Dear Thomann
Please stop selling new Gibson basses at second hand prices.
Thanks,
My credit card
(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/midtown/01.jpg)
(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/midtown/02.jpg)
Nice! Don't be too hard on your credit card. ;D After all, now's the time if you want one, AFAIK they won't be in the 2015 lineup.
Looks good!!!!
Looking great!
Congratulations!
And sounds good too!
Classic!
I approve this message.
Congrats!
Envy from your lowland's cousin... :mrgreen:
My first bass was an almost unplayable Kent Hollowbody. One of the newer Gibson hollows would be a nice nostalgia replacement.
Mine was a Grenn EB2/Rivoli copy with a bolt on neck and action above the 12th that you could drive a truck through so +1 on the nostalgia...
Definitely up there on the wish list...
Would definitely like one of those - congrats, OP...
- georgestrings
Quote from: OldManC on October 28, 2014, 05:37:39 PM
My first bass was an almost unplayable Kent Hollowbody. One of the newer Gibson hollows would be a nice nostalgia replacement.
And you never repaired that SB either. :popcorn:
Congrats! I love my red lefty.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/photo5_zps3b4c6f3e.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/photo5_zps3b4c6f3e.jpg.html)
Man, that is one phat G string there! ;)
Seriously, this "upside down" approach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkurH-MEtA
must affect your whole playing in a way that you should sound like pretty much no one else! I remember a Michael Schenker interview where he raved about the UFO-/MSG-rhythm guitarist/keyboardsmith Paul Raymond who strums a Non Rev Firebird like that (i.e. strings "righty", but played "lefty") saying that "everything that Paul plays sounds a little different because of him having the strings in the "wrong" sequence, I am always searching for that sound".
Quote from: uwe on October 29, 2014, 06:01:31 AM
And you never repaired that SB either. :popcorn:
True. It's totally playable as is and sounds good. It needs the bridge sorted way more than a new truss rod (the plastic saddles are disintegrating). I originally planned to route it out, paint it white, and add Thunderbird pickups but I grew to like the little ones in it and a few years ago saw a photo of one somebody sprayed seafoam green (I think) and it looked fantastic, so that's my eventual plan for this one.
I never forget. :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader:
Quote from: uwe on October 29, 2014, 12:52:01 PM
I never forget. :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader:
:mrgreen: