Geddy Lee's Teardrop

[dje31]

Well, I have to say Geddy was just a kid when he did that. He also, speaking of hacking up instruments, had at one time wired his Taurus pedals into his Oberheim synth so he could control it with his feet. He had MIDI years before anyone else . . .

The teardrop P was also the predecessor to the Steinberger. Man, he was always ahead of his time!

Seriously, though, I remember reading---in either a magazine interview, or perhaps one of their tour books---how he always felt like apologizing to the teardrop P for what he'd done to it.

 

[maxiegrant]

That is the closest look I've ever gotten at that thing. I've seen it several times in the background of photos and you can spot it in the ESL video for a couple of frames. Nice pic.

It really is too bad that the mod ruined the sound, as it looks pretty cool. I read in an interview that he apologizes to it every time he sees it.

Edited: LOL @ dje31 -- I posted my reply before I read yours.

 

[dje31]

I think that's the first color pic I've seen...every other one was B&W. Had no idea it was a blue-white burst / fade.

 

[delrey]

 

[fretlessman71]

What's that butt-ugly thing on the far right?

Dunno what it's called, but it seems to be the reason I get gigs a lot.

 

[dalkowski]

Dunno what it's called, but it seems to be the reason I get gigs a lot.

You GO.

 

[Turnaround]

It is a modded p-bass. After the mods it looked and sounded bad.

Geddy had a moment of bad judgement.

Geddy was young and foolish then. He's neither now.

 

[twocargar]

I still wanna make one! One of these days I'll get a donor cheapie bass to try this with.

 

[Maxwebster]

At least he held on to it as a souvenir.

 

[ubernator]

I had read somewhere that the p bass got heavily damaged and that's why he cut it up.

I cut the top horn off my squier p bass, but that's because it was cracked all the way through. I was also about 18 or 19. In hindsight a glue injection would have been a better idea. It did not totally destroy the tone though, it made it more like an asat with bad neck dive. I don't think I have played it since shaving the headstock down though.

An unfinished project of mine of many many years. It is also fretless, but I did that even earlier. An extra QP pickup makes me want to finish it.

 

[Robert B]

No, he means that chunk of firewood.

I'll happily take that chunk of firewood!

 

[charlie monroe]

The loss of mass from that hack job probably didn't change his tone as much as the cross talk from introducing the jazz pickup.

 

[dje31]

The loss of mass from that hack job probably didn't change his tone as much as the cross talk from introducing the jazz pickup.

To that point, could this, in fact, be one of the first PJ setups known to man?

 

[charlie monroe]

To that point, could this, in fact, be one of the first PJ setups known to man?

I guess it could be.

A quick look leads me to believe the first Fender production came out of Japan in '83-4. It was called the Fender PJ