Norman's Rare Guitars - Guitar of the Day: 1981 Gibson L9-S Ripper Bass

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It's #ThumpinThursday!!! #GuitarOfTheDay: 1981 Gibson L9-S Ripper Bass in original Natural finish with maple neck. Store manager, Mark Agnesi, showing you how our #Gibson #L9S #TheRipper #Bass sounds like 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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[@mikeymojo8299]

#ThumpinThursday #1981GibsonL9Sripper 1) Detroit Rock City/KISS 🤘🏻🔥 2) The Weight/The Band 3) In Bloom/Nirvana 4) Whip It/DEVO killer 70s Gibson Bass, a classic rock machine. great demo @markagnesi Hi Jen 🎥🎸

[@daves.2111]

Mike M. Well so much for the 335 that I told you was next on my list yesterday. They dropped the Mark & Frank video playing twin Joe B Epi korina Vs and I had a moment of weakness. Called ‘em up - it’s on the way.

[@gusdupree2508]

The thumbnail new?

[@mikeymojo8299]

Dave S. That’s awesome 👏🏻 🤘🏻

[@mikeymojo8299]

gus dupree yeah

[@c.jarmstrong3111]

RIP Rick Danko ❤ he will always be one of my favourite bassists / vocalists, and I will always continue to listen to The Band every day

[@ryanperron8309]

Cameron Armstrong Music I wonder why they’re not a household band. They were super influential

[@editorjuno]

A true masterpiece by my friend of nearly forty years, the great Bill Lawrence. R.I.P.

[@TheActor93]

Happy to see a Ripper, always found these bass’s interesting; especially the model that had the one moving pick up you literally slid up or down on the body to change the tone.

[@MrTwodogshumping]

TheActor93 I have the gibson grabber with the sliding pick up. It's my main axe. I love it. It's an 80s model with a 3 piece flamed neck

[@idiosyncraticmushroom3030]

I'm pretty sure thats the grabber, the beginner version.

[@RockHardRiffs]

I've never seen Mark so excited about a bass. Sounds great to me. Love the Devo. Rock on Carlos!

[@guywerry6614]

Yep, you know it's a great bass if MARK is excited about it!

[@pattonPwr]

the bass of basses... I own a '76 and it's been my main bass for 6 years now...

[@codywhite96]

Gene Simmons used a Grabber Bass. Same shape body but with the Sliding pickup and a Flying V headstock. Great Basses. Mark Evans from the early AC/DC used a Ripper quite often in 1975. From what I understand the finish was somewhat rare cherry sunburst. Thanks for finally doing a Ripper! Thanks for GOTD.

[@User-jk8wq]

Cody White Nah mate, Gene played a ripper...albeit for about a week in 1976-ish

[@JoeHakos]

Love that Bass! Thanks Mark and Jen. Thumping thumpity Thump

[@bobg.stewart7401]

Had a late 70s Ripper - black on black with rosewood fingerboard ... Phase switch ... BadAss bass bridge ... Played it through a TNT amp with a 15" black widow ... Sold it when moving across country ... WISH I STILL HAD IT! ... Best bass I ever played.

[@anthonynonya]

Great selection of songs today. Thanks for another great 🎸 of the day. 😎

[@johnspokus]

I played one for many years. Sold it to pay some bills at a time when I wasn't playing much bass, but still had a ton of basses, Brings back memories. Recorded some great tracks with mine. but my taste in basses has changed, pretty much strictly a Fender guy now.

[@leftybass5860]

When I built my own bass 20 years ago, I gave it a big body like a Ripper, but with a Hofner-influenced headstock.

[@MattyIce250]

i love these basses so much and have requested you to do one so many times! i nearly creamed my shorts when i saw l9s!

[@captainhowdy3104]

Cool how mark plays songs by artists who actually played that particular bass, rite on!

[@leviticusjones2384]

Watching with my 4 year old son. "Dad, when I grow up like Mark, I want a freakin' Ripper Bass! It's awesome!" "That makes two of us, Son." Mark is VERY good at his job...

[@HexxHenderson]

One of the other cool features of that bass is you can run the strings through the body like he has it there or you can attach the strings to the bridge and do a Toploader deal for a different sound and sustain. I have had a bunch of these over the years and I even have an original Gibson Ripper demo record that features Dartanian Brown from the rock band Chase.

[@AGore88]

Everytime I watch an episode of GotD, I start it thinking "eh, not really interested in that one" and end with "oh shit, that'd be killer to have". Great at your job indeed, hahaha

[@garnetbezanson1404]

i'd love to hear that plugged into a vintage ampeg amplifier

[@frankperricone2065]

My 66 Gibson EBO 76 Ripper and 77 Fender jazz all threw my 70's Ampeg V4b sound great PS has to have 215 cab

[@TheRockyhockey007]

whip it baby , whip it good , great sounding guitar , simple straight forward thumpin , love it , no wonder it was s o popular in the day. Nice looking instrument too , that one probably won't last long. Thanks Mark and Jen.

[@MrStranger1944]

I can dig it.

[@josephromero4585]

Fantastic playing ,Mark!

