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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Sid is reborn
« on: January 23, 2024, 12:24:38 PM »
Black with a blonde mohawk.
Jean Beauvoir ant would be more accurate😎
Jean Beauvoir ant would be more accurate😎
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Sid is reborn
« on: January 23, 2024, 07:39:56 AM »
I can't remember Sid Vicious ever having a mohawk. He just had spikey black hair, didn't he?
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird
« on: January 20, 2024, 05:57:54 AM »
Yeah another example of a bass player who does not know the difference. Like I mentioned in a post above, there really are a lot of them.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)
« on: January 20, 2024, 02:33:33 AM »
Lamont Johnson on a Fretless Ripper
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird
« on: January 19, 2024, 07:39:22 AM »
so they're definitely not bicentennial sidewinders at all
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)
« on: January 19, 2024, 03:36:00 AM »
A Grabber with Death From Above 1979
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird
« on: January 19, 2024, 01:18:07 AM »No worries, I don’t have a single Pantera CD. When they became big, I couldn’t follow that music anymore.
I know that they were hugely influential + that the late Dimebag Darrell has become a metal guitar icon, but their brand of brutish and heavy-handed metal never did anything for me. I like my music with some elegance and swing.
Same here.
I had never heard of Rex Brown until Gibson decided to release a Thunderbird signature for him.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird
« on: January 18, 2024, 01:12:00 PM »
Maybe the folks at Epiphone/Gibson don't even know the bicentennial T-bird had completely different pickups than the sixties Tbird.
And they're not the only ones.
In november 2023 I got a phone call from a German pickup maker who had taken up the plan to make a Thunderbird pickup. He wanted to know where he could obtain pickup covers. You'd expect a pickup maker/electronics specialist would have done some research on what he was going to imitate. But he had no clue whatsoever. Hadn't even noticed the different screw pattern on the covers. Let alone that he knew the bicentennial humbuckers are sidewinder pickups.
And also Thunderbird players don't always know the difference. Two customers of mine have been playing a 1978 Thunderbird for years, but had no idea the sixties Thunderbird had completely different pickups until I told them they did.
I guess we are a bunch of trainspotters over here at the Outpost ;-)
And they're not the only ones.
In november 2023 I got a phone call from a German pickup maker who had taken up the plan to make a Thunderbird pickup. He wanted to know where he could obtain pickup covers. You'd expect a pickup maker/electronics specialist would have done some research on what he was going to imitate. But he had no clue whatsoever. Hadn't even noticed the different screw pattern on the covers. Let alone that he knew the bicentennial humbuckers are sidewinder pickups.
And also Thunderbird players don't always know the difference. Two customers of mine have been playing a 1978 Thunderbird for years, but had no idea the sixties Thunderbird had completely different pickups until I told them they did.
I guess we are a bunch of trainspotters over here at the Outpost ;-)
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: January 18, 2024, 09:57:45 AM »
The Analogues do a great Beatles tribute:
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird
« on: January 18, 2024, 06:58:54 AM »Interesting, Scott. I look forward to your review. The Epiphone web site says ProBucker 760.
Exactly. That is what it says in the specs.
Bicentennial pickups are very different.
They are sidewinder pickups. And sound nothing like the ProBucker.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: January 16, 2024, 10:50:05 AM »Which was a (spirited) cover of this one here (at 03:16)!
Yeah same song. That's what I meant.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone Rex Brown Thunderbird
« on: January 16, 2024, 10:36:15 AM »
€1500... that's a lot of money for an Epiphone
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: January 16, 2024, 10:25:53 AM »
You can hear the autotune doing overtime on the UDO recording. It sounds awful. 
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: January 16, 2024, 10:06:21 AM »
Always thought it was a bit of a rip-off from this song
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Brooks EB-TB-IV
« on: January 16, 2024, 09:09:17 AM »
Thank you guys!
I'm still learning. And making mistakes (and fixing them) with each build ;-)
But it sure is nice to get some appreciation for what I do.
I'm still learning. And making mistakes (and fixing them) with each build ;-)
But it sure is nice to get some appreciation for what I do.