1979 Gibson RD Artist Bass | Guitar of the Day
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- Guitar of the Day: 1979 Gibson RD Artist Bass in Original Sunburst finish! Store manager, Mark Agnesi, showing you how the pickups sound on this #Gibson #bass here at #NormansRareGuitars. For any questions you may have or price inquires please give us a call at 818-344-8300. So what do you guys think?
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That is the coolest bass guitar ever made. Period. And I consider myself a Fender man.
I had a passive RD Standard in the 80s. Still one of my favorite body shapes, I still wish I had it. Never sell your gear folks.
Mark- I never want to hear you say you're not a bass player again. You're certainly a lot better than most of us.
agreed
I dont know about MOST of us. Certainly a LOT of us......
Song 1: Electric Feel - MGMT
Song 2: Boys & Girls - Blur
Song 3: Lithium - Nirvana
Song one is electric feel by mgmt
Nevermind is recorded with a Ripper. If you want to hear the RD bass, Krist used it live at the Paramount theatre in 1991 and on many other occasions.
Wish Ghost had an RD bass to go along with the guitars.
One Night Stand Baltimore Since Gibson’s making the RD basses again, hopefully they’ll pick one up
Even though one of the guitar players had an RD, they also used a Hagstrom Fantomen which is basically an RD copy but with improvements like a Fender scale and lundgren pickups
Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic said that he could throw his RD Artist into a wall and that he didn't even have to retune it after picking it up again.
Krist Novoselic bass
Dont forget the t-bird and the ripper bass
And the Ibanez Black Eagle.
Was the first song that he played by MGMT? I know that the second and third ones were Blur and Nirvana.
yes
electric feel
Just like every long scale Gibson bass that thing's got some serious THUD
I've played several cheap basses thru Ampeg 8/10 amps.....they all sounded good
Isn't that the same bass Kris Novoselic used for his own signature model?
Andrew Pappas No, Krist did use one (he actually had two) but his signature is based on his standard version
You should do a bass VI sometime
UrMum I would love to hear/see that as well!
UrMum he did one a while back if you look for it you'll be able to find it
THUMPING THURSDAY!
That's an excellent name for it...
i'v been calin it thunder thursday for the last month
Loving the Blur and Nirvana :)
I love the electric feel bass line! Awesome playing
Mad props for playing Blur's "Girls and Boys"
I also have one of these (in a similar color but more of the traditional 3-tone sunburst). Great tone, but a heavy and big beast. Funny, how they did piece together the bodies of those basses, 2/3 and 1/3. Especially visible in the one above in the clip as Gibson seemed to use some kind of curly maple piece on the treble side.
My Gibson RD Artist is my favorite bass. Just love it.
I love rd Gibson's
I think Gibson should reissue them as they did with the RD Artist guitar. It sprung to my mind when I saw Debbie from My Bloody Valentine on stage with an artisan reissued one, in 2013.
could you do an sg bass
Yes! Bass Day!!!!! Thank you, Mark.
Also, Ryan Bruce/Fluff would love this bass man.
Max Scardanelli I'm guessing that he has one of the guitars or something?
Max Scardanelli Dude, I was just qbout to comment something similar. Fluff was my first thought when I saw the bass
I like that more than I thought I would. Thump Thursdays are awesome.
Girls and Boys! Such an aqesome bassline!
Munchkinfish It is cool, Alex James (Blur's bassist) is a killer bass player but really underrated
I did not expected Girls & Boys... nice combination with RD bass
sounds glorious. Gibson basses are criminally underrated
Two of my favourite bands ever.🤘🏻
wow awesome bass !!! very deep tone , wonder what it would sound like with a bass big muff pedal behind it ? !!!!
Now, with Agnesi involved with Gibson, I have to say, Norlin did cool stuff compared to what Gibson does now. The concept of the bass is 46 years old now. It might be dated, but I recently play my RD a lot, as my band members also think that this bass sounds best. Agnesi sounds a bit like the electronics is all crap, but I use the high mid/treble boost and it does well in the band mix ( and fits better to the bass model than to the guitar,which I also have). Nowadays (in 2023) they seem not knowing what to do with the bass models (except for making a Gene Simmons signature T'bird, seems a silly move to me), then there is a non-reverse T'bird, an EB-3-type and a modern EB-0 (Les Paul double cutaway). Norlin had the Les Paul Triumph, Ripper, Grabber, G3, Explorer, RD, Victory, SB and EB, they were a bit more experimental then.
i love gibson because they are never afraid to try new things
Thanks man - your new handle should be "The Mark-Lopedia"! Been around guitars all my life and I still learn something nearly every time!
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05:43 Yeaahyeeeeeeaaaaaahhh, yeeeaaaheaaah
LOVE the song choices Mark! Maybe a lil "Don't Look Back in Anger" on flat top Friday to keep the 90s groove going?
Mark you're amazing. Hell the whole crew is!
Love buzz would've been killer!
Thumpin' Thursday!!!
Always makes me chuckle.....cheers
love your videos man!!! always dope songs played to demonstrate the bass guitar, sweet
colorful tones Mark...thanks...
