Rex Brown Tbird?

[ilan]

I can't fault his playing. The speed and technique he achieved on The Romantic Warrior is very impressive. It's the plastic-y ultra treble and low action scuzz that I don't really like in his tone.

It's an upright with a typical 70s piezo tone.

[uwe]

I've heard about that EB-2 again and again, but never seen a pic.

[gearHed289]

I'm pretty sure it was an EB-2 or 2D.

[ilan]

I'm pretty sure it was an EB-2 or 2D.

When Steve Swallow switched from upright to BG he also went with an EB2D. He said in an old interview that he felt weird with a solid body bass.

[amptech]

When Steve Swallow switched from upright to BG he also went with an EB2D. He said in an old interview that he felt weird with a solid body bass.

He got a nice sound out of it too. Didn't he put a mudbucker in bridge position?

[ilan]

He got a nice sound out of it too. Didn't he put a mudbucker in bridge position?

He had two. A stock Sparkling Burgundy and a sunburst that he had modded.

"The instrument was completely un-modified. It was the first electric instrument I ever picked up, at the precursor to the NAMM show, in Chicago in 1969.  [...] At some point – I’m not sure of the year but it was after I’d played with Eberhard Weber – I bought another EB2, this one in sunburst finish, and gave it to Peter Coura, the luthier who made Eberhard’s classic hybrid instrument, who put his pickups and electronics into it. I’ve still got my original red EB2, but I sold the second one for a song a few years ago."



Solo and close-ups starting at 3:05.

[4stringer77]

They're like the Polyphia of the sixties but cooler, especially because of the fringed leather. 
Wonder how  Steve managed to dial in the tone he's getting and what happened to the pole pieces on the neck pickup?

[Ken]

So someone in the TalkBass Thunderbird group got a Rex Brown Thunderbird and repotted the pickups into gold covers.  They seem to be the same as the 2015 DeCola pickups under the covers.

[uwe]

Good pups then! That DeCola TBird sounded great. More refined, but still TBirdish enough.