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Title: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 25, 2010, 11:35:00 AM

Wow, I'd only ever seen the orange one.  :o Drool....

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/35557.jpg)

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: dadagoboi on August 25, 2010, 11:58:26 AM

Where did you find THAT?  Very Cool.

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: ilan on August 25, 2010, 12:34:03 PM

It's an Explender. A fugly Explender IMHO.

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: godofthunder on August 25, 2010, 12:57:24 PM

Gold hardware  :o

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: dadagoboi on August 25, 2010, 01:41:43 PM

JAE loved gold stuff.  Had Fender Custom Shop make him a Jazz, a P and a Strat all in Blonde ash w/gold hardware.  Used Thomastik Infield gold plated strings when he stopped playing Rotosounds.  Probably plays bass for Elvis now ;D

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: Highlander on August 25, 2010, 03:23:15 PM

Another Peter Cook build...

The official description (JAE) is "puke green" iirc

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: ilan on August 25, 2010, 10:59:07 PM

Quote from: dadagoboi on August 25, 2010, 01:41:43 PM

Used Thomastik Infield gold plated strings when he stopped playing Rotosounds

I thought they were Maximas?

(http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/bass/89-jae-ad-maxima.jpg)

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: uwe on August 25, 2010, 11:38:01 PM

Maxima is (was) German, and TIs are Austrian. JAE played the former but given that it really is - or should be  :o - one country, the slight geographical inaccuracy is forgiven. Just goes to show that artificial borders fail to gain acceptance with the larger public.  8)

(http://www.wien-vienna.com/images_english/anschluss11.jpg)

Switzerland is nice too. They speak Deutsch there, ja.

 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Fenderbirds are already an acquired taste as regards visuals, but this Explender is the strongest argument against cross-breeding I've seen for a while!  ;)

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: dadagoboi on August 26, 2010, 03:20:32 AM

Quote from: ilan on August 25, 2010, 10:59:07 PM

I thought they were Maximas?

Sorry, I must have been high.

Uwe, you're scaring me with your logic.

Title: Re: JAE green Explorerbird!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 26, 2010, 08:03:29 AM

Quote from: godofthunder on August 25, 2010, 12:57:24 PM

Gold hardware  :o

The orange one has gold hardware too. In his book it says he gave a white one to Townsend.

(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9174/jaeexplorerbird.jpg) (http://img201.imageshack.us/i/jaeexplorerbird.jpg/)

I happen to love the Explorerbird, mostly due to a fascination that started the first time I saw the Kids are Alright. Mystified me for decades until the internet came along.  ;D I'd build one except for the fact that most people would just think it was a Hondo from the 80s.  :rolleyes: