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[lowend1]

Hopefully Chris can stop by Mike's booth and meet Tom Petersson, with his sig Thunderbird.
Tom's page on Mike's site.
http://www.mikelull.com/Instruments/TPT4.htm

Beauty of a bass.
Did Tom rifle through Abe Lincoln's closet or something?

[godofthunder]

 I like the pickup placement !

[TBird1958]

Cheap Trick is doing that whole Sgt. Peppers/Beatles thing in Las Vegas, the placement of the pups on the bass give a slightly out of phase, wooly tone. Tom's apparrel..........I think he's trying the '60s thing (maybe 1860s)   

[Dave W]

Tell him not to book any gigs at Ford's Theatre.

[jumbodbassman]

Cheap Trick is doing that whole Sgt. Peppers/Beatles thing in Las Vegas, the placement of the pups on the bass give a slightly out of phase, wooly tone.

that i would love to hear.  I moved one of my pups up but his are at the extreme and his are lulls.....

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Checked out the hotel lobby shows last night--caught a bit of Orianthi, Chad Smith's Meatbats, Wally Reyes Jr. & Friends, an American Indian cat known as Mickey Free, & Hot For Teacher.

All were pretty mediocre but Mickey Free would be good if he'd just Shut Up & Play!

He did a good job of playing some Hendrix songs & he's got some gorgeous axes--a black Flying V hand painted Hendrix Tribute just like Jimi's, a '58 Les Paul Tigerstriped Sunburst, a Billy Bo, etc.

He wore enuf turquoise to sink a canoe! hahaaa

He must have asked "Are you with me?" 27 times. The first few times I said "YEAH!" but after 2 dozen times I was shakin' my head NO. lol

Saw a few familiar faces--but not Chris P.

The couple who run a music store in Fla. & usually get me in ain't here again this year.
That makes 2 years in a row their biz has been slow!! Tough times

[Chris P.]

I missed you too and I missed Peterson's booth...

[TBird1958]

You must of been on a short leash Shatzi, if the magazine had given you anytime to visit around the West Coast you'd be applying for citizenship 

[uwe]

Mark never seems to doubt the power of conversion!

[TBird1958]

 

Really as they say "There's no place like this place"
I love Seattle and Washington State very much - and think once you see it you'll want to stay. Admittedly a very biased opinion.    I think our Leibe Chris would like it here, cosmoploitan yet the wilderness is quite near, very different from Holland.

[OldManC]

That looks interesting...

[TBird1958]

One of Mike's fivers.
I recall speaking with him about the pickup for that, there's about 10k worth of R&D there! A good portion went to the guys (same folks in CA. that Gibson used) to develope a new die to stamp the covers. 

[dadagoboi]

One of Mike's fivers.
I recall speaking with him about the pickup for that, there's about 10k worth of R&D there! A good portion went to the guys (same folks in CA. that Gibson used) to develope a new die to stamp the covers. 

When your R&D is only twice the price (or less) of your product you're doing really well in my experience.

[TBird1958]

 Tom at Mike's NAMM booth


And with Jack Blades

[Rob]

Tell him not to book any gigs at Ford's Theatre.

Well that launched a Pepsi!