The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: gearHed289 on April 16, 2013, 02:45:31 PM
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Here - http://www.ebay.com/itm/171023266177?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
The most painful part - "This bass started life with a traffic cone orange finish, but has been refinished in a classic green and yellow John Deere motif with an old school John Deere applique added." :-\ :rolleyes: :sad:
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Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
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Ah a tractor bass.
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I'm not sure what kind of music you would want to play with a bass like that ??? Certainly nothing I'm familiar with :o.
Rick
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It's the perfect bass to play in your tractor while you're plowing the fields. You have to wear your JD gimme cap while playing.
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THAT is the perfect instrument to play while singing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"!!! ;D :mrgreen:
(Smilies in John Deere yellow & green just for the right touch.)
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I wear a John Deere cap I've had since I was five when I play and my bass has the same pickups as that one... and the idiot who did that to that bass needs to be kicked in the dick.
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I'm far more offended by that headstock.
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I'm far more offended by that headstock.
True, I could live with the color, I even find it kinda nice :P but that headstock is completely out of place.
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Note that the bass is being sold by a store in Wichita, Kansas. This explains many things.
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I'm far more offended by that headstock.
Isn't that the standard RS Guitarworks headstock shape? This isn't a homemade copy, RS doesn't want to get sued by Fender for cloning their headstock shape.
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Since so very few were made by RS I would not be surpised to find that one to be the very same bass that I purchased from Scott and then later sold thru BassNW.
I really don't get on with "Pee" sized necks - The pups, you want to love them 'cause they're chrome but they are a bit on the weak, listless side. Still sad to see it looking this way.
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THAT is the perfect instrument to play while singing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"!!! ;D :mrgreen:
(Smilies in John Deere yellow & green just for the right touch.)
I was gonna say that!!!!! Well, I guess you can make anything and there will be an audience for it somewhere. Ugh. Say, should JD sue these guys? Everyone else seems to these days.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm I'm a a IH Farmall man myself. Makes me sorry I sold the poor thing. Well RS is in Tennessee :rolleyes:
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Oi karnt reed an' oi karnt wroit but oi cain play a traktor... (to the tune of an old footie chant)
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm I'm a a IH Farmall man myself. Makes me sorry I sold the poor thing. Well RS is in Tennessee :rolleyes:
No they're not. They're in Winchester, Kentucky, much closer to Ohio than Tennessee. Besides, RS didn't do the John Deere finish. The fact that the music store knows the original color and says it's a refin makes me think they did that finish (or knows who did) but don't want to take credit for it. There's nothing wrong with a tractor-themed bass, but this is one of RS's limited run Explorer-birds. Anyone looking to resell it after painting it like that doesn't get what that bass is about.
The pups, you want to love them 'cause they're chrome but they are a bit on the weak, listless side.
I've speculated that those Fralin custom pickups were designed around a tube guitar preamp. They don't sound very T-Birdy at all until they're fed into a high impedance tube input stage. Then, they get VERY growly. Into most s/s bass amp preamps, they would be pretty listless.
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Maybe Derek Smalls commissioned it to play "Sex Farm"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUBZiwio0w
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Your right Kentucky! My bad. When I had the bass it sounded great through the Hiwatts. I know Mark was pretty disappointed in their sound, wonder if he was using SS rig at the time?
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Nothing a pair of TB+ can't fix. :)
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Your right Kentucky! My bad. When I had the bass it sounded great through the Hiwatts. I know Mark was pretty disappointed in their sound, wonder if he was using SS rig at the time?
Yeah, GK 1001RBII. Still, no love lost. It's a sometimes expensive epiphany to realize that one was meant to play a single type of bass - For me that's a Reverse Thunderbird, anything else just doesn't last around my house.
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Have you ever tried a prolonged session with an RD...?
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Have you ever tried a prolonged session with an RD...?
Uwe's re-issue, I had my way with it quite a few times ;)
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Has that finally sated that lust or do you still hanker after an Artist for a while...? Mind you, weren't you entertaining the thought of an Explorer (or maybe a Carlo E'bird?) ...?