http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/"]Eastwood EUB-1[/url]. Definitely not the Italia Imola as the headstock is wrong. I don't think it's the real thing (or the really good Johnson copy) because the bridge doesn't look right.

[BottomEndian]

Looks like one of the Ampeg fretless basses from the 60s.

[BigRedX]

Having looked into this further it might well be a real Ampeg. However it looks like the revised version - AMUB-1 rather than the original AUB-1.

[BottomEndian]

[url="http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/sos90b.html"]This interview from 1990[/url] mentions "an old 1964 Ampeg fretless bass". I think Ampeg weren't even producing basses yet in 1964, but, y'know... mere details.

[BigRedX]

I'm now pretty sure it's an [url="http://xstrange.com/amb1.html"]Ampeg AMUB-1[/url] from either 1968 or 1969.

The earlier version - the [url="http://xstrange.com/aeb1.html"]AUB-1[/url] didn't start production until 1966 and has a different elongated tail piece/bridge which Eno's bass most obviously doesn't have.