[@rickc2102]

Hell yeah, I've got a fretless one of these, picked it up real cheap because someone had swapped the bridge with a Fender-spaced Badass II that made the bridge pickup almost silent. One new bridge later, and the bass is a beast.

[@StairwayToEvan92]

For all you young whipper snappers out there, Rick Danko played bass for the band.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

StairwayToEvan92, 😂🤣😍Which Band? 😉

[@oskarileikos]

John JohnnyArt Pavlou THE BAND!! The best band ever!!

[@jon.wilson]

Oskarileikos yeah but which band?

[@oskarileikos]

Jon Wilson a band called The Band. Check it out!! Great songs and amazing players, I've never heard any band playing together as well as they did

[@jon.wilson]

Oskarileikos hehe I know The Band, I was just going along with the joke

[@AdmiralQuality]

Yeahhhh! DEVO! That thing's surprisingly not-bad sounding and versatile. Thanks for the demo!

[@franklinwilson3783]

Love the growl from the bridge pickup by itself

[@Forty3Snakes]

Gibson grabbers and rippers vibe. Just the purest beauty and badassness possible.

[@DanButcher303]

I love Thumpin Thursday !!!!!! Id love to see more yazz basses !!!!!

[@PatoGallini]

Im from argentina see you everyday. Keep on rocking!

[@SupernalOne]

sweet! Whatta growl, what nice thumping, and a very nice encyclopedic knowledge of the 70's-80's rock catalog. the only Gibson bass I've ever seen with through-body stringing, has to help the tone

[@Glennquagmire1912]

absolutely LOVE the ripper basses!! do a washburn though mark!!!!!!!!!!

[@Smagledorf]

Awesome bass Mark! Really cool you do things you don't like usually doing for your viewers... Sooooooooooo... How's that Maton coming along ;) ? Gotta do a Maton!

[@williamanderson3402]

I rolled my eyes for Thumpin’ Thursday and then this one really won me over. Nice job and cool song choices today!

[@jmr1229]

Atta boy, Mark! Loving The Ripper. Hoping to see one of those sweet Derek Smalls signature B.C. Rich double-neck basses come out of the back room sometime...

[@andrewpappas9311]

Jason Ryan That’d be awesome, gotta get some Big Bottom in there

[@MrTwodogshumping]

I have a 80s gibson grabber with the sliding pick up and flamed maple 3 piece neck

[@schecterseven3894]

Hey guys.

[@UndeadOutLaw68]

Really really needs to come back

[@pjmuck]

I love these basses too. Had no idea there's no setting to hear the neck pickup alone though. Kind of an idiotic oversight.

[@sjeffy5137]

That is strange as hell, I’m glad that I really only use bridge (stingray fan) on most basses

[@stinkybojangles4128]

Super rad bass

[@michaelmerritt1722]

It's a thumper! Thanks guys! #ALLCAPSFORCARLOS

[@bubbafang4510]

22nd birthday my awesome Gramps gave me his and MY FAV '74 GRABBER bass, sadly some a- hat stole it at college . Someday Ill get another one but want it to be in black better if oxblood...TRUE KISS bass

[@40spinup]

Wahoo Thumpin Thursday!!

[@ukjfan]

That's 1 badass bass !

[@I.am_Groot]

Thought it looked fugly at the start but it grew on me... Cool clip Mr Stubble

[@olivuuuur]

Get some hagstroms on the show!!!

[@jodyhendrix5876]

Yeeeeasss! Sounds great! Whip it good!

[@billyrhythm]

Drummer who digs GotD, especially Thumpin' and Weird days. What are the two extra holes near the bridge? Some kind of bridge cover ala old Ps? Seems odd that something would be there. Love the history lessons Mark!

[@rotorhead58d]

You are my hero.

[@Levitationaldelusion]

When I saw Botch in like 99', their bass player was playing a ripper. I had never heard a bass make sounds like that live...was intense. Nice bass for sure

[@wezzlyn]

Levitationaldelusion Brian Cook! Plays for Russian Circles now. Great bass player

[@Levitationaldelusion]

Thats right! Dude has massive sound.

[@Levitationaldelusion]

yeah the EGC basses sound sick also.

[@jorgemellooliveira9611]

um contrabaixo que agrada qualquer musico por mais critico que seja alem de sua beleza

[@jeromeleoterry]

Mark: we got a 4 position switch, you know what that means right Jen? Jen: 1 song Lol

[@zankyalbo2208]

The model itself dates from '73 (as you said). A strange time at Gibson and Fender. Fender starts making guitars that look like Gibson's (Coronado, others) and Gibson starts making guitars that look like Fenders (L6, L9. Grabber). CARLOS, NICE TO HEAR YOU ARE WELL. COME IN AND SCRATCH ONE OFF.

[@TURBOCAST]

Great bass!! Now what about some G&L love!!

[@Samizsm23]

Yess i asked for this one

[@lauramoore9659]

Nice!!!

[@williamkaylor1191]

I remember 1981.....

[@jackattack8044]

My friends birthday is tomorrow. Chris Fountain, turning 17!

