What is this bass?

[chaypup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoQEPJ5K4G4

O knowlegeable denizens of Basschat, what is this bass being weilded by Colin in the above video?

Thanks.

[neepheid]

Epiphone Newport, I think.

[url="http://www.flyguitars.com/epiphone/bass/1965EpiphoneNewport.php"]http://www.flyguitars.com/epiphone/bass/1965EpiphoneNewport.php[/url]

Edited June 16, 2012 by neepheid

[PURPOLARIS]

Headstock shape G&L ish, Gibson pickup, interesting.

[BarnacleBob]

From an interview BPM 1999

Moulding's Holdings

Colin Moulding's current main base is a 1969 Vox Apollo; producer T-Bone Burnett gave him the instrument in 1993 during the recording of Sam Philip's Martinis And Bikinis. "This is the sound I've been wanting for the last ten years," Moulding reveals. "It has a real nice bottom end and that '60s click as well, which I'm fond of. It's McCartney-esque, loves compression, and really sings. Apple Venus is the first XTC album we've used it on; I think it's on every track but two. It needs an amp, because it sounds very flat through DI." Colin Epiphone Newport, which he bought in '79 for the Black Sea sessions, shows up on "The Last Balloon" and "Greenman." "It's an old '60s-type bass with a damper, which gives it that stringy double-bass sound. But the intonation's gone on it, so I don't use it much now."

BB

Edited June 16, 2012 by BarnacleBob

[chaypup]

Thanks Neepheid. Wow, never heard of these before, really nice!

Edit: Thanks Barnacle Bob too!

Edited June 17, 2012 by chaypup

[grenadilla]

That EPI Newport has a medium 32" scale. In the video it isn't plugged in; could be another bass on the recording...

[Chris Horton]

Yep , it's an epiphone Newport bass , aka the" bat wing " bass because of the headstock shape

[noelk27]

[quote name='grenadilla' timestamp='1339949377' post='1696636']In the video it isn't plugged in; could be another bass on the recording...[/quote]
TOTP, nothing was ever plugged in. As for what's on the recording, wasn't his main studio bass a Wal of some description (a IIe, I think)?

[neepheid]

[quote name='grenadilla' timestamp='1339949377' post='1696636']
That EPI Newport has a medium 32" scale. In the video it isn't plugged in; could be another bass on the recording...
[/quote]

That's unusual, because all the rest of them are 30.5" scale

[chardbass]

Tune :-)

[Jones_Stuff]

That 'drum kit' is hilarious.

[evilLordJuju]

These are great basses, and with a hipshot there should be no intonation problems. basically just a different shaped EB0. They are the bass models that go with the Crestwood, Wilshire etc electrics

There is also the [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/epiphone/bass/1962EpiphoneNewportDeluxe.php"]Epiphone Newport Deluxe[/url] - which is the two pickup (basically an EB3, but with a three-way switch rather than a varitone), and even a fuzztone model (one has never come up whilst i've been looking)

Other famous users include Johnny Cash's bassman Marshall Grant

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY[/url]

[KevB]

I think also featured in the same old TOTP episode as that XTC song there was a band called Liverpool Express and the lead singer/bass player appeared to have a bass that was a Fender neck attached to a Thunderbird type body, or was this actually an obscure Fender model I've forgotten about?

[LiamPodmore]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1340019455' post='1697614']
I think also featured in the same old TOTP episode as that XTC song there was a band called Liverpool Express and the lead singer/bass player appeared to have a bass that was a Fender neck attached to a Thunderbird type body, or was this actually an obscure Fender model I've forgotten about?
[/quote]

That just sounds to me like a Fenderbird, it's something that's quite common actually. People take their favourite Fender neck, and stick it on a Thunderbird body.

Liam

[KevB]

I assumed it was probably one of these, maybe inspired by The Ox? Just for clarification I found a link;

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

[Chris Horton]

Here is a link to a rather rare colour Epiphone newport bass - [url="http://oliviasvintageguitars.com/bass/guitars/2027/"]http://oliviasvintageguitars.com/bass/guitars/2027/[/url]

[neepheid]

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1340110525' post='1699209']
Here is a link to a rather rare colour Epiphone newport bass - [url="http://oliviasvintageguitars.com/bass/guitars/2027/"]http://oliviasvintag...s/guitars/2027/[/url]
[/quote]

I would have thought that is Inverness Green. Pelham Blue goes a more jade-like colour over time. What is this "Pacific Blue" they speak of? I really wish people would stop making stuff up.



Picture from [url="http://home.provide.net/~cfh/gibsonc.html"]http://home.provide.net/~cfh/gibsonc.html[/url]

[evilLordJuju]

Pacific blue is what Epiphone called their mid sixties blue finish (Along with California Coral, and Sunset yellow)

see this page of the '64 catalogue
[url="http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/epiphone/catalogues/1964_5.php"]http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/epiphone/catalogues/1964_5.php[/url]

[neepheid]

Well, that's me told! Would it really go as green as all that?

Sorry for accusing people of making stuff up, I am a hot-headed bad person

[evilLordJuju]

Who knows? Epiphone might have been making stuff up... Who has seen a Sunset Yellow or California Coral anything?

Remember CMI were trying to make out that Epiphone and Gibson were different companies. Sure they were built in the same factory, on the same block, but they used the back entrance (on Bush Street) as the Epiphone address and the front entrance (Parsons Street) for Gibson.

It is mostly likely the same paint, just a different name....