Gibson at Thomann*INTERESTING UPDATE*/Bargains to be had...

[spongebob]

Why do I always have really bad GAS for an SG bass?

I've never played short scale, or a Gibbo, but I seriously love the look of those. Doesn't mention a hardcase?

Maybe it's seeing some footage of Andy Fraser from Free years back....sure he played one?

[synthaside]

they do a non short scale SG bass , in both epiphone and gibson flavours Look for an Eb3 ;-)

[spongebob]

Cool!

I've been listening to a bit of 'Live Cream' this week as well - Jack Bruce's Gibson bass tone is just huge.

....and I'm sure Phil Lesh played in the early days of the Grateful Dead as well.

I'm not helping myself here......

[NancyJohnson]

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1464191272' post='3057395']
Funny you should mention that... 2 pickups but here you go anyway:

[url="http://www.mikelull.com/site/instruments/signature/signature-ament.html"]http://www.mikelull....ture-ament.html[/url]



The red one at Bass Direct is £3K though!
[/quote]

I've got a black JAXT4. It is amaaaaaazing. Whether it's worth £3K is debatable, but did I say it's amaaaaaazing?
P

[Billy Apple]

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1464202579' post='3057567']
I've got a black JAXT4. It is amaaaaaazing. Whether it's worth £3K is debatable, but did I say it's amaaaaaazing?
P
[/quote]

Pardon me, you've got a black Jaxi?
You need to get that washed mate!

[NancyJohnson]

Didn't you have noodle on my Jax last bash, my carpal-tunnelled comrade?

[HazBeen]

Gibson, another once great company..... Awesome deals tho.

[karlfer]

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1464191272' post='3057395']
Funny you should mention that... 2 pickups but here you go anyway:

[url="http://www.mikelull.com/site/instruments/signature/signature-ament.html"]http://www.mikelull....ture-ament.html[/url]



The red one at Bass Direct is £3K though!
[/quote]

Stunning, but I just can't get on with that headstock.

[quote name='synthaside' timestamp='1464192321' post='3057413']
It makes me want to take a can of seafoam green to my epi tbird , shame its too nice an instrument to suffer at my unskilled paws.

Perhaps an ebay special karl , ive seen them go a low as £99 , i spy a doner right now in a facebook group [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/689090051102626/permalink/1167506796594280/?sale_post_id=1167506796594280"]https://www.facebook...167506796594280[/url]
[/quote]

Great idea, I'm on the case

[Billy Apple]

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1464208470' post='3057650']
Didn't you have noodle on my Jax last bash, my carpal-tunnelled comrade?
[/quote]

Ah, it felt like the summer would never end

[Owen]

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1464184423' post='3057317']

Steve Barr/Dudepit did some
[/quote]

Not wanting to derail the thread but THAT was a blast from the past. Whatever happened to him?

[NancyJohnson]

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1464245037' post='3057798']
Not wanting to derail the thread but THAT was a blast from the past. Whatever happened to him?
[/quote]

He always had great basses for sale! I had a few conversations with him online; he said he used to trawl eBay every day for every bass for sale on the .com site to accumulate vintage guitars and basses. Last contact I had, he was putting together a large format coffee table book full of hi-resolution photos of the stuff he'd sold.

On the upside, he was wholly responsible for the Dudepit editions at Lakland; I think a lot of people were pretty much barking, 'Take my money!' at him. Later, things soured...he allegedly had a mahoosive drug problem and after taking deposits for another special edition of some sort, money went missing and things went south for him very quickly. I think he was responsible for the Thunderbird shaped prototype Lakland built (you'll find photos online).

That's pretty much it as far as I know. I might have a trawl on Google later today as this has picqued my interest in him.

Edited May 27, 2016 by NancyJohnson

[spongebob]

I've pulled the trigger on an SG bass - still very cheap at the mo.