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I think 100 degrees there is a lot different than 100 degrees here. The humidity we get is horrendous
It has been a long time since we hit triple digits. I was on a trip with some friends, misbehaving on sportbikes, and I drank something like three gallons of water and didn't need to stop for a bladder break. I was probably leaving a cloud of steam behind.
I'm expecting the line to be hot, but the ride to be OK. I don't know what to expect on Vashon. I haven't been there enough to know if it stays a little cooler or not. I'm in an air conditioned building during the day. AC has its limits. The amound of cooling a building can handle is dependent on outside temperature up to a point, which means it may reach its limits over the next few days. Lying on the floor in the basement sounds like a pretty good idea when it gets too hot. Our house is getting painted for the next week or so, which means the windows are all covered with plastic. That's going to make for another set of challenges with the heat. I'm just whining. Never mind. We will all survive it and then wonder what it was all about.
Do those maple tops brighten up the mudbuckers at all?I play the SG, EB and TBird on a regular basis.
From left to right: 2007 Gibson SG Supreme in Lava burst (limited run), 2013 Gibson 50th Anniversary Thunderbird in Gold Bullion, 2007 Gibson SG Supreme in Blonde (limited run), 2013 Gibson EB 5 string bass.
All are great, and as you've noted the SG does have less attack on the initial note than the others. My SG's are short scale basses made in 2007 as special runs but basically the same sound wise as the newer ones that are less fancy. These are great basses with fantastic fast necks and are my go to instrument for figuring out pesky bass lines, just so much easier to get around the neck on these in my old age. I also love the laid back sound that beds very nicely in a mix. It's not a forward sounding bass like the TBird, much more foundational in tone and less attack.
I do love getting old. It means I'm still at it! Pain is nature's way of letting you know you are still alive. I forgot pickle juice. That works wonders.
Maybe a little bit, but not as much as the bridge pup does.
Gotta love it - a body reversed from the typical TBird offering (I know it's called a non-reverse, just go with it for a minute), in a lefty configuration, strung for a righty! just can't get more twisted than that.
Yeah... that mudbucker is a real bulldozer. I imagine it would take a bit more than a 1/4 maple veneer to slow it down!
I wonder if this is the same one we were talking about a while back. It was about $9000. This is nuts.
It is a 68 or 69. He doesn't exactly know/remember but it was bought new and was 3TSB.
I don't have a true Jazz, and haven't found one I've connected with. I probably will eventually. My P with Chromes, my Deluxe Series P Bass Special (PJ) and my recently acquired Mustang PJ (with a very good stock J pickup) give me lots of classic Fender tones, including jazz like tones, only fuller, if that makes sense. Between those and the 2015 and Goth Birds, and an active Ibenez I have, I can dial in pretty much any tone that suits the variety of styles I play while running clean through the amp and no effects. I like to keep things simple, if you can call rotating six basses simple...
I think you just broke the space/time continuum.Gotta love it - a body reversed from the typical TBird offering (I know it's called a non-reverse, just go with it for a minute), in a lefty configuration, strung for a righty! just can't get more twisted than that.
If the price was something resembling reality I'd be all over it.
