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Messages - mc2NY

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The Bass Zone / Re: Stu Cook Basses
« on: May 22, 2016, 08:35:32 PM »

I don't think it's easy to sound like John Fogerty's vocals. He has a very distinct sound and odd pronunciation of words....almost like a fake Southen accent under his California accent. I used to say Kurt Cobain would have sounded good covering Creedence songs.

But CCR was ranked among the TopTen American bands in its heyday, with John Fogerty writing most of the songs and singing all the leads.  The band had at least a dozen hits and still gets major rdio airplay with a fair number of those hits.

You'd be bitter and pissed off too if you weren't making a cent off those songs if you're were Fogerty.
That is easily $Millions$ in royalties he never received.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)
« on: May 04, 2016, 03:19:34 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on March 31, 2016, 04:08:47 PM
It's just something that a close friend of mine has been saying for years, that no one has ever seen Rick Derringer and Suzi Quatro in the same room at the same time.

I've always wondered which one is the real McCoy 😀

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)
« on: May 02, 2016, 12:08:22 PM »

.....after some mods from a chainsaw 😳


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Gibson Basses / Re: 1986 Thunderbird II Custom Shop Edition..
« on: April 29, 2016, 11:16:15 AM »

Uwe.....Baz had spoken with an old Gibson Custom Shop guy around six months back, who actually built these 80s TBirds. That is where we got the info about them using leftover 70s TBird wings to build them and that they had PJ Marx make the special pickups.

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Gibson Basses / Re: 1986 Thunderbird II Custom Shop Edition..
« on: April 28, 2016, 07:17:55 AM »
Quote from: Lextnc on April 27, 2016, 11:22:39 AM
When I Got it, The Switches were not wired up..  the person that did that used an EMG in it.. but had gone back to the stock pickup before I got it..


Your bass DEFINITELY came from Japan AROUND 10 years back. I had bought my identical one, also from Japan, just a few days before when your's popped up on EBAY. I didn't realize how rare the 80s TBird II run was at the time or else I probably would have grabbed that one as well. But I stupidly passed because of the mini toggles mod.

I haven't seen another for sale since. Love mine. Great bass.

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Gibson Basses / Re: The TB II on ebay
« on: April 26, 2016, 08:23:23 PM »
Quote from: Basvarken on April 26, 2016, 02:07:43 PM
Oh I completely missed the story on that one.
When did that TB VIII pop up?

They made them in late 1990- early '91. I got the black stamped prototype around 2005 or so. I sold it to Uwe in a moment of weakness and having to pay a huge property tax bill a couple years ago.

I have seen four of the other ones...two of the white and two of the red, not countinng the one on the Gbson calendar. The production ones all seem to have gld hardware and PUPs.

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Gibson Basses / Re: 1986 Thunderbird II Custom Shop Edition..
« on: April 26, 2016, 08:08:29 PM »
I know that bass. I had a chance to buy it around 10 years ago but passed because it was modded with the added mini toggle switches. Still a cool bass.

Sounds like Carter/Gruhn are confusing the years.
Yeah, it is a 1986 Gib Custom Shop TBird II. Those were made as a short run for some Japanese Gibson dealers back then. I own a mint one in the same Polaris White color as your's...all from 1986 I believe. I have also seen them in black and sunburst finishes.

Then in 1987 the same Gibson Custom Shop did a limited run of some TBird IV basses with the same bodies with the large headstocks.

I believe all of the 80s ones used leftover TBird wings from the 70s Bi-Centennial ones. Pretty sure the 86's also used leftover 70s PUPs but the 87 TBird IVs had special black non-Gibson custom pickups made for them by PJ Marx, if I recall. Not the same black pickups that Gibson uses in TBirds since around 1990.





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Gibson Basses / Re: The TB II on ebay
« on: April 26, 2016, 12:00:34 PM »
Good guess on the Roman anumeral designations. But you are incorrect, regarding the Thinderbird VIII never being produced.

There are less than 10....8 that I know of...a couple prototypes and a run of six in red and in white. One of the red ones was pictured on a Gibson calendar back around 1991. All dot necks.

This is the prototype I had, now at Casa de Uwe. The pearl Firebird stamped pickguard IS original to the bass.




