The Last Bass Outpost

My two faux birds waiting for the rocking to commence last night.....

Well, if you remember those bands, then you must have heard of The Boyzz, The Hounds, Buster, Europe, Trillion, Cincinnati Bombers...

Those were my Chicago club years.  The "Hot Love" video that came with the DVD in Special One was shot at The Night Gallery.

I remember the Boyzz and Hounds. Trillion too - weren't they kind of prog???

The first two CT albums came out the year I started playing bass. They were unlike anything I'd ever seen or heard. I was a total KISS geek at the time, and they had a lot of those same pop meets metal qualities. Petersson's bass tone was, again, unlike anything I'd ever heard. I hadn't discovered Entwistle yet, and it would be years later before I realized what a huge influence the Who had on CT. I still remember the first time I heard Surrender on the radio. Went and got the 8 track and blasted that in the under-dash 8 track player in my cousin's car all summer. 

The thing that set them apart from other power pop bands was Nielson's sinister lyrical edge. He snuck a lot of social commentary into some cute pop ditties. None of the local bands that followed did anything for me - Off Broadway, the Kind, Enuff Z'Nuff...... 

I'm going to buy this new record.

I've rarely seen a fourpiece (with the singer only playing rhythm guitar on two or three songs) with as full and massive a sound.

Backing tracks. I've heard from production guys out with the Crue that there are parts where Nikki can take his hands off the bass, and the bass keeps coming out of the speakers. Lots of subtle sweetening going on all around apparently.

I guess actually playing everything the audience hears went out with good riffs? Industrial rock and dance bands obviously need tracks. But a four piece rock band? That's weak. There's a very popular local cover band here in Chicago that uses massive tracks live, and nobody seems to care. They get to the chorus of any given song, and all of a sudden it's like, "hey, who turned on the radio?" They do sound Heavenly though!  

Improves balance for sure. I was nervous too, but seem to have done OK with the stock Schaller strap lock screw.

Looks like you got the early "thick body" Bbird. Nice mods. I was initially planning to add a second pup, but I think I'm good with just the one chromified TB+ and some good pots/jack. I thought you had a pickguard with the bird on it?

There's a guy on ebay who always seems to have some of those Gibson TRCs available. That's where I got mine.

I put a piece of white electrical tape over the BaCH logo for now. It's barely noticeable.