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Thunderbird Club
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Your description of the sound you were getting reminds me of my Chickenbacker with the Ken Smith Slick Rounds on it, and maybe moreso now with the 4003 pups in it. Not so assertive, low on transients and big on soft, pillowy texture.Strings define the sound of any bass. I took my Musima hollow-body to a jam-session last night through my TC Electronics 250w 112. It's strung with LaBella flats and it brought a whole different vibe to my playing. I've used it twice at a small dinner-club low volume gig here in the Mission SF with BG but this was its first use in a full on jam-session. I usually live in a mid-range area but this bass was dwelling in a warm pillowy space. The two guitarists play outside/sonic stuff and it sometimes it gets loud. (but also quiet and sparse too) That pillowy sound surprisingly found a cosy space in the sometimes sonic mayhem. Because it's improv, not being sharply defined works well when things move around in an unexpected fashion. More of a 'feel' the bass like playing an upright in a Jazz ensemble. (close enough for Jazz) And it did bring some of that woody upright vibe also. No effects - and the TC Electronics rig always rewards me by how good it sounds in the mix. I bought it used (on eBay) years ago for (wait for it...) $68 shipped! Crazy good deal considering how good it sounds. We (TSC) use it for Kirstin's keys live, and I use it for a smaller spaces being smaller & portable. It's still pretty beefy for its size, which is probably why it sounds so good.
When the drummer saw my bass he said something about a pin-ball machine. ~?~ About half way through the night I realized he was referring to the wonky pu positions that look a bit like pin-ball flippers.
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What I like about that is it makes me step off and lay back instead of play a more percussive, rhythm oriented style.
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Villain tuned to EBCF!
- Jun 30, 2010
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That is an apt description - more of a bed of low tones. In freeform jam session's I'm usually playing to the drummer, so as you say - percussive/rhythm oriented.
guess '70 is when they went to block markers and fingerboard binding?...
Installed and working as expected. Sounds exactly as my original did as far as I can hear.
So far, no noise, no matter how I tap or slap at it, but the problem has always been occasional, and unpredictable.
So I'll just have to play the snot out of it and see.
What a pity.
I think earlier. Maybe as early as ‘67, or late ‘66. When the font on the headstock got much bigger for both the J and the P, is also when the J went to block and binding. I have a 1969 P and the font is big. Very much CBS era…
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Mid/late 60s, but really took off in the 70s.
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The J started '66 with dot's and switched to blocks in July.
so that's not a 70 neck?
summer party season starts today...., 
I use all EBCFs but get a wide variety of sounds by playing different basses. CP vs Thunderbucking VP vs Epi 64 vs real 64 vs Greco. Huge tonal palette.Strings define the sound of any bass. I took my Musima hollow-body to a jam-session last night through my TC Electronics 250w 112. It's strung with LaBella flats and it brought a whole different vibe to my playing. I've used it twice at a small dinner-club low volume gig here in the Mission SF with BG but this was its first use in a full on jam-session. I usually live in a mid-range area but this bass was dwelling in a warm pillowy space. The two guitarists play outside/sonic stuff and it sometimes it gets loud. (but also quiet and sparse too) That pillowy sound surprisingly found a cosy space in the sometimes sonic mayhem. Because it's improv, not being sharply defined works well when things move around in an unexpected fashion. More of a 'feel' the bass like playing an upright in a Jazz ensemble. (close enough for Jazz) And it did bring some of that woody upright vibe also. No effects - and the TC Electronics rig always rewards me by how good it sounds in the mix. I bought it used (on eBay) years ago for (wait for it...) $68 shipped! Crazy good deal considering how good it sounds. We (TSC) use it for Kirstin's keys live, and I use it for a smaller spaces being smaller & portable. It's still pretty beefy for its size, which is probably why it sounds so good.
When the drummer saw my bass he said something about a pin-ball machine. ~?~ About half way through the night I realized he was referring to the wonky pu positions that look a bit like pin-ball flippers.
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The large Jazz Bass hs decal started showing up in the late '60s and was on all Jazz basses through '75. Same with the P-bass.
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Classic Pro Thunderbird. It was the Epi through neck before the VP. Same pickups as modern Gibson birds until recently. Mine has Hipshot replacement bridge.
