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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: gearHed289 on June 22, 2010, 11:22:14 AM
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Some interesting Gibson basses here - http://www.cheaptrick.com (http://www.cheaptrick.com)
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Yeah, pretty cool. Nice to him back on the T-Birds again. I've got a shot of him from the 25th (30th?) Anniversary show with an Epiphone Embassy. I had one of his Embassies for over 20 years. By far my favorite bass, but I had to sell it. I found a nice home for it in Chicago (fur85 from the old Pit now owns it). Among the people who owned that bass before me were:
Tom Petersson
Jon Brandt (who didn't know it was once Petersson's)
Dave Angell
All names that I'm sure Tom Heslin recognizes.
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I am going to see Cheap Trick on 7/11 in Cleveland :) Compliments of Tom, I'm pretty excited :)
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(http://www.cheaptrick.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/06-11-10-dawn-tom/tp6.jpg)
Nice bridge on that bird! Great shots. Thanks for posting the link.
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Is that a Dasson, by any chance, or one of those cheap (tricky) and nasty imitations...?
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White Thunderbird II
Gotta have!
That's it, I'm auctioning my semi functional liver. Any Takers?!
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Is that a Dasson, by any chance, or one of those cheap (tricky) and nasty imitations...?
One of my bridges I believe ;)
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If that's his main one, I believe it's had the headstock put back on a couple of times :)
I've got a couple of Tom's former basses....ironically, two that are related. The "Busted" album Hamer 12-string with the album graphic on the front & back and "BUSTED" inlaid down the neck (it's a rare medium scale with a maple fingerboard!) This was supposed to be in a music video for the album but didn't get to the shoot in time, so Tom decided to use....the other bass of his that I happen to also have...his Hamer Thunderbird 8-string one-off. He also used this 8-string when he toured with Concrete Blonde and did TV appearances with them around 1990-91.
Both have the standard Petersson three quarter-inch jack outputs and three toggle switches, so each pickup goes to a separate amp and can be turned on/off.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~mc2/images/PeterssonBassesWeb.jpg)
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Okay.......My stunt liver too............ ;)
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Jon, I want my old 8 string back!!!!!!! However...tonight I did try out the 12. VERY KICK ASS!!!! You will want to buy it from me.
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White Thunderbird II
Gotta have!
That's it, I'm auctioning my semi functional liver. Any Takers?!
Planning on adding "Driving Sister" to The Nasty Habits set list? :mrgreen:
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Hmmmmm.........our singer has a couple saxes, perhaps "All the way to Memphis".
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Saxes??? I thought it was a couple of ......
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(after an interruption of just about right time)... sexes?
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thank goodness I got my wash-n-type keyboard... I've ruined far too may with these coffee spurts...
(http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/_News/_SLIDESHOWS/Top10Gadgets/SS_ten_cool_gadgets_keyboard.jpg)
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(after an interruption of just about right time)... sexes?
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
One way or another we now know she blows. Horns.
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What this Les Paul bass?
(http://www.cheaptrick.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/06-11-10-dawn-tom/tp9.jpg)
A custom job perhaps, with those pickup positions?
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I noticed that and the stop bar bridge/tailpiece.
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What this Les Paul bass?
(http://www.cheaptrick.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/06-11-10-dawn-tom/tp9.jpg)
A custom job perhaps, with those pickup positions?
Looks like one of the early prototypes. Uwe has one of them but I don't remember if he has one with a bar. What must it be like to have the connections Tom Petersson has to score cool basses? He seems to be rivaling Rick these days (maybe not in numbers, but certainly in cool pieces)! :o
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Yeah, a prototype most likely. Phil Jones, crafter of the nineties LP series, experimented some with the pup positioning and also the bridge before he went first for the tried and trusted three point and then for the Warwick bridge. But there were Epi LPs with similar bridges and the recent BFG LP Bass has something akin too. Intonation range is limited on those though, cool looks or not.
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Thanks Uwe. How's the sound, more barky/honky with both pickups on than on the subsequent production model?
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I don't have a prototype like that but I have other LP basses with different pup positions. Except in cases where you have a real neck pup right behind the fretboard, the differences are slight.
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I don't have a prototype like that but I have other LP basses with different pup positions. Except in cases where you have a real neck pup right behind the fretboard, the differences are slight.
Kinda like the different positions on a Grabber. :P ;)
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What this Les Paul bass?
(http://www.cheaptrick.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/06-11-10-dawn-tom/tp9.jpg)
A custom job perhaps, with those pickup positions?
So, Austin Powers is now playing bass for Cheap Trick?
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Billy...! shame on you... :mrgreen:
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So, Austin Powers is now playing bass for Cheap Trick?
Hahahahahaha!!!!!
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If Tom got that white thunderbird II from Chicago Music Exchange/Scott Silver...then that's 4 basses I've owned/restored that he owns!!!! Damn!!!
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Tom's white one is my old one as is his green IV refin.. I JUST bought 2 1964 II's from Tom last week....
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Yes, But you got the Krry Green one from dave Schrader who got it from me. And the white one...with the white headstock...I beleive...maybe I'm off...but I beleive that is the one I had RS refin and relic with the white headstock.....that is...If you got it from Silver. Nice score on the birds!!!