More mod collection basses. Tbirds too

[uwe]

The eternal adolescent in me likes this! Cool look,
Mary-Janes will get stuck on you like flies in a net.

[Basvarken]

I wonder what those pickups are. Looks like they are intended for multi-scale bass guitars.

[uwe]

I'd like them to flicker in various patterns while the bass is being played - is that an option?

I have a hunch they stem from some secret underground IDF facility in the Negev desert.

[OldManC]

I'm surprised this bird isn't already winging its way to Germany.

[Dave W]

I'm surprised this bird isn't already winging its way to Germany.

AFAIK he hasn't bought anything new since his office moved and part of his collection went into storage.

This one is unique but no match for the Silly Purple Clown Bass.

[Alanko]

The Gibson bass raubkunst has temporarily gestoppt! Gott in Himmel!

[uwe]

Alan!!!!

 

PS: Dave is right, I've called a halt to compulsive Gibson bass collecting and haven't bought anything more recently other than the LP Junior Tribute (which I haven't regretted, one of the best short scales on the market). It was getting out of hand and burdening my heirs! And George is right as well, in my heyday, I would have gobbled that Spidey TBird up in a sec.

I still get tempted though. While you guys tend to rave about things that pretend to be vintage and emulate historic hardware, I like progress and attempting things differently. So the T.-Rex Brown Bird has some allure for me even though I don't own a single Pantera CD (and if I'm honest I don't even like Rex' trebly overdriven sound, but I'd like to hear what else that bass can do). An active TBird from Gibson has never existed before.

[slinkp]

but I'd like to hear what else that bass can do

Here's something... Still very bright and almost all with a pick, but at least he solos the individual pickups about 10 minutes in... with a very weird attempt at fingerstyle played right on the bridge after that ... and then finally turns the tone down around 12 minutes.

[TBird1958]

Wait... what?

 


 I like it, a chrome 3 point is the path to enlightenment!

[uwe]

Here's something... Still very bright and almost all with a pick, but at least he solos the individual pickups about 10 minutes in... with a very weird attempt at fingerstyle played right on the bridge after that ... and then finally turns the tone down around 12 minutes.

That doesn't sound half-bad and the passive mode is not ridiculously different in sound and output to the active one.

[Ken]

Has anyone ever seen Dagan and Russell Brand in a room together?

[Alanko]

I would much rather hang out with Dagon than Russell Brand. I would go get a chicken parmo with Dagan then hit up a few pubs up 'the toon'. Lockdown has turned Brand into a weirdo one stop short of being a cult leader.

[uwe]

Yup, definitely an intellectual decline.