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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:34 pm
by carrie_reyes
EVERY POST? Ok I guess
I like BIG DOGS ...poodles? Fugly
Ratso, I heard of you on the BGC forum...cheeky LOL
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:59 am
by admin
Carrie: Most browsers will allow you to save password information so that you don't have to enter it each time.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:18 am
by jwr2
the Animals are major cool ... a very influential band ...
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:21 am
by iamthebassman
I love The Animals and Chas's bass playing and tone. I have a '66 Gibson EB-2 and reissue Epi Rivoli. They sound and play great and I love playing the intro to "We Gotta Get Outta This Place". Chas's Rivoli was on ebay about a year ago, went relatively cheap.
Also gotta love Paul Samwell-Smith, especially when he'd shoot up the neck during the "rave-ups".
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:58 pm
by rictified
'It's my Life' was a seminal point in a young bass players life many many many years ago. I loved that line and still do to this day, what a sound he had. ba boom, ba boom, ba boom ba boom ba boom, haha! That has to be one of the hookiest bass lines in all of rock n roll.
Petrified Bob
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:24 pm
by mgauction
Carrie, that Epiphone Rivoli was offered on ebay exactly a year ago. I was at the Dallas Guitar show and a friend of mine showed me several photos in the newest Hendrix book of Chas Chandler playing an EB2. The bass came with a LOA from Chas stating he used it in '64 to record and to play live. Obviously, I was perplexed and it scared me off the bidding, as I was prepared to go the distance and really pay a lot! It was actually relieving as I had fretted over it and made my friends miserable with my plight.
Fast Forward --
A few months ago I saw an old cheesy film (pre-videos) of The Animals walking through an old house singing "House" and there was Chas playing the Rivoli. Ooooohhhhhh!
It still hurts.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:40 pm
by ratso
Mike,
Mike Guthrie just sold that bass to Greg Feo a few weeks ago!
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:48 pm
by mgauction
I wonder what it went for, Ron? My guess is that he might have got a pretty good trade for it with Greg's arsenal of Hofners.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:56 pm
by carrie_reyes
Ron, Lucky Man (GF). I take it you know the buyer & the seller Ratso?
We watched the auction. What a piece of History! I would almost be afraid to play it.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:54 am
by admin
I'll have to get out more often. I have never noticed a Hofner bass with a blue finish before.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:27 am
by iamthebassman
This is a photo from the ebay listing.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:22 am
by mgauction
Yeah, Peter. They are a limited issue of some kind. I don't remember from when, they just popped up.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:35 am
by rictified
I think the blue ones are fairly recent, I've seen them before and I don't know my Hofners at all, evidently Greg does though, haha!
I've seen Chas with cherry EB-2's more often though than with Rivoli's. EB-2's were later in his career I would imagine, I owned one, they're really nice basses.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:19 am
by iamthebassman
Here's my EB-2
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:26 am
by mgauction
Very nice, Ronn! I've seen your site before. I thought you are left handed?