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Tom Petersson
« on: June 22, 2010, 11:22:14 AM »
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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2010, 12:59:49 PM »
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

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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2010, 01:07:07 PM »
I am going to see Cheap Trick on 7/11 in Cleveland :) Compliments of Tom, I'm pretty excited  :)
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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2010, 03:25:45 PM »


Nice bridge on that bird! Great shots. Thanks for posting the link.

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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2010, 03:31:45 PM »
Is that a Dasson, by any chance, or one of those cheap (tricky) and nasty imitations...?
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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2010, 05:49:46 PM »


 White Thunderbird II

Gotta have!


That's it, I'm auctioning my semi functional liver. Any Takers?!



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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2010, 06:38:28 PM »
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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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2010, 07:11:57 PM »
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.

« Last Edit: June 23, 2010, 02:39:09 PM by mc2NY »

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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2010, 09:42:11 PM »


Okay.......My stunt liver too............  ;)
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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2010, 10:28:11 PM »
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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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2010, 09:00:10 AM »

 White Thunderbird II

Gotta have!

That's it, I'm auctioning my semi functional liver. Any Takers?!


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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2010, 09:05:46 AM »

Hmmmmm.........our singer has a couple saxes, perhaps "All the way to Memphis".
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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2010, 10:21:59 AM »
Saxes??? I thought it was a couple of ......

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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2010, 10:23:17 AM »
(after an interruption of just about right time)... sexes?

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Re: Tom Petersson
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2010, 12:19:35 PM »
thank goodness I got my wash-n-type keyboard... I've ruined far too may with these coffee spurts...

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