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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 12:55 pm
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Yeah, I just looked on the Epiphone site, which I had to add back to my saved links, since they changed everything around, and the old link goes to the Gibson site. I didn't see any EB basses, either. Just the Jack Casady model, Viola, Allen Woody Rumblekat, and a Kramer D-1 bass, which I guess they are reintroducing. Interesting that other than the Kramer (which isn't Epiphone, but Gibson owns the brand,) it's all hollow and semi-hollow basses that's available.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 6:38 pm
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That's looking about it, from what I saw also. Really don't get this whole Gibson / Epiphone situation any longer. Are they trying to get players to switch back, or to Gibson for the SG Std., (EB-3 Epi style), or the LP Jr., (EB-0 Epi style)? A lot of big bucks difference playing out here, between Epi, and Gibson. Way out of my league any more.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:23 pm
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I don't know, but I suppose that's a possibility, even though they make the same models for the 6-strings. Epiphone even has inspired by Gibson models out this year that are supposed to be even more modeled off of the Gibson versions, or whatever. They have an SG that looks totally like the one that Robbie Krieger had in The Doors. I think that's actually an SG Jr. model, or whatever to be technical about it. I guess time will tell if they change that, or not. If that's the case, then the cheapest Epiphone bass will be the Viola, which I think is $399, which is $200 more than the cheapest Squier bass available now. Oddly enough, they still offer all of the Epiphone basses available on AMS, including the EBs, and they aren't on clearance.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:27 am
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SW is doing the same with the Epi EB-3's in stock, and showing out of stock, with more coming in for the EB-0's.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 6:17 pm
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There might be a lot of them in stock, or available so that the stores might not get to the point to where they'd go into clearance, or whatever. That, or they don't know yet, if they are discontinued. Maybe they only put them in clearance if they want to move the remaining stock fast to make way for newer stuff? I don't know for sure, just guessing about all of it.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:21 pm
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They are priced as usual, at least for now. There could also be a fair number still in the distributor's stock. Or, there could also be the scenario, of the site hasn't been changed. The EB-3, and or the EB-0 are still regular Epiphone manufactured basses. If not, like I said earlier, I have my EB-0, with a Rosewood fretboard, that's really well made, and finished at that. Oh yeah, and an Epi case for it to hang out in. It's cool, one bass, one player. Image

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 10:49 pm
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Yeah, that's the thing, you did get you a really good version of one, with a rosewood board, which they quit using, whether they no long sell them or not. Like we said, I guess time will tell and see what's really going on there with all of that. I suppose we could contact customer service at Epiphone and ask them. I did contact them one time to ask about the bass strings they use, and they did get back to me and told me it was D'Addario.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:11 pm
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The strings are pretty decent on the new Epi's. Whether they're D'Addario now or not, I don't know. I may do a call to Epiphone CS, and inquire about the bass listings now.

I did get very fortunate to acquire the EB-0 that I did get. It was a good thing the newly arrived 2019 EB-0 at the Coconut Creek GC store had its sound issue, right out of the box, and the 2018 I have was available at the West Palm Beach GC store. Just plain dumb luck. To this day, nothing is wrong with my 2018 EB-0. ALL RIGHT NOW! Image

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:38 pm
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It seems like D'Addario is often the go to for strings on a lot of brands. Ibanez comes with them, for example, and I've seen other brands, too. You can tell usually them pretty easily by the color coded ends. I am curious to see what's up with the missing basses. I'd say that was luck, or just good timing. Right place at the right time sort of thing. When you went there, was it some spur of the moment thing, or something you deliberately planned ahead of time?

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:43 pm
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On some of the D'Addario strings made for company name brands, the may just use the standard brass balls, in place of the D'Addario colored ones. Who knows.

It was rumbling around in my head for a few days, about doing the change out to the EB-0. And then it became a positive move to do that day. That's when everything got into motion. I knew SA didn't have any in their entire system. The GC's were about the only option for getting the EB-0 locally. I do believe I did get the best EB-0 around. Lucky, and I'm not even Irish. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:58 pm
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That's true about the D'Addarios. I think they call that an OEM (original equipment manufacturer,) if that's the correct usage, and/or term. There's a lot of that with instruments, too. Cort and Samick were ones that did that for Epiphone and other brands. I could be wrong, but didn't D'Addario do that for Fender strings? I seem to have read that somewhere, but not sure, or even if that's still the case. There are a couple of brands that make their strings, I think Rickenbacker is one of them, from what I understand.

