gibson grabber ,

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun May 16, 2010 1:04 pm

mongoose69 wrote:These things died out for a good reason! Back in high school (ah, the late 80's...) I knew a guy with a grabber. Stupid heavy, mud tone, baseball bat neck. Pretty much no redeeming qualities. Sounds like just the sort of thing Gibson would reissue these days, dunnit?

i disagree. if i ever ended up playing bass in a band i'd be looking out for one. they lend themselves to aggressive playing, you just have to show it who's boss.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Sun May 16, 2010 2:11 pm

stewart wrote:i disagree. if i ever ended up playing bass in a band i'd be looking out for one. they lend themselves to aggressive playing, you just have to show it who's boss.

+1

Personally, out of the Grabber/Ripper family, I'd go for the Ripper. I like to beat the crap out of my instruments.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun May 16, 2010 2:32 pm

I find that there is a lot of gear that I dismissed utterly as a teenager because I hadn't the smarts or experience to work out how to use it, or the people I with hadn't (through no fault of our own).

kim · Post by **kim** » Sun May 16, 2010 2:34 pm

i like the look of the rectangular headstock more than the flying v headstock though

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Sun May 16, 2010 3:31 pm

I heard you can get teh kurtz with the ripper.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun May 16, 2010 5:48 pm

I thought Westtexasred was the Gibson Grabber round here?

*forlorn rimshot*

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Mon May 17, 2010 1:48 am

^ yuk yuk yuk

BacchusJim · Post by **BacchusJim** » Thu May 27, 2010 10:26 am

stewart wrote: ... they lend themselves to aggressive playing, you just have to show it who's boss.

This thing would be my ideal bass for that reason. The neck isn't any more baseball batty that a p-bass either; in fact the scale at the nut looks about the same. Plus they sound brilliant when you kick the shit out of them.

Simmons may just have put me off it though...

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu May 27, 2010 4:08 pm

benecol wrote:I thought Westtexasred was the Gibson Grabber round here?

*forlorn rimshot*

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pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Sat May 29, 2010 6:57 pm

My two cents. Gibson basses play the best but sound pretty crap. Way too muddy. The exception being the Thunderbird.

I have an EB3 and acoustically it sounds great, and plays like a dream but as soon as I put it into an amp I'm let down... and that's been my experience with most Gibson basses.

I am thinking of sending my EB3's pick ups off to Novak to see if he brighten them up and take the woof out of them.