The Last Bass Outpost

I love the fact that a primitive breed was able to exist on its own for so long.  And that while such a rare and ancient strain, they still go batty in the park and take a dump.  That stuff just intrigues me though, kind of the same way I love finding out about people who have heritage/ancient apple varieties still growing in odd places.  My grandmother had an ancient Roxbury Russet tree in her yard in Roxbury, MA of all places.

You don't have to go so far to find ancient strains of dogs.  Our Johnny Reb friends have been chasing these things away for a few hundred years now.
http://www.carolinadogs.org/geninfo/primative.html

Not to throw out a cliche, but the sky is the limit.  I guess how I would do it depends on me, so how do you like to mess around?  If tone is kind of important you could use a stack pot, like a 62 RI Jazz, for one control.  It could hold the master tone for all three pups.  I would incorporate push-pull pots for any tone mod that I would not use all the time - so for your humbucker (is it a mudbucker or something else like a DiMarzio?) you could have the push/pull mod the wiring from series to parrallel, and you can do that to the P pup as well.  I don't know how hard it is to get those S-1 switches from Fender, but that is a neat trick to do the same thing.  You could have a push/pull pot to bypass the tone as well.  I personally don't like mini toggles, so if I can replace one volume or tone pot with a push pull I do that.  In theory you could have all three pups run in series, or anything else you can think of.  I try to limit myself to Sleeper mods, to use a hot rod term. 

My personal concept is if you don't like a pup, you can turn it down, so I would use push pulls to alter wiring.

I almost installed a mudbucker in an old Fender, and didn't have the heart to cob it up.  There was a thread here about other people who have done it besides Billy Sheehan, and it was not unknown in the 60s. I would do it to an aftermarket body or copy.   

But Hip Hop is a good reason.

That has a feedback block, no?  If so, you could stud anchor a Schaller 401, and do it up long scale.  Or a Kahler non-whammy.  Maybe even go Epi-traditional and mount 4 individual pieces on an elegant slant.  Or the new hipshot.  So many choices....

About the only thing I wouldn't do is an arch top bridge and tailpiece, like on that fancy pants ES-175 bass they did. 

Those are great pics!  I am not sure what type it is, although we have plenty of hawks here in MN.  I had one divebomb down on a squirrel a few years ago while I was having a cup of joe on the back porch.  He dropped down on the neighbor's ancient metal shed to eat it, and the sound of a squirrel getting eaten alive while the talons clanged on the metal roof was really fascinating and disturbing at the same time - not as bad as Motley Crue, but close.  The hawks look really cool when they open their wings, as they are huge and have that checker pattern.

I grabbed this shot of the tree across the street two years ago.  Not the best shot, but worth sharing I think.  The thing to imagine is that these bald eagles are both the size of a cocker spaniel.  Makes you want to hide the kids.

Those only came with two pickups, no?  Might add a couple of bucks.  That would be fantastic, though.

Fleetwood Mac on the Eddie Boyd Blue Thumb lp.  The Yardbirds on the Philamore Lincoln lp.  McVie and Fleetwood on Werewolves of London.  The Beach Boys backing up Elton John and Chicago on vocals, and Flo and Eddie vocals all over things.  George Harrison on Basketball Jones with Cheech and Chong.  There's a bunch I like.