Gibson Kalamazoo

[beerdragon]

Anyone played one these, they look interesting. [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php"]http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php[/url]

Don't know why they are that shape. the Guitar version is totally different, [url="http://cgi.ebay.it/GIBSON-KALAMAZOO-KG2-1967-VINTAGE-MADE-IN-USA-/280537320540?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Chitarre_Elettriche&hash=item415153cc5c#ht_500wt_1154"]http://cgi.ebay.it/GIBSON-KALAMAZOO-KG2-19...c#ht_500wt_1154[/url]

Edited July 25, 2010 by beerdragon

[2x18]

[quote name='beerdragon' post='905069' date='Jul 25 2010, 06:53 PM']Anyone played one these, they look interesting. [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php"]http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php[/url]

Don't know why they are that shape. the Guitar version is totally different, [url="http://cgi.ebay.it/GIBSON-KALAMAZOO-KG2-1967-VINTAGE-MADE-IN-USA-/280537320540?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Chitarre_Elettriche&hash=item415153cc5c#ht_500wt_1154"]http://cgi.ebay.it/GIBSON-KALAMAZOO-KG2-19...c#ht_500wt_1154[/url][/quote]
They also did a Bass with the Mustang style body as well as the Gibson EB style
Although the Gibson style seems to be the most popular one!

Will.

[Shaggy]

[quote name='2x18' post='905139' date='Jul 25 2010, 07:50 PM']They also did a Bass with the Mustang style body as well as the Gibson EB style[/quote]

That was the one I had as my first bass in '77 (which you had the neck from. Will!) - it looked very cool, and with the Gibson connection had more kudos than the Saxon "SG" and Watkins Rapier the other guys in my school band had, but when I later "upgraded" to a Columbus Jazz the Columbus seemed light-years better - which doesn't say much for the Kamamzoo. Nice player, but very muddy / thuddy as I recall, though god only knows if I [i]ever[/i] changed strings back then. EvilLordJuju (who did the flyguitars link) likes 'em.

[Wil]

Those mustang shaped versions are really cool!

[evilLordJuju]

[quote name='beerdragon' post='905069' date='Jul 25 2010, 06:53 PM']Anyone played one these, they look interesting. [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php"]http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php[/url]

Don't know why they are that shape. the Guitar version is totally different, [url="http://cgi.ebay.it/GIBSON-KALAMAZOO-KG2-1967-VINTAGE-MADE-IN-USA-/280537320540?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Chitarre_Elettriche&hash=item415153cc5c#ht_500wt_1154"]http://cgi.ebay.it/GIBSON-KALAMAZOO-KG2-19...c#ht_500wt_1154[/url][/quote]


These are not bad basses. The bodies are not solid wood, rather a compressed board of some type, manufactured by a toilet-seat manufacturer in Wisconsin. The pickup is the same as the Gibson EB0, EB2 or EB3. The bridge is also Gibson stock hardware, although these were using up the older non-intonatble bridges, as around this time Gibson basses had just started being fitted with the [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/parts/bridge/"]Gibson two-point intonatable bridge[/url]

Tuners are the Japanese closed gear type, used on numerous 60s basses.

So the maple bolt-on neck lightens the EB0 sound slightly, but the overall character of this bass comes from the fat Gibson neck humbucker. Many of these get parted out for spare parts for other Gibsons, but they are nice basses in their own terms.

Mine ALWAYS turns heads when I play it out

[Wil]

[quote name='evilLordJuju' post='905662' date='Jul 26 2010, 12:23 PM']These are not bad basses. The bodies are not solid wood, rather a compressed board of some type, manufactured by a toilet-seat manufacturer in Wisconsin.[/quote]

Made in the Bongo factory? Wow!