That did work out to your advantage, especially with the one you got. It's also probably good that you got it when you did, because there's always a strong chance that you could have missed it, and someone else got it. You know, snooze you lose , and all of that.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:15 pm
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Like with Gibson, their bass strings at least, were Cleartone. I don't who was making Fender strings, and still don't.

Coral basses at one time were made by Danelectro. They were killer basses. Vox was in the mix as well for making other instruments also.

I believe I appreciate this EB-0 more now, than I would've before now. It's a finer EB-0 than the 1970 Gibson I had 50 years ago. The single sidewinder Humbucking, I think has a better all around output, and tone quality.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 12:52 am
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Yeah, they were Cleartone, but then went to D'Addario, from what I've understood. Gibson still has it's own guitar strings, but who knows who actually makes those? Maybe it's D'Addario, although it's possible they might. Then again, why would they just make their own guitar strings, but not bass ones? Although, there used to be Gibson branded bass strings, and of course, bass is the red headed stepchild of Gibson, anyway, for the most part.

Danelectro made a lot of stuff, that's for sure. There was the whole thing with the department stores, like Montgomery Wards and all of that. Eko in Italy made a lot of Vox stuff, with their branded guitars and basses. At least the Italian made stuff. Of course, Eko made a lot of stuff in the OEM fashion. It seems like there was a lot of that going on in the 60's, which was probably the golden age for electric guitars and all of that, because of The Beatles, and all of that. You know that better than I do, since you were there. I have a bunch of links to site dedicated to a lot of that. I've gone down many a rabbit hole looking around for stuff. I might catch a name on something, maybe in a Vintage Guitar magazine, and try to do a search and see what's up. Sometimes, there's barely anything, though. It's really up to someone to put information on line to get that ball going, and there has to be enough people around to also contribute to make it into something substantial.

That's great that you're still gelling with that bass. You know it's a good one, when the more you play it, the more you like it, especially for longer than a month or two. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:30 pm
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The EB-0 is Right On for my playing style also.

Like way talked about on strings before, who knows. The only thing I know of, on what strings are where, my EB-0 has D'Addario ETB92S Nylons strung on it.

The Rumble 800HD sure did have poor time on its release to the market.

It was a like a damn had been breeched when the the British Invasion started. It was fast. So many kids, and older folks, wanted to get into it, and be a part of it. The companies probably couldn't make drums, electric guitars, basses, and electric organs fast enough. It was almost at a frenzy for the music. Rock music had come, and kicked in the doors for its place in life styles, and history. That was about all you heard on the radio also. People that didn't really know who The Beatles were, started humbling their songs. Local Miami TV stations started using their music in elevator style music as background music, for station breaks to announce the channels name and channel number. The Beatles , ''And I Love Her", was a popular song for that. Just instrumental parts of the song, but it was THE BEATLES!

February 9, 1664,......... The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. 56 Years ago on the 9th.

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Post subject: Re: Epiphone EB-0
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:25 pm
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Yeah, I imagine that bass does the job nicely, especially if you're playing some narcotic music. :P You probably could use that bass for all kinds of stuff, actually.

You know, I'd swap out the strings as soon as I could, if I got that bass, or another, as well. It seems like that's usually the first thing you want to do, to add your personal touch, or whatever. Have you noticed that even the strings on it are perfectly fine, a bass always seems like there's something missing, or not quite right until you do, or is that just me? Sometimes, I might have to leave the original ones on a while, depending if I don't have enough funds at the time, or not, though. Bass strings aren't exactly the cheapest thing, especially if you want something else besides rounds, or maybe a different kind of roundwound string. Even those have different types going on.

Yeah, a little too late for the Rumble 800, but what can you do? I suppose at least it exists now, anyway. You know, if I had the ways and means I would pick one up. That, or a Gallien Krueger, but it's the Ampeg for now, not that it's some terrible amp at all. For all I know, my tonal issues could have been how the bass was sounding, and not necessarily the amp, although it probably wouldn't hurt to really look into everything and do some fine tuning.

That is interesting how the 60's really changed so drastically in a 10 year period, and a lot happened that really changed the culture. I guess with The Beatles, it was really the right place at the right time, with all of the stars aligned and all of that, besides their talent. I think with coming out of World War 2, and The Depression before that, with the 50's being kind of sterile, that generation needed something to happen to change things around. You also a lot of things happening with going into space, and all of that. I suppose Vietnam was also a catalyst for how that generation also reacted to the government and the older generation, as well. There was also experimenting with psychedelics.

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