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NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« on: October 26, 2014, 06:28:17 PM »
Dear Thomann

Please stop selling new Gibson basses at second hand prices.

Thanks,

My credit card



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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2014, 08:36:01 PM »
Nice! Don't be too hard on your credit card.  ;D  After all, now's the time if you want one, AFAIK they won't be in the 2015 lineup.
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2014, 08:55:00 PM »
Looks good!!!!
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2014, 11:20:12 PM »

 Looking great!

Congratulations!
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2014, 06:07:28 AM »
And sounds good too!
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2014, 07:04:33 AM »
Classic!
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2014, 10:14:37 AM »
I approve this message.


Congrats!
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2014, 02:30:47 PM »
Envy from your lowland's cousin... :mrgreen:
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2014, 04:37:39 PM »
My first bass was an almost unplayable Kent Hollowbody. One of the newer Gibson hollows would be a nice nostalgia replacement.
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2014, 05:16:08 PM »
Mine was a Grenn EB2/Rivoli copy with a bolt on neck and action above the 12th that you could drive a truck through so +1 on the nostalgia...
Definitely up there on the wish list...
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2014, 05:37:43 PM »
Would definitely like one of those - congrats, OP...


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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2014, 05:01:31 AM »
Quote from: OldManC on October 28, 2014, 04:37:39 PM
My first bass was an almost unplayable Kent Hollowbody. One of the newer Gibson hollows would be a nice nostalgia replacement.

And you never repaired that SB either.  :popcorn:
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2014, 06:27:48 AM »
Congrats! I love my red lefty.
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2014, 07:29:59 AM »
Man, that is one phat G string there!  ;)

Seriously, this "upside down" approach



must affect your whole playing in a way that you should sound like pretty much no one else! I remember a Michael Schenker interview where he raved about the UFO-/MSG-rhythm guitarist/keyboardsmith Paul Raymond who strums a Non Rev Firebird like that (i.e. strings "righty", but played "lefty") saying that "everything that Paul plays sounds a little different because of him having the strings in the "wrong" sequence, I am always searching for that sound".
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Re: NBD: Gibson Midtown Standard
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2014, 11:48:22 AM »
Quote from: uwe on October 29, 2014, 05:01:31 AM
And you never repaired that SB either.  :popcorn:

True. It's totally playable as is and sounds good. It needs the bridge sorted way more than a new truss rod (the plastic saddles are disintegrating). I originally planned to route it out, paint it white, and add Thunderbird pickups but I grew to like the little ones in it and a few years ago saw a photo of one somebody sprayed seafoam green (I think) and it looked fantastic, so that's my eventual plan for this one.
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