Broken in like a pair of well worn blue jeans!
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Thunderbird Club
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got it from another TB thread….apparently it belonged to Pat Vegas from Redbone who used to gig it with two Acoustic 360s….
Seems in the ballpark pricewise but hiding the serial number?
Y'all may recall that I bought the Epi Embassy to semi-retire the 67 NR from gigging. And I like the the Embassy. With them 760s it's a fine sounding bass. But...I've tooken the NR on a few gigs lately and reminded myself-right there in front of people-what a fine instrument it is. So, fork(sp?) it, I'm gonna play the thing 'til the h.s. flies across the room and 'beans' someone.
Epiphone Embassy(2021) w/ SIT Power Flats...1967 Thunderbird non-reverse w/ EBCFs
Epiphone Embassy(2021) w/ SIT Power Flats...1967 Thunderbird non-reverse w/ EBCFs
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It's a local shop. I wouldn't sweat that any. If anybody is in the market and needs me to put eyes/hands on it y'all let me know.
ever wonder who owned it before and what it was traded in for?…..there couldn’t have been many owners before you right?….must have been in almost almost brand new condition when you got it and you are probably one of the few people in the world who experienced an almost brand new first gen TBird….. pretty trippy…
No way of knowing(that I know of). I got it in early '73-b4 any h.s. damage-while it still had the serial #(513096) on it. I've had it since then through many years of gigging 6 nights/week, and even more nights of gigging 1 or 2 nights/week. It's prolly just as well it can't talk about some of its/my (mis)adventures.ever wonder who owned it before and what it was traded in for?…..there couldn’t have been many owners before you right?….must have been in almost almost brand new condition when you got it and you are probably one of the few people in the world who experienced an almost brand new first gen TBird….. pretty trippy…
I guess my biggest regret concerning it is that I coulda bought the blue NR that was next to it in the shop-I had enuff $-but I'm not a fan of blue basses(sorry, @MCF). Oh, well. In the words of that great philosopher Cher, "If I Could Turn Back Time"...
Wowza, this Greco popped up on one of my feeds, never seen one like this
Cool! A G-EB-2!(sorta)Wowza, this Greco popped up on one of my feeds, never seen one like this
I believe it was called the SAB-1000, I've seen them in Cherry and Sunburst before, but never black with gold hardware. If only I had the cash!
- Jun 30, 2010
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Thanks for your insights C - I just thought it looked interesting and it was tastefully/well designed.
- Jun 30, 2010
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Wowza, this Greco popped up on one of my feeds, never seen one like this
Worth it for the cool (leather?) gig-bag -
- Jun 30, 2010
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It is and every bass-player needs to own at east one hollow-body! There's no way a solid-body can sound like that.
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Yeah, Oz has 11 thousand beaches on its own…
Will he swap it for a bass?I like the '70-'73 much better too, the SD455 is stock, all original so it's worth some $$$, he (my buddy, Bill) has this '71 as well, he says he's going to sell it - which makes me sad 'cause it's my fave.
That’s the front I like, then the 77ish one. Not so much the 74 and 79 styles but this beggar wouldn’t be choosy
DTF’s???
What year is that bass?
I have a similar thing going on.
And there is a rout for a mudbucker.
Was already there when I got the bass.
Ha. I haven’t had a trainer since I joined a gym for a few years in ‘80. Mainly because Heather Lockyear worked out there for awhile.
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No."Tie a Yellow Ribbon"; "NY, NY"; "Achy Breaky Heart"?
