Ou7shined Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 It's got it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 free record!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Got to be Photoshopped... Jeff Berlin doesn't play a Gibson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime_BASS Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Bass ads these days seem to think we are all sissies who listen to "you me at six" who ever they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan2112 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Now that's a real man with a real mustache!!! But also, a ripper with EBO pickups? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 How many more times? Spinal tap THEN puppet show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 [quote name='Ou7shined' post='1210539' date='Apr 25 2011, 12:15 AM']It's got it all. [/quote] MB1. "It'll cure that ring of fire for ya too?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 I'd give money to see that guy's 'tache 'ripped' off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 (edited) [quote]A 4-position sound switch. A mid-range control. Tone and volume controls. It may sound complicated, but it isn't.[/quote] Just priceless. Thank you so much for posting this. Edited April 25, 2011 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysP Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 He'd still pass as fashionable in Wales. And let's be honest; no matter how terrible he looks the bass is 1000 times worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Was he in Molly Hatchett? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huw Foster Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 After reading that sales pitch does anyone else immediately want one, or am I too impressionable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 [quote name='Huwberry' post='1211276' date='Apr 25 2011, 10:30 PM']After reading that sales pitch does anyone else immediately want one, or am I too impressionable?[/quote] No, I'm GASsing for that shirt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janmaat Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 close contender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2112 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 [quote name='janmaat' post='1211280' date='Apr 25 2011, 10:35 PM']close contender [/quote] Yeah, why engineer some of the best cars in the world when you could be looking at pictures of sturdy women holding Esh basses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted April 25, 2011 Author Share Posted April 25, 2011 [quote name='Huwberry' post='1211276' date='Apr 25 2011, 10:30 PM']After reading that sales pitch does anyone else immediately want one, or am I too impressionable?[/quote] I used to have one ('til it got nicked) playing in a grunge band back at the start of the 90s... loved it. I seem to remember having a crack at the moustache too... it looked like one of my eyebrows had come down for a drink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted April 25, 2011 Author Share Posted April 25, 2011 [quote name='Chris2112' post='1211290' date='Apr 25 2011, 10:47 PM']Yeah, why engineer some of the best cars in the world when you could be looking at pictures of sturdy women holding Esh basses?[/quote] Don't fancy yours much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 That Ripper ad reminds me how thankful I was that punk came along... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 [quote name='BigRedX' post='1211455' date='Apr 26 2011, 09:11 AM']That Ripper ad reminds me how thankful I was that punk came along...[/quote] Right on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Well at least he lost the naff shirt, jacket and what were undoubtedly flared jeans... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozbass Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Cool as f**k - I too bought a Ripper just to get laid. Dan2112 beat me to it - what are the pickups? The ad makes a lot of them but they're certainly not the type that appear in my Ripper (an early one - probably '74). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 (edited) To my mind, the 70's guy (let's call him Jeff) looks more suited to our tempestuous and troubled times than the two doughy dullards in 'homogenized metaller black'. Think about it. Jeff looks like he's having a good time. Jeff's eyes gleam. Jeff's moustache is full and luxuriant. Jeff's hair is bouncy and elegantly coiffed. Jeff's threads are bright and sparkly and - well - friendly. Jeff's weight does not exceed that of his band's touring PA. It all suggests a man at ease with himself. Adam and Jason (for those are their names) are a different matter. Their eyes convey a self-important stupidity. Their faces are pouchy. Adam has bingo wings. Jason is clearly busting to hang a colossal rat. Adam and Jason affect that ubiquitous hard-man scowl that says "Talk to me and I'll get my 'entourage' to give you a kicking". They are endorsees and thus quite clearly total breadheads. They are a summation of all that is wrong with society in general and our bass-playing community in particular. Jeff is a man for our times. Jeff would tell you that dope gets you through times of no money better than money gets you through times of no dope. Jeff would point out that we all have to work together to stick it to the man. Jeff would let you sleep on his couch and he'd square it with his 'old lady'. We need guys like Jeff. He's a dude. Edited April 26, 2011 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 It's probably a prototype. The advert spiel talks of pickups designed specially for and only for the Ripper, which the actual ones of course were. Sales - "Where's the Ripper?" R&D - "Here it is but it's not quite..." [i]Ripper is ripped out of hands and away[/i] R&D - "...ready. Oh well." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 [quote name='skankdelvar' post='1211540' date='Apr 26 2011, 11:14 AM']To my mind, the 70's guy (let's call him Jeff) looks more suited to our tempestuous and troubled times than the two doughy dullards in 'homogenized metaller black'. Think about it. Jeff looks like he's having a good time. Jeff's eyes gleam. Jeff's moustache is full and luxuriant. Jeff's hair is bouncy and elegantly coiffed. Jeff's threads are bright and sparkly and - well - friendly. Jeff's weight does not exceed that of his band's touring PA. It all suggests a man at ease with himself. Adam and Jason (for those are their names) are a different matter. Their eyes convey a self-important stupidity. Their faces are pouchy. Adam has bingo wings. Jason is clearly busting to hang a colossal rat. Adam and Jason affect that ubiquitous hard-man scowl that says "Talk to me and I'll get my 'entourage' to give you a kicking". They are endorsees and thus quite clearly total breadheads. They are a summation of all that is wrong with society in general and our bass-playing community in particular. Jeff is a man for our times. Jeff would tell you that dope gets you through times of no money better than money gets you through times of no dope. Jeff would point out that we all have to work together to stick it to the man. Jeff would let you sleep on his couch and he'd square it with his 'old lady'. We need guys like Jeff. He's a dude.[/quote] Skank, you da man! You're wasted here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 [quote name='SteveK' post='1211549' date='Apr 26 2011, 11:24 AM']You're wasted here.[/quote] I'm wasted everywhere. All the time. You dig me, mah man? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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