[@just.a.bolivian.dude.1390]

The coolest gibson's bass

[@pattonPwr]

people stop asking for Mike Dirnt... he used a Gibson G3, c'mon and google!

[@SonicXRage]

Didn't he use both?

[@captainhowdy3104]

What's with the 2 screw holes at the bridge? That looks like a nice high mass bridge, maybe an upgrade.

[@chiefmachine24]

Dankooo!

[@joebodynobody764]

Someday I hope to see a Goya Panther bass. Possibly a Gibson Grabber?

[@d3-embro]

Yo i would love if you guys did a gibson marauder

[@mattiasjp]

The only bass to out-ugly this is its brother, The Grabber (the bass Gene holds on the cover of Alive), simply because of the headstock. I think it’s a miracle that they remained in production as long as they did. Sounds good and are well crafted instruments, though.

[@richard.featherstone]

You should put the time at which the birthday dedication shite ends in the description, then I know where to jump to in order to see the interesting part.

[@soothsayerofthedarkandexis8525]

Mark Evans from AC/DC had one for the albums he played on.

[@Bodyknowledge77]

No thumper fart jokes please..(unknown fact: this bass after 10 years of owning smells like burritos and head cheese) 1.KISS "Detroit Rock City" 2.The Band "The Weight"3. Nirvana "In Bloom"4. DEVO "Whip It"..The thumping continues! Badump thump!

[@mikeymojo8299]

Bodyknowledge 77 4) Whip It/DEVO

[@Bodyknowledge77]

Mike M! In my haste I missed the Freedom Of Choice boys!

[@jakepownall1082]

And Green Day!

[@pattonPwr]

green day never used a ripper.. maybe for 1 show

[@patricksuto757]

yeah mike used a g3 not a ripper. sounds kinda similar tho.

[@TheBassplayinggoalie]

Mark Evans, the original bass player of AC/DC played one of these.

[@Pandafro13]

The sitar guy is back

[@jasoncottrell2505]

You forgot about Mike Dirnt from Green Day. He plays one in the Longview video.

[@andrewpappas9311]

Song 1: Detroit Rock City - KISS Song 2: The Weight - The Band Song 3: In Bloom - Nirvana Song 4: Whip It - Devo

[@hotwheel6663]

Ripper Bass!

[@jeremyengland688]

Thumping Thursday’s

[@michaelheckman9162]

I’d love to see an original first design P-bass is you ever get one.

[@dropoutjohn]

Pretty cool... for a base!

[@dropoutjohn]

Seriously though, that was the best sounding bass I have ever heard! 👂! I wish I could by it for my best friend! Thanks for sharing Mark.

[@jamesanderson6905]

Sweet

[@travelinman482]

I wonder if there’s a vintage Schecter guitar laying around at Norman’s?

[@davidevans3175]

Oooo a bass! See ya.

[@fluroflash2803]

Please Mark, play some Rory Gallagher

[@benpeled1837]

Hey man, next week is my 18th birthday, is there any chance you will do something shredy and play a little zepplin? Great show

[@ryanryan6981]

Hi mark, my name is Ryan DiSalvo from Queensland Australia. it’s my birthday on Monday. You should play some Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.

[@douglaswalther8489]

The Jacket!

[@gagelink4963]

If you guys get some Ibanez guitars in, please do them for GOTD

[@JazzIs4urSoul]

God I wish I could just throw money at the screen and have this bass in my hands

[@JohnBrown-km1by]

Omg yasssssssss

[@matthewpaluch777]

Happy THUMPIN' Thursday everyone! Gene $immon$ anyone? My favorite Gibby bass is the Victory Artist.

[@BenCoaton]

Mark Mark Mark Could you please give my son William a happy 8th birthday shout out for 30th March please? All the way from Spalding in Lincolnshire, England. He loves guitar of the day and we watch it together every day 👍

[@ryangreer6927]

What about the grabber?

[@drinklords5380]

DEEEEEVVVOOOO! ✌️😎

[@skimmer521]

LOOKS WAY HEAVY. DANG

[@leedavis6372]

Ripper's are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[@forcefan1211]

When are we gonna hear some Dymaxion played on the channel?

[@khkartc]

First an L5-S, then an L9-S bass. What’s left but an L6-S?

[@anthonykueber6098]

Position four was worth sticking around for....kinda' like the Kama Sutra....

[@onthe1481]

Anthony Kueber--woah

[@pattonPwr]

the bass of basses

[@imperium7846]

Do an ESP or another Jackson

[@AndrewCapobianco2014]

Love the Ripper but I will always take The Grabber

[@bassmangotdbluz3547]

I remember that Stanley Clarke played one for a short time before he married Alembic.

[@stevenolsen3162]

Thump!

[@stevenolsen3162]

It played a chord when it hit Novoselic.... A#pain...

[@colinpush]

How about some Jethro Tull tunes in the future?

[@thomasnettleton289]

Episode 482. Yes, I just realized I've been 100 episodes off because I am a DUMB ASS! But even dumbassery can be remedied. A thunderous Thumpin' Thursday, although I was disappointed there was no bass toss at the end. 😀