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After joining his first band (Lynx, later renamed The Missing Links) in 1967, he switched to bass since the group had no bassist. Inspired to write songs of his own, Gene started out on a secondhand Kent guitar which his mother bought him for $15. Gene simmons’ BassesGene Simmons was exposed to rock ‘n’ roll as a young teenager, mesmerised as many were by The Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964. The modified Charlie LoBue Bass Gibson Grabber Bass

The Gibson Grabber can be seen with Gene on the front cover of the Alive! album. One was a dark red stained, the other black, and both featured a 20 fret neck and a moveable pickup which could slide into bridge or neck positions depending on which tone was needed. Just before the Alive! tour Gene had it painted black, with white binding as can be seen below: In the mid-seventies Gibson became sponsors of KISS and Gene consequently began using a pair of Gibson Grabber basses - in fact, Gene’s Grabber basses were the first two that were produced. Somewhere along the way a Gibson EB-0 pickup and chrome bridge cover were added to the bass, and the scratchplate appears to have been removed. This was the bass that Gene used both live, and to record the first three KISS albums. The LoBue also had a fully exposed 24 fret neck, a stained natural wood finish and a black pickguard. The LoBue bass was the first of Gene’s basses to feature symmetrical horns, a feature that Gene carried forward to several other bass designs including his current bass, The Punisher. This bass was sold in the early seventies, and Gene used the money to have a bass custom built for him by luthier Chalie LoBue. As a replacement he purchased a Fender Precision bass that had been modified to include a Gibson Humbucker pickup, lending it a rather unique tone. This bass, along with the rest of the bands equipment, was stolen from their rehearsal loft at Mott Street and Canal Street in New York. By the time he was playing with Wicked Lester (a band he formed with Steve Coronel, Brooke Ostrander, Tony Zarrella and Paul Stanley, and which was the forerunner to KISS), he was playing a Gibson Epiphone bass.

His first bass guitar was a $50 Segova, which he bought because it resembled his hero Paul McCartney’s violin shaped Höfner bass. Script error: No such module "Message box".KISS BASS TRANSCRIPTIONS VOLUME 1 4 GENE SIMMONS’ BASSES Gene Simmons was exposed to rock ‘n’ roll as a young teenager, mesmerised as many were by The Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964. It was limited to 350 models, all with a black finish. In 2009 Gibson produced a limited reissue of the single adjustable pickup version of the Grabber. Although very similar, the Grabber and G3 have different and unique sounds which led players to prefer one over the other. A three way switch was added to the control scheme so that the pickups could be activated as humbucking pairs neck & middle, bridge & middle, or all three in humbucking configuration for the so-called "buck and a half". This bass had three stationary pickups mounted in the neck, bridge and middle positions. Later, another model of the Grabber was produced, called the Gibson G3. It was discontinued in 1982, though small numbers were produced as late as 1984. The Grabber was available in wine red, ebony, natural, walnut and white finishes. 1975 was a peak year for Grabber sales, with 2,637 units sold, due largely to its high-profile use by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. The Grabber was originally built with a thin, maple body, but it was changed to alder in 1975.

The Grabber had one volume and tone control each, and a removable bridge cover. The pickup was brighter than the traditional Gibson style humbuckers. A distinctive feature of the Grabber was its adjustable pickup, which could be positioned by the player to simulate a neck or bridge pickup position, or in between, to provide further tonal variation. neck similar to Fender basses and shared a similar body shape with the Ripper. The Grabber featured a bolt-on Script error: No such module "convert".

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