The Last Bass Outpost

For what it's worth, those look exactly like the tuners from my LPB1 of similar age. Per Rob's bass book they are "Gibson-branded Schaller".
I think Gearhed is right and they are Schaller M4.
Unfortunately, based on a little searching, I've seen brand new tuners called "Schaller M4" as well as vintage ones going back at least to the 70s, and the current ones look very different.  It's also confusing because there are various suffixes meaning I don't know what, but the M4S is completely different.

This one from about 1990 looks right to me, but chrome:
https://reverb.com/item/78037879-schaller-bass-tuner-m-4l-in-line-1990-chrome

This one purportedly from the 1970s looks similar, but the post is a little different. https://reverb.com/item/70648599-bass-side-schaller-m4-bass-tuner-1970-s-gold-m4g-original-vintage

Scorpions were a darn good band, but yeah, those lyrics ...  Many years ago a bunch of friends sat around a bonfire discussing "what is the worst song ever?" and while a lot of the usual suspects came up, I believe there was consensus that "Winds of Change" was pretty awful, largely because of the cheesy whistling and the word salad lyrics.

(Personally I still think there are much much worse songs ... "We didn't start the fire" comes to mind)

Even bands with just a single guitarist did it via double-tracking in the studio to get that sound.

The earliest "rock twin lead" example that jumps to my mind is this from 1966, well before any of the bands in this thread existed:


And of course, there was Les Paul well before that, who as usual was years ahead of everyone, but that's not really "rock".

Is there actually any significant difference between rosewood and pau ferro aside from the latter being usually a lighter color, and bragging rights?

I've always been in the "tonewoods are overblown" camp though

It's a beautiful design. I'm looking forward to seeing the brass ones completed!

When did they make the ones that look like split pickups (a coil for the low strings and a coil for the high strings, like a P but different) crammed into the black soapbar case?
I have always wondered what those sound like - and what basses they came in.

My only experience of TB-Plus pickups is in my LPB-1 which I believe is circa 1992. Still my favorite sounding bass.

Looks and sounds beautiful as always from Brooks!

Do my eyes deceive me or is the pickup slightly closer to the bridge than on a P bass?

Are these the same size/dimensions as vintage chrome thunderbird pickups?
I seem to recall reading on this forum that modern TB Plus are slightly different (taller maybe?) than vintage, but I don’t recall exactly and may be conflating something.