Epiphone Electric Basses

I have played the Guitar for close to thirty years. My favorite sounds were bands like the moody blues, the doors, the Allman Brothers. Frank Zappa, and many Jazz musicians like Chic Correa(You try spelling it) anyway. I use to get my ass whiped by my older brother in the 1960's because I couldn't keep my hands and feet off the basement full of musical instruments. I played Drums, Keyboards and every guitar his band left in the basement. I dreamed of owning a WORLD CLASS BASS Guitar. My boss handed me a MUSICIANS FRIEND catalog. I saw the ALLAN WOODY BASE... and My jaw droped to the floor. I remember seeing ALLAN WOODY play a base like that, and nearly had to change my drawers when I saw that BASS. I walked straight to the phone and ordered it. When it arrived a UPS driver delivered it, I told him i could kiss him on the lips. JOKINGLY, HE said ..WELL I GET OFF AT NINE. I was like oh crap.... ANYWAY... The BASS is absolutely amazing. It has a RICKENBACKER BASS sound. If you can remember who played that style bass, Your freaking as old as I am...gotta RUSH Drew Elmen, Palm Bay Florida. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING... Except the case was not tollerant of the humidity here and the Glue seperated at the bottom slightly. If you work for Gibsen Please call me... I deserve a NICE case to go with a NICE guitar.. Don't you agree? GIBSEN CUSTOMER SERVICE NOT RETURNING MY CALL. AND SENDING ME A NEW CASE!!! The Construction will shock you. It is flawless!!!! BUY THE GUITAR...EPIPHONE SEND ME ALL THE COMMISIONS... IM LISTED IN THE PHONE BOOK! This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Bought from Academy of Sound, Nottingham, UK for about £300. The T-bird has to be the classic rock bass. It's unusual looking, it's HUGE and looks awesome on stage. It's neck heavy...well, it's a T-bird, that's how they are. Just don't let go of the thing. The Epiphone Thunderbird has a bolt-on neck and is made of two pieces of wood joined in the middle with the raised centre sections fitted over the top. That's really the compromise you have to make for not paying out over a grand for the real thing. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't affect the playability or tonal qualities of the guitar to any great extent. The pickups are twin humbuckers with independant volume controls. They have a full, fat sound and for a passive bass the output is pretty high. The controls themselves are good quality and allow a fair amount of diversity - take out the bridge pickup and you're almost in P-bass territory. There's no crackle from the pots and the jack is solid as well. The black tuners keep the thing in tune whatever you do to it and the bridge is a solid, chunky piece of kit. The only finish is vintage sunburst with a white scratchplate but it looks good, is well finished and you'd never know it was a two piece body. The fingerboard is rosewood, some I have seen have quite badly pitted fingerboards but mine is okay, oiling it is a good idea. The frets are well fitted, although the shape of the body makes it tricky to play the top frets, especially if it's slung low (and it should be...) Okay, it isn't a Gibbo, but you'd have to look hard to notice. For a rock bassist it's a great instrument if you can't afford the real thing, fatter sounding than any passive bass I've ever played. That said, I wouldn't recommend the bass to a beginner as it's off-balance, has a very long scale length and the thing is so bloody big (long arms are a must). The look of the guitar limits interest to certain genres of music which is a pity, it's versatile enough to play all sorts of styles on. Really, this is an ideal piece of kit for an accomplished bassist on a budget. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I felt it was time to move up to a 5-string bass, so I immediately went to the Musician's Friend web site. I was amazed to find an Epiphone EB3 5-string bass with a retail value of $799 on internet special for only $249. I almost broke my arm getting my credit card from my wallet and buying a ticket to bass heaven. The comfortable and classic SG-style body feels so "right", and the full 34" scale allows my fingers to float through the notes and patterns that distinguish a real bass player. Choosing the perfect blend and degree of bass sounds from the dual-rail humbucker pickups is a breeze with the hand, front-mounted selection switch. The overall appearance of my ebony black bass with the gleaming chromed hardware is an eyefull that brings instant drool from other pickers. My favorite "like" is the fact I now have a thoroughly professional quality instrument with the versatility to cover bluegrass, country, rock 'n roll, and jazz on which to teach my teenage son to play basss "like his old man". The guitar comes ready to play right out of the box thanks to the intense factory setups. The fact I didn't purchase this bass sooner, because I was content to just get by on a 4-string Fender. Otherwise, there is nothing to dislike with the EB3 5-string. A solid mahogany body, maple neck, and rosewood fretboard make the EB3 an axe to be played hard, put away wet, and rode again and again for years to come. The pickups, tuners, and body hardware are first rate accoutrements that give off an aura of quality and pleasure to the user and the looker. I've played professional bass guitar for 42 years, spanning styles, methods, and genres and never found a guitar such as this to become an extension of myself. This bass is heart and soul to a player and eye candy for the audience. There is nothing to do wrong in buying this bass, except not to buy it! This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Musicians friend, $210. I like Gibson guitars, so I decided my first bass would be an old Gibson SG style... well, then I saw how expensive they were. I found out Epiphone made new ones, so I bought my EB-0 Looks good, High quality. All mahogany. good adjustable bridge, growling sound. Short scale You can't slap! the string slams into the pickup, and just makes a dull thud. It is impossible to lower the pickup. This limits playing style greatly. It has a bolt on neck, but I kind of like that rather than set in. Good Mahogany. The tuners stay in tune, no problem with electrics. Slim neck, relatively. nothings gone wrong with it Don't buy it if you like to slap. I like very much to slap, but the growling sound of this Bass is great. I really like the feel of this bass, I'm buying another bass, probably an LTD, so I can slap. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com