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Thunderbird Club
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I keep looking for BlingBirds at GC but no luck so far.
Good one! Gotta love early Top.I thought "Takin Care of Business" was your name
Speaking of blue.... One of my favorite songs from my 2nd or tied fro first fav bands.
Who wants a white Greco?
https://reverb.com/item/85935340-gr...Y6MKUGFcU_IZz1lEcCkpF1ajxGQHQijxoCF_wQAvD_BwE
https://reverb.com/item/85935340-gr...Y6MKUGFcU_IZz1lEcCkpF1ajxGQHQijxoCF_wQAvD_BwE
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,894
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
I recognize that car bumper!
The Man! Dressed Sharp!
Texas!
Yeah ZZTop is one of my favorite bands. Love the early stuff and their later music performed live.
Ok, you started.......Its pretty grey here - sunny days are a couple months away yet, here's to being warm again!
Youze guys.........
Oyster Homies.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
Well it finally arrived, the cherry NR I've been waiting for! I'm really pleased with it, beautiful finish and quite light I'm guessing about 7.5 pounds. It will have to spend a bit of time in the layaway room at The House of Guitars but I took a new job just before Christmas so I should have it home soon. 
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That’s a fantastic price! If I didn’t already have a white Greco I’d be all over it.
THE cheapest! For what it's worth though, not completely unrelated to a traditional t-bird pickup, which I believe consist of two coils, each with a bar magnet down the middle instead of poles. That's kind of where the idea to try this one came from - overthinking pickup designs and then realizing I had one of these kicking around from another project that never took shape. I figured, before I buy something else for the neck position there, why not tape this guy on there and see how it sounds first?! The result far exceeded my expectations so I decided to roll with it.
Honestly the only downside is that it has the typical, inherent single-coil 60-cycle hum, but I'm used to that from my beloved Bisonic pickups in my vintage Guilds. Just nice to have the option to flip to a big pillowy, clear neck position single coil. Especially when you roll the tone off a bit, it has the coolest thumpy old-school tones. Then at the flip of a switch it can jump back to the modern aggressive growling tones of the dual EMG's. The blended tones are nice too! Just a great versatile little country punk bass, which is one of the few niches that my Alembic struggles to fill
Beautiful Chuck!Well it finally arrived, the cherry NR I've been waiting for! I'm really pleased with it, beautiful finish and quite light I'm guessing about 7.5 pounds. It will have to spend a bit of time in the layaway room at The House of Guitars but I took a new job just before Christmas so I should have it home soon.
If you haven’t played one of the new NRs yet I think you’re gonna love it. Mine plays almost effortlessly. The neck profile is quite different from my other Gibson birds as well, muck more rounded and thick, feels almost Fenderish compared to my other Gibby birds.
Edit: my bad Scott, I thought it was Chucky posting. I suspect you’ve already played the new NR, so you’re aware of how nice they are. Congrats on the addition.
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wrong person but thx for the invaluable insight!
I have a MIJ 4003 with single coils, and don't find the hum is a problem. I also dig the single coil Pbass (Dusty) sound.THE cheapest! For what it's worth though, not completely unrelated to a traditional t-bird pickup, which I believe consist of two coils, each with a bar magnet down the middle instead of poles. That's kind of where the idea to try this one came from - overthinking pickup designs and then realizing I had one of these kicking around from another project that never took shape. I figured, before I buy something else for the neck position there, why not tape this guy on there and see how it sounds first?! The result far exceeded my expectations so I decided to roll with it.
Honestly the only downside is that it has the typical, inherent single-coil 60-cycle hum, but I'm used to that from my beloved Bisonic pickups in my vintage Guilds. Just nice to have the option to flip to a big pillowy, clear neck position single coil. Especially when you roll the tone off a bit, it has the coolest thumpy old-school tones. Then at the flip of a switch it can jump back to the modern aggressive growling tones of the dual EMG's. The blended tones are nice too! Just a great versatile little country punk bass, which is one of the few niches that my Alembic struggles to fill
“Good as Gold”
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- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,894
- 142,211
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Oh Hell yes!
We need to travel somewhere just to eat oysters!
LOL - trying to keep an eye on the fire progression down here in SoCal while posting on TB. Multi tasking was never my specialty.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
I luv BTO! I've been listening to live in Tokyo on spotify, they are a amazing live band
and have more hits than you can shake a stick at!
