Gene Simmons G2 Thunderbird

[Basvarken]

Haha, that is a funny video. Who would have known old Chaim has a sense of humor!

[godofthunder]

Again, I like the looks. And I love set neck too.
Not too keen on the distorted sound though. It’s a bit too much for my taste. Can’t really judge the tone of the bass this way…
Maybe you could add a video with a less distorted sound?

  I didn't  buy the bass, I suppose I could do another video but I suspect there will be plenty of others demoing a cleaner sound.

[Ken]

Haha, that is a funny video. Who would have known old Chaim has a sense of humor!

Script writers I guess. 

[westen44]

Script writers I guess. 

They did a great job, too.  So did all the people in the video.  It was very well-done and amusing.  Plus, I really like ebony.

[uwe]

  Today is the official release date for Gene's Thunderbird, I can finally share my video review done for The House of Guitars.

Someone knows his Simmons chops quite well here! Scott, our Kiss Army Grunt.

[uwe]

The promo vid is gorgeous, just one glitch: Gene calls the bass the  "G Square" only at the beginning of the vid, but everyone (him included) refer to it as the "G Two" in the course of the clip.

That way G Square will never catch on.

They should have shown a pic of the other three Kiss members when he mentioned the "board of independent experts". 

[uwe]

  I didn't  buy the bass, I suppose I could do another video but I suspect there will be plenty of others demoing a cleaner sound.

I did not say a word about the not quite hifi'sh clean sound, I swear! 

Don't any of you guys dare knock Scott for having the most versatile bass sound second to only ...


Lemmy!   

[Alanko]

If the control placement is the same then the Gene bass has the shortest distance from saddle to bridge pickup. This makes sense as a pick player such as Gene would get a punchy scooped tone running a pair of pickups in parallel, relatively close to the bridge. Basically a Jazz Bass type of business.

[Ken]

No mention yet of a left-handed version, and Gibson customer support doesn't see anything coming in the near future.  They made the generous offer to send the off-center Thunderbird back to me and then when an option comes in, we can do the exchange.

[Ken]

It's interesting that in the press releases and from Gene himself there was also a red-bound version, and Vs, and left-handed.  I wonder when the rest is supposed to come out.

[godofthunder]

IDIOT-UWE'S EDIT: [/b]Oh, damn, apologies Scott, I accidentally was in "modify" rather than "quote" mode when I wanted to compliment you on your - undistorted - melodic bass solo,

https://youtube.com/shorts/27EmELJ0jfM?feature=share

so I erased all your other stuff ... Guilty as charged. Dumb, dumb, dumb, stupido! Unfortunately there is no function to recover your original text. I could goose step-kick myself.

What Scott had graciously written was after quoting my Lemmy spoof on him was that he could always add more/"switch up" (!  ) distortion and that he had been testing a new Ampeg Rocket Bass combo from the HOG, but wasn't over the moon with its distorted channel (I tend to agree - it sounds nasty, obscuring the natural beauty of Scott's playing).

I hope I haven't forgotten anything - it's not like I don't read your posts!

To me distortion/ovrdrive on a bass is like garlic with a meal - applied sparingly , it's tasty, but don't overdo it.

[ilan]

Ebony boards are significantly heavier than rosewood. I hope they made it a thin veneer and not a slab.

The Gibson vid is very well made.

[uwe]

Ha, I did it, Scott's original post reinstated in its full glory:

I can switch it up when needed but typically I like it dirty 😏  I was playing through one of the new Ampeg Rocket combos,  I wasn't all that impressed with the overdrive channel. 

And now for something completely different:

https://youtube.com/shorts/27EmELJ0jfM?feature=share
   

[godofthunder]

  Lets try this again.  Me displaying a somewhat more tasteful tone,  hopefully Uwe won't go all scorched earth on it this time. https://youtube.com/shorts/27EmELJ0jfM?feature=share

[godofthunder]

Ha, I did it, Scott's original post reinstated in its full glory:

I can switch it up when needed but typically I like it dirty 😏  I was playing through one of the new Ampeg Rocket combos,  I wasn't all that impressed with the overdrive channel. 

And now for something completely different:

https://youtube.com/shorts/27EmELJ0jfM?feature=share
   

  Well done Uwe! Sorry for the duplicate post, it appears we were typing at the same time.