Nah, he just likes his thicc basses and besides, most of us are poly when it comes to Thunderbirds!
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Thunderbird Club
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Nah, he just likes his thicc basses and besides, most of us are poly when it comes to Thunderbirds!
- Mar 13, 2008
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Soundcheck, I still had sensible shoes on............
Pup maker is Aaron son of Kent son of Dan Armstrong (of plexiglass bass fame), I've known Kent since about '86 but he moved back to the States before the turn of the Millennium. Kent is just genius when it comes to pickups of all sorts - and being fair to Aaron I don't think he's far behind! Aaron still lives near me in England. In the county of Kent!
As for the Greco pups, I was kinda hoping someone on here had some specs for either, or both those runs of pups - I believe, from someone's post yesterday, that they were made by different companies.
you close to Canterbury?Pup maker is Aaron son of Kent son of Dan Armstrong (of plexiglass bass fame), I've known Kent since about '86 but he moved back to the States before the turn of the Millennium. Kent is just genius when it comes to pickups of all sorts - and being fair to Aaron I don't think he's far behind! Aaron still lives near me in England. In the county of Kent!
As for the Greco pups, I was kinda hoping someone on here had some specs for either, or both those runs of pups - I believe, from someone's post yesterday, that they were made by different companies.
Soundcheck, I still had sensible shoes on............
Think the sneakers are nice girly touch.
About an hour - solely bcoz our roads are so s**t, as the crow flies it's probably only 40 miles, if that!
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Darlin, you don’t need anything to make your legs look better!True, but heels make your legs look better
- Mar 13, 2008
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Bomb sexy bass - it came out so nice!
Are you detouring up to Seattle with it before going to Sicily? My Blue one needs some company
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I have a 1977 II and a 1990 IV. I find the 1990 pups to have slightly more boom in the bottom end, they still sound fantastic though. I do know those two years pups were made by different factories but I don’t know that they are really any different in sound. My 1977 has ancient flats on it and my 1990 has new boomers on it. Plus IIRC the pickup locations are in slightly different spots. So there are enough variables to pretty much make a direct comparison of the two basses irrelevant.
If I were going to reverse engineer one pup it would be the 1977 because I believe that was the first generation of the Greco birds and I think that year the Tbirds were positioned as a premium offering from Greco vs later years where they were in the normal Greco line up. So possibly more time and money involved in making the older pups, just a guess.
