page_title: Gibson EB-3
section_title: Notable EB-3 players
hierarchical_section_title: Gibson EB-3 / Notable EB-3 players
caption_attribution_description: Gibson EB3 Bass Guitar by Epiphone (Elitist) Photo Joachim Hensel-Losch
context_page_description: The Gibson EB-3 is an electric bass guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
context_section_description: Trevor Bolder played an EB-3 with David Bowie's Spiders from Mars band in the early 1970s.
  Jack Bruce switched from a Fender Bass VI to an EB-3 before the recording of Cream's Disraeli Gears (1967).
  Glenn Cornick played an EB-3 for most of his last two years with Jethro Tull (1969–70).
  Bob Daisley played an EB-3 on Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and on many other albums.
  Andy Fraser of Free also played an EB-3.
  Rik Fox 
  Jermaine Jackson of the Jackson 5
  Jim Lea played an EB-3 in Slade during their most successful period in the early 1970s.
  Pete Quaife of The Kinks sometimes used an EB-3 from May 1966 until his departure from the group in April 1969 along with a Rickenbacker 4001. His replacement, John Dalton also played the EB-3.
  Mike Watt of Minutemen and fIREHOSE plays a heavily modified ’69 Gibson EB-3.
  Chris White of The Zombies played an EB-3 as well.
  Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones favored an EB-3 together with an Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexiglas bass for most of The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973, and an EB-3 for the entire The Rolling Stones European Tour 1973.
  Doug Yule played an EB-3 in The Velvet Underground.
caption: Epiphone EB-3 in Short Scale 30.5" and dot inlay albeit in limited quantities
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