Yeah, there are a few people doing that. Tom Petersson leaps to mind, but there are others as well.
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Thunderbird Club
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Every time I see that, I see the TRC having uosqib on it.
A fellow club member (I forget who, apologies for that 
) quoted one my posts about a week or two ago, mentionning Lollars and Thunderbuckers as pick-up replacements. I do see these names fly around once in a while, same with Lulls... Are they really that better than the stock rythm'n leads we're getting from Gibson ?
) quoted one my posts about a week or two ago, mentionning Lollars and Thunderbuckers as pick-up replacements. I do see these names fly around once in a while, same with Lulls... Are they really that better than the stock rythm'n leads we're getting from Gibson ?
Short answer no with a but, long answer yes with an if.A fellow club member (I forget who, apologies for that
Short answer no with a but, long answer yes with an if.
Perfect!
Short answer no with a but, long answer yes with an if.
This, I gotta use at work.
You guys are hilarious !
FWIW, (that and 2.75 will get ya on the subway) Lollars are good p'up's. Those are some alien encrusted ones in my avatar., But as with a lot of variables in the world of all things Thunderbird. It's all subjective.
A fellow club member (I forget who, apologies for that
If you like the stock Gibson pickups, no reason to change. I swapped mine for Lollars. I felt the Lollar's had a bit more definition overall and better mids/highs. That said, simply my opinion, no science involved.
Maybe y'all seen it, but there's movement on Epi's site. Says all VP Tbirds are out of stock and the bolt-on model is nowhere to be seen. If the VP line wasn't so recent, I'd say it looks, feels and smells like a line-up revamp, which is odd, the VP are by all accounts excellent basses. Price hike coming up again ? Gibby sales hurting ? Who knows....
A long time ago in a land far far away ... bass players had Marshall stacks too.
They must mean out of stock for direct shipment. GC and others still have them. Maybe selling faster than expected.
If the VP were completely gone from the Epi site, I'd suspect it had cut into Gibson sales too much.
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When I saw Nazareth, I guess in '75 or '76 Pete Agnew played an EB3 thru Marshalls …….%^$# whoa!
Maybe it's a stupid idea, but it's crossed my mind a few times.
A guy I worked with at my last trucking job still had his Marshall Major. He wasn't playing any more so gave it to his nephew, who was playing.
You've heard him(the driver) play. He recorded the bass track on "Sweet Caroline". I never asked him what he played through on that. Now I can't. He passed away long b4 I got on TB.
From my daughter:
And this-really a thing when it gets below 45 degrees:
And this-really a thing when it gets below 45 degrees:
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Is a falling iguana related to a drop bear?
Unlikely they're being discontinued, methinks. They were being displayed at NAMM.
Obviously the website it being prepared for the addition of the NR VP in PB, IG, BMM, Ebony, and White...
I think Marshall discontinued bass amps when they bought Eden. Except for the one offs for Lemmy.
Falling Iguanas actually made the news on many channels in Canada.
[rant] because the news couldn't find anything to report about Canada!? Newfoundland storm, federal cabinet meeting, teacher strike, pipeline court challenges... No, frozen iguanas. No wonder we no longer trust the tv news.[/rant]
