Found a white Greco for $795, but not interested in buying from half way round the world...
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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
I wouldn't be hesitant with a Japanese seller, yes there's shipping and it wouldn't be cheap....White Greco (makes Homer Simpson drool sound)!!!!
When I was younger we had a 1974 Buick Electra 225. It was about the length of a city block. Drove like a boat. Not quite the living-room-on-wheels that the Cadillac was, but yeah.
Brand-new pic for the first Thunderbird Thursday of November! 
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,237
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
My bandmate Ginger and I at Seattle's famous High Dive. Happy Thursday!
Manila Galleon.....envy the guys that can accurately model these...
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Your singer looks like a cardboard cutout in that picture. So does the guy playing a Tele. Pretty amusing.
RIP Ken Hensley. 
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I thought that perhaps they were caught mid-transport and hadn't completely materialized at the time of the pic. Think Star Trek.
Oh no.RIP Ken Hensley.
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LOL - I was getting ready to post the exact same observation.
However, it does present a Marketing Opportunity...Amaze your friends and fans!
Play with the big guys!
Full band not required!
We have cardboard cutout band members, famous and generic.
Simply place a singer and guitarist cutout on stage and rock away!
Thunderbird Thursday
My main player for the last several weeks...
It doesn't have the fast neck like my Anniversary Bird. And although it's very close it's still not quite as authoritative and biting as the Greco. Not nearly as gritty as the VP or as flexible as the 2015 either. And doesn't cut through quite as well as the BaCH equipped with chrome flats. But what it does do magnitudes better than all the rest is lay down an earth shaking chest pounding deep thick defined bottom end in massive volume levels even at the lowest of settings on the volume knob.
The .022uf tone cap (and maybe to a very small degree the 500k linear tone pot) transformed this Goth from a nice playing middle of the road bird to an absolute beast. None of my other birds can touch it in depth and volume. Keep in mind these are the stock Goth pups which are up around 14K ohms, I have it strung with Cobalt flats and the pups raised to the max. Bridge pup always stays off, neck pup and right hand position gives me nearly every sound I need, tone is frequently set to zero and occasionally bumped to 2 or 3 if needed for clarity, never set above 5.
The bass feels very much at home in Black Keys, Hugo and Gary Clark Jr type tunes with a driving bottom end. It's also equally well suited for piano and orchestra type settings as well as smooth jazz tunes needing a creamy smooth bass with minimal emphasis on attack but a bold sustain and decay.
Important to note - this is not my most flexible sounding bass (think 2015 or VP for that) but it out performs all my other birds for about half the music I normally play. And to think, I only paid $150 for the bass, $85 for the bridge, $35 for the strings and about $5 for the pot and cap. A total of $275 for a killer bass, wish all my other birds had a bang to buck ratio like that.
My main player for the last several weeks...
It doesn't have the fast neck like my Anniversary Bird. And although it's very close it's still not quite as authoritative and biting as the Greco. Not nearly as gritty as the VP or as flexible as the 2015 either. And doesn't cut through quite as well as the BaCH equipped with chrome flats. But what it does do magnitudes better than all the rest is lay down an earth shaking chest pounding deep thick defined bottom end in massive volume levels even at the lowest of settings on the volume knob.
The .022uf tone cap (and maybe to a very small degree the 500k linear tone pot) transformed this Goth from a nice playing middle of the road bird to an absolute beast. None of my other birds can touch it in depth and volume. Keep in mind these are the stock Goth pups which are up around 14K ohms, I have it strung with Cobalt flats and the pups raised to the max. Bridge pup always stays off, neck pup and right hand position gives me nearly every sound I need, tone is frequently set to zero and occasionally bumped to 2 or 3 if needed for clarity, never set above 5.
The bass feels very much at home in Black Keys, Hugo and Gary Clark Jr type tunes with a driving bottom end. It's also equally well suited for piano and orchestra type settings as well as smooth jazz tunes needing a creamy smooth bass with minimal emphasis on attack but a bold sustain and decay.
Important to note - this is not my most flexible sounding bass (think 2015 or VP for that) but it out performs all my other birds for about half the music I normally play. And to think, I only paid $150 for the bass, $85 for the bridge, $35 for the strings and about $5 for the pot and cap. A total of $275 for a killer bass, wish all my other birds had a bang to buck ratio like that.
Cheap LED lighting will do that!
