Where on the official Gibson site can this be found? I couldn't when I tried just now. Sigh, this is going to be one expensive year for me!!!
Rob, in all fairness, the original RD, the Standard (and Novoselic played those too and liked their passice set-up over the "active-only"-one of the later Artists) was to all intents and purposes Gibson's renewed take on a Jazz Bass (sixties TB IV and seventies Ripper had been previous attempts). The stacked humbuckers with a narrow singele coilish magnetic field (courtesy of Bill Lawrence I believe) and their placement were a dead giveaway. This was at the height of the late seventies Jazz Bass craze, with Jaco having wildly repopularized the instrument as a weapon of choice. And you can actually play fusion with a Standard, it has that slightly bony sound.
Great that they've brought this out and for once at a fitting moment. Nevermind (pun), how I continue to be unimpressed about Nirvana's inability of grasp of harmonic chord relationships (some of those chord changes still grate on me after twenty years, I can't stand that augmented fourth/diminished fifth/tritone stuff unless you go for the doomladden effect it has, eg Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, but not on every song please).
I bet those Seymour Duncans will sound great.
