thank you so so so so much for the responses guys you're alot more friendly over here than at talkbass
I think an EB-2 with a tech 21 VT Bass pedal to brighten and grit out some of that "dark cloud" people talk about when they say eb-2 and make it more rock n roll friendly is gonna be my choice just because the double pickup eb-2D's are soooooo much harder to find!
sound like a solid plan?
as far as the tbird thing goes, I know its been done for ages, but again especially with a lot of the same people that pushed them in the early 00's working wih us now, and already hearing "you look a lot like jared" thing, and being in nashville the last thing i need is people blahing to me about being a copy cat