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The Bass Zone / Re: Prince....playing a live bass solo
« on: April 26, 2016, 08:06:29 AM »


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys&ebc=ANyPxKr0hCua9wEtMW4UPeJCfGzzV4UoYts6eWvjfnrL1oR1Xzkgfcp5Q2sckAhb6TGtAP6u6iFPtydgZnIV54AJGGkBHhIzTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFfoeG3hn0&ebc=ANyPxKr0hCua9wEtMW4UPeJCfGzzV4UoYts6eWvjfnrL1oR1Xzkgfcp5Q2sckAhb6TGtAP6u6iFPtydgZnIV54AJGGkBHhIzTA

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The Bass Zone / Re: Roger Glover
« on: April 25, 2016, 01:03:18 PM »
Quote from: uwe on March 24, 2016, 08:07:07 AM
I'm unable to even get a word out, gulp!



Roger never liked his Ric sound, he thought there was too much distortion, he wanted a smoother "more American sound", "the grass was always greener" for him "on the other side". During the remaster and remix of Machine Head he even described it as "messy with too much side noise".  :mrgreen: And that is why he has what he has with his Vigiers today, a very clean and pure sound with no nasty frequencies (which we all tend to love but he doesn't!). Very much a "producer's bass sound".

He never realized that that Ric sound on Machine Head





and its even more distorted version on the Made in Japan album influenced a whole generation of bass players. I believe he used stacks of Martin bins in the 70ies to boost his sublows (but he probably never heard those sublows on stage with the racket Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore were making). I certainly never found his Machine Head/Made in Japan-era sound anything but full and not too trebly at all.

Did they say anything about Ritchie at RRHOF?

Uwe.....You'd get along well with Patrice Vigier, head of Vigier Guitars. Like you, he is a mega Blackmore/Deep Purple fan. I think Blackmore is his favorite guitarist.

My guitarist was a Vigier endorser for 20 years. I me most of Vigier's various endorsers that she olayed with at NAMM and Frankfurt over the years.

...except Patrice HATES beer and is a wine drinker. His sentiment almost got us killed in a redneck Nashville bar one night when he couldn't understand the southern barmaid asking what kind of beer he wanted....I translated and he started yelling "Beer? I HATE Beer! I am FRENCH!! We drink WINE, not BEER! I HATE BEER...I HATE PLAID SHIRTS..AND FIDDLES AND COUNTRY MUSIC AND...." By then the band stopped playing and everyone was looking at him and I grabbed his arm and said "Um...let's go."  Friggn' hilarious. It had been a long day and the fiddles and pedal steel did him in.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Prince....playing a live bass solo
« on: April 25, 2016, 12:40:16 PM »
I think you sell the little Purple dude short on his playing abilities.

His James Brown move, where he falls backward into the crowd and gets pushed back up on stage is slick.....except he does it while playing a solo!! And his trqdemark move of taking his guitar off and tossing it up high as he just walks away is still cool to see....and he always does it with his real guitar, not some cheap prop. Wonder if he ever broke one by accident? Thta is the Tele he's been playing a long time. He sure must trust whover is on the catchng end.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxVeUvo5COI&app=desktop

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The Bass Zone / Re: I think I need an 8 string
« on: April 25, 2016, 02:42:29 AM »
Quote from: mc2NY on March 13, 2016, 02:47:33 PM
Yeah, that is a good album.

Looking forward to see what the new one coming out will be like, after they get inducted into the RnR Hall of Fame. I'm tempted to go, since they are supposed to play live with Bun E. and it's a half hour from me.

Hey Granny......I just realized that I have a spare 8-string that might work for you sitting here. Mint and cheap. Drop me an email.

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The Bass Zone / Prince....playing a live bass solo
« on: April 25, 2016, 02:38:25 AM »
I've seen his virtuoso guitar and keyboard playing but this is the first I've seen his bass playing.

http://www.yourepeat.com/watch/?v=hQDFmmougCM


It just came out that Prince was awake for 154 hours before he died. Would love to hear what he was working on during that time.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Oh my, I'm in love with her - Dano Longhorn content
« on: April 22, 2016, 02:12:56 PM »
That was fun....like a live soundtrack to a Quentin Terantino movie.

...just missng lots of bullets and blood.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Handmade Thunderbird TYPE Bass
« on: April 22, 2016, 02:04:01 PM »

I think this one or another Ribeckke TBird was for sale last year. I recall the inscribed brqss plate.

Beautiful bass for Alembc fans....but it looks HEAVY!!! All that maple and brass...

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