What bass is this?

yevveh

Exactly what it says on the tin! Tis a beauty of a bass, but I've no idea what make. It's Mike Shuman from Jubilee / QOTSA in the pic.

Darkstrike

The now discontinued Gibson Ripper, Epiphone make a version, or did, I still see them listed at Waltons, but they sound nothing like the Gibson, as they have a P pickup.

Dord

It looks like a Gibson Grabber, or possible a Ripper... It's hard to tell because his hand is covering the pickups.

EDIT: Just saw another picture of him, it's a Ripper.

yevveh

Sweet, thanks guys I thought it was a Gibson alright but I checked their website and it had nothing of it - strange, as they show the discontinued models in other categories...

Hornswoggle

Just to let you know - they have Epi versions of the ripper in Waltons at the mo

Dord

Hornswoggle wrote: »

Just to let you know - they have Epi versions of the ripper in Waltons at the mo

As was said before, they're totally different to the Gibsons. The Epi has P & J pickups which is just absurd. :rolleyes:

Gibson made three different versions of the Ripper. Well, same body but different electronics. The Ripper had two humbuckers, there was also the Grabber which had a sliding pickup, and then the G-3 which had 3 single coils.

yevveh

I'd be fully interested in trying it out if it had similar pickups to the Ripper - it seems to stand to reason that budget models wouldn't have the exact same ones, but you know. as it is, it's no more use to me than my very first bass. I may go in to try it out and pretend I'm playing a Ripper cheers anyway!