A TB II in custom colours and with nickel would be attractive, whether it be rev or NR. A 60's spec TB IV in burst would not sell many units in my opinion, whether nickel or not, because as far as the general market is concerned it would be just another TB.
I always said those things are ugly ducklings elevated to cult status via nostalgy impairing eyesight. :P
I would go for this except for the fact that $3500 for a bass is way out of my price range. So I would support it wholeheartedly knowing I couldn't get one.
Well there would be the warranty issues when the headstocks started breaking.
Well there would be the warranty issues when the headstocks started breaking.
Sounds like we're almost back to the one Gibson DID make in 2012!
Well there would be the warranty issues when the headstocks started breaking.
:popcorn::popcorn: Indeed! We're all just pissing up a rope anyway - if Gibson were to build it they'd screw it up like everything else ;D
None of the Custom Shop TBirds I have seen ever went back to 60ies specs. The one exception is Phil Jones' Korinabird he built from a discarded Francis Buchholz project. But that was more a love child of his (he built it for himself) rather than regular CS fare.
I'm actually seeing him play with Michael Schenker on Friday, he and Hermann Rarebell are in the current line up.
The only known player I now know for sure did use the grabber, was mr. Simmons - guess he saved a few bucks not buying
the ripper :mrgreen:
Saw it now, they are at least honest about it, especially Gene ("At that time, live, I made tons of mistakes."). But his best quip is at 11:22 when talking about the Nothing to Lose lyric ... "But(t?) what poetry!".
Whether they invented the live double album is another matter though. I remember the early and mid-seventies as the age of the live double album. Grand Funk's Live Album, Humble Pie's Rockin' the Fillmore, DP's Made in Japan, Allman Brothers' Live at Fillmore Eat, Rare Earth's In Concert, Uriah Heep's Live '73, ELP's Welcome Back my Friends to the Show That Never Ends and Yes' Yessongs were all double (or more) albums, million sellers and pretty much in every household, years before Kiss Alive. Matter of fact back then having a live album in a gatefold sleeve out was considered de rigueur if you were worth your salt as a live band. Kiss with their Alive album weren't so much leading the way but, in a last ditch effort to make it, hopping the bandwagon.
I never thought that Kiss Alive sounded that much like a live experience ... I think they got the big arena sound down nicely, but the performance didn't quite have the frantic intensity you might expect with an act like Kiss. Kiss bootlegs from the era sound, bum notes aside, more frantic and "falling over one another in excitement". Alive sounded not so much of the moment, but a bit calculated. Which we now know from the vid it was! :mrgreen: Doesn't matter, it put them on the map and is a fun album to hear, especially Peter's (over-)phased drum solo! I sure liked my copy (with the SS-runes on Peter's kick drum airbrushed out as was mandatory in Germany where showing Nazi insignia outside of their historical context is a criminal offense). No wonder I couldn't recognize that Gene played a Grabber and not a Ripper! :mrgreen: Us poor Krauts also didn't get the booklet, probably because it had the SS-runes all over it.
German cover as it came out in 75:
(http://www.popsike.com/pix/20060609/4893510571.jpg)
German cover in later years, Kiss had money to pay for proper photo doctoring:
(https://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/0600753103654.jpg)
US cover:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Kiss_alive_album_cover.jpg)
I completely believe that. Mostly the trouble with KISS I remember (I saw them in December, 1976) was that lots of people thought "KISS" meant "Knights In Satan's Service". Heh.
There's a Thunderbird in this one. 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GscQxZQBF0