Gibson/Epiphone

[ubit]

19 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Alice Cooper's bassist uses an Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbird live. I'm sure he's in a position to buy any bass he wants.

 

 

 

That's it. I'm getting one. The gas monster has been aroused once again.

[SteveXFR]

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Looks like he's caught his fingers in the strings, though. Is the Gibson version just as painful to play..? 

[SteveXFR]

8 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Looks like he's caught his fingers in the strings, though. Is the Gibson version just as painful to play..? 

 

It's not rock and roll if you're not in pain playing it.

[Stub Mandrel]

I have an Epiphone jumbo acoustic, FT140, MIJ. The serial number slip makes it between 1970 and 75. Bolt on neck(!) Plays really well and is very loud. The tuners are three-in-a-strip, but still work perfectly after about half a century.

[NancyJohnson]

24 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I have an Epiphone jumbo acoustic, FT140, MIJ. The serial number slip makes it between 1970 and 75. Bolt on neck(!) Plays really well and is very loud. The tuners are three-in-a-strip, but still work perfectly after about half a century.

 

I have one of these.

[ubit]

This should settle it!

[pst62]

4 hours ago, ubit said:

This should settle it!

I prefer the one on the right, the one on the left is an anti English tw@t!.... Just like most on the left these days!

Edited August 26, 2021 by pst62

[SteveXFR]

1 hour ago, pst62 said:

I prefer the one on the right, the one on the left is an anti English tw@t!.... Just like most on the left these days!

 

Mel Gibsons hatred of the English comes from his father who is a very right wing conservative Catholic. 

Let's be honest though, most of the world (including most of the British) hate the English. They just refuse to let all that colonising and stealing of historical artifacts go.

[ubit]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

They just refuse to let all that colonising and stealing of historical artifacts go.

 

 

I have never been happy with the way Britain is always portrayed as the bad one. Every country that could back then, would try to make an empire and expand her borders. France, Germany, Portugal to name but a few. It was just that Britain was pretty good at it and also brought civilisation to these countries. Yes there was exploitation but you show me one country that doesn't have skeletons in her cupboard.

 

 

 

And I'm a Scot by the way.

Edited August 26, 2021 by ubit

[Stub Mandrel]

8 hours ago, ubit said:

This should settle it!

 

Very accurate. Note that the one on teh left isn't looking where he's shooting...

[neepheid]

I don't hate the English, they're just w...

 

I don't hate Gibson either, I just like Epiphone better right now.

 

Sly attempt to get things back on topic...

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, ubit said:

 

 

I have never been happy with the way Britain is always portrayed as the bad one. Every country that could back then, would try to make an empire and expand her borders. France, Germany, Portugal to name but a few. It was just that Britain was pretty good at it and also brought civilisation to these countries. Yes there was exploitation but you show me one country that doesn't have skeletons in her cupboard.

 

 

 

And I'm a Scot by the way.

 

That's true, they were all at it. Difference is most other countries who did it have changed their name since.

[such]

Most other countries don't have a PM who says we should do it again, and more. 

[SteveXFR]

This discussion about Gibson/Epiphone has gone all wrong and its all Mel Gibsons fault.

[Lozz196]

48 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

This discussion about Gibson/Epiphone has gone all wrong and its all Mel Gibsons fault.

Agree, it was about guitars & basses til he showed his curly mop.

[Eldon Tyrell]

12 hours ago, ubit said:

This should settle it!

 

I think we should all cheer up a bit. Times are already tough enough.

Ok. The guy on the right looks like "half-Mel". Like the guy in the video below apparently looks like "half-Slash" (from 3:28). Enjoy 🙂

 

 

[ubit]

On 26/08/2021 at 12:02, such said:

Most other countries don't have a PM who says we should do it again, and more. 

 

Are you talking about Blair? That was a few PM's ago.

[SteveXFR]

Can someone rename this the political beaching thread?

Discussion about the benefits of two brands of bass guitar are just a distant memory. 

Edited August 28, 2021 by SteveXFR

[Waddo Soqable]

I was surprised to find that Epiphone made double basses too..

 

[SteveXFR]

Epiphone started in the late 1800's so I guess it makes sense they'd have made a double bass

[Waddo Soqable]

I'm assuming the DBs would have been somewhat before the Gibson era.. Shame they don't do a cheapo Epi double bass these days !

[neepheid]

DBs are one of the reasons Gibson bought Epiphone in the first place.

[SteveXFR]

I'll try playing the double bass once I've mastered the single bass

[Guest]

56 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

I'll try playing the double bass once I've mastered the single bass

 

May we tempt sir with the Violone in D - five or six strings, but with frets. And not too many of them neither.

 

 

"The preferred contrabass instrument of the Viennese Classical era" ie. good for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven etc