5:40 bass line from lithium
Kris novoselic used it at the paramount concert
Nice Bass Face 5:10
Can you please do one of the Rickenbacker 4000's you have back there?
Hey Mark, I'm surprised
you didn't comment on the
old skool head stock!
Oh yea, I'd love to see
a Gibson Victory Artist
bass!
does anyone know if that is the original bridge? looks like the bass was designed for sting thru
Someone needs to let Water know about this...the adorable little ghuleh
Nicely done Mark and Jenn....👍👍 gotta open a new credit card and get myself a guitar.....👍👍 then I'll need another one for lessons.....LOL
Do you do Gibson rippers? If so PLEASE do a video
I like that bass
Damn that Tone! This would be perfect for The Cure's Destination Street sound!
Loving the MGMT
Did you really just play Electric Feel on that bass?!? Awesome!!
Blur! awesome!
Too happy you played girls and boys
I'm not a bassist, but I know every cool bassline ever written. Blur? C'mon man... non-bassists don't typically learn Blur basslines.
Great bass (ps the oo in Moog rhymes with the og in ogre and the o in oh)
and the nirvana at the end
how did you not play Come As You Are
Thx bro
this bass sounds great, funky ass tone
I saw one for sale at a pawn shop about 35 years ago going for $450. But at the time I was a mere child and beardless youth. And neither one of us had the money.
Nice bit of Blur there MA!
John Entwhistle supposedly had some connections and input on these basses, read it somewhere a long time ago. That would explain the Thunderbird type body design and some of the cool things that could be achieved with the Moog electronics, however the necks were disasters from the word go and the headstock design was typical Norlin, really sucked. Cool technology for tone if you work with it but Fender never worried about loosing market shares to this clunker, that's for sure!
RIP Ox!
I had one, the neck was extremely stable, had an all maple artist, never adjusted the truss rod in the 10 years I had it, spent around 40 hours week playing it. I used it fretless for 3 years, popped the frets back in and dressed the ends when I sold it. Was great coupled with a bassman rig.
I like it!
very nice review
this bass is so cool.
p.s.: love the videos mark
were the holes from an old string through or part of the moog stuff?
Googling images of this bass you can see that most have them strung through the holes, but it is the same bridge, so I'm not sure if it is just an option to be able to string it either way.
There were quite a few basses in the seventies and early eighties that would allow you to either use a standard bridge feed or a string-through body option but I don't know of anyone that's still doing that, though I'm sure that someone must still offer it at least as a custom option. An old T-40 Peavey I own has that feature but nothing more recent that I own has incorporated that.
That thing is gorgeous.
awesome
That first riff he played.... sounded so familiar...
Thumpin Thursday
A great example of an over engineered solution without a problem...
What is the first song he played? I know I've heard it.
TheGomer321 mgmt - electric feel
account6699 thank you! I knew I had heard it before.
STRANGE STOUT TONES - IT COULD BE VERY USEFUL IN A FUNK ROCK SETTING
please do a ric next Thursday
Gibson Ripper?
lush
I've always wanted one of these but I'm too poor...
MOOG'S PRONOUNCED "MOHG"
Where was the "all EQ's at noon"
Girls and Boys yoiii
Seems to me like the genesis of the... er... beloved... Firebird X
No more guessing, your favorite position is in the middle.
I thought you would do a flock of seagulls they used this bass
#thumpingthursday
Isnt that more a tobacco burst?
Ahh the boat anchor… what’s it way 20 pounds ?
You must have chiropractor coverage in your insurance if you buying one of these. Great basses, they weight a ton.
well i know what bass i wanna get when i have "fuck you" money
wow wonder what it sounds like when played like an actual bass.
Yeah, I know he’s a guitar player but a little fingerstyle wouldn’t hurt. At least nowadays they get a guy who seems to actually play bass to do them
Mark didn't like this one. 😢
Robin Trower on Straturday please.
Achilles Why not man the song choices
Blood letter I was thinking he didn't like all the extras. Song choices made up for it though. I really like the flat trebly Rickenbacker sound he got at one point. Like Chris Squire of Yes.
Oh gotcha
I tried watching this, but all I could see was that zipper jacket coming up against the guitar. First thing I learned walking into a guitar shop, cover your belt buckle and don't damage the guitars.
Tobacco burst
For a true bass "sound" comparision.....Try using your fingers..instead of a friggin" pick.....I know Gibson basses very well...!! RD's are heavy.....who cares ....its a classic ..and sounds killer...!!!I I own an original Ripper ...and a RD artist....Killer guitars....!!!
FLUFF
Need padded leather jacket so strap don't hurt my back
PLEASE get a BASS Player to play Bass!!!
boo
is it just me, or do Gibson Bass humbuckers always sound like garbage?
BurtSampson just you
No I agree, I find them pretty hideous sounding, although I did hear two mid-eighties Explorer basses back when I first started playing that sounded quite good, but overall I find that they sound quite weak
this sounds great.
kevin paul halliday
Think they were t bird p'ups. With his signature model he Used the RIC hums iirc