EMG Geezer Butler Signature pickups

[Funkfingers]

Anybody tried these yet? Got any hard factual information about them?

The EMG website is simultaneously gushing and not entirely informative.

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

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I know right? And all Geezer has to say is like, "I wanted the classic fender p bass sound I used to get in the late 60s early 70s... but without all the old problems I used to have with the old fender stuff." which is really REALLY vague.

 

[AdamR]

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Havent tried them but theres a huge thread about them on Talk Bass

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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I don't know what Geezer means by that, but my brother just popped a set into his P-Bass and has nothing but good things to say. I haven't heard it yet because he lives 18 hours away from me but he told me that he loves them.

 

[Funkfingers]

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all Geezer has to say is like, "I wanted the classic fender p bass sound I used to get in the late 60s early 70s... but without all the old problems I used to have with the old fender stuff." which is really REALLY vague.

I don't know what Geezer means by that.

IMO, it is somewhat disingenuous of Geezer to make a statement of this sort without defining what the (alleged) problems used to be. In the environment of Seventies Black Sabbath, I would guess note definition and outright volume versus the guitar rig of Tony Iommi.

For what it is worth, Mr. Butler seems to be getting his signature on quite a few brands at the moment. JHS/Vintage has a Geezer bass. There is the EMG pickup under discussion here. All that is missing is a Fender sig P Bass. (This would explain his reluctance to roundly slag them off.)

 

[AdamR]

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He has a sig Lakland bass

 

[Funkfingers]

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Yes but for how much longer? :scratchch

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

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IMO, it is somewhat disingenuous of Geezer to make a statement of this sort without defining what the (alleged) problems used to be. In the environment of Seventies Black Sabbath, I would guess note definition and outright volume versus the guitar rig of Tony Iommi.

For what it is worth, Mr. Butler seems to be getting his signature on quite a few brands at the moment. JHS/Vintage has a Geezer bass. There is the EMG pickup under discussion here. All that is missing is a Fender sig P Bass. (This would explain his reluctance to roundly slag them off.)

My sentiments exactly.

 

[dystrust]

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Yes but for how much longer? :scratchch

They just announced it at winter NAMM in January. Maybe Fender shot him down?

 

[uOpt]

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Lame marketing material is lame.

The lack of anything else beside lame marketing blah is annoying.

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

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I think he's been with Lakland for at least 6 years now.

 

[One Bad Monkey]

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I think he's been with Lakland for at least 6 years now.

And has a Lakland sig bass with the EMGs in it. I played it at Winter NAMM and it was pretty nice.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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Signature everything is dog balls.

"THEY DESIGNED THIS CUTTING-EDGE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES ME SOUND JUST LIKE I DID 50 YEARS AGO."

okay cool. You guys buy that ****. I'll buy the 50-year-old-**** that you guys will want to buy after trying the new ****.

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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Signature everything is dog balls.

"THEY DESIGNED THIS CUTTING-EDGE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES ME SOUND JUST LIKE I DID 50 YEARS AGO."

okay cool. You guys buy that ****. I'll buy the 50-year-old-**** that you guys will want to buy after trying the new ****.

Except I can't afford the 50-year-old-**** that I won't want to buy after trying the new **** because the new stuff sounds exactly the same for a fraction of the price.

 

[Falloffthebonetone]

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Except I can't afford the 50-year-old-**** that I won't want to buy after trying the new **** because the new stuff sounds exactly the same for a fraction of the price.

And "without any of the 'problems' he had with the old ****."

 

[Johnny the Kid]

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And "without any of the 'problems' he had with the old ****."

Yeah I can throw around my ****ty Squire that I threw those pups into no problem. I'm a bit more leary of the $4000 vintage Pbass getting flipped over my shoulder.