Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[Dave W]

Wyman played it on a short scale bass with flats and a flatpick. Just goes to show it doesn't need to be played the same way to sound great.

I don't know about the strings, LaBella DTB flats in the Light used to have red silks at both ends but the last set I bought was more orange. The strings he's using sound like rounds to me, though. Hard to tell from a YT video.

[westen44]

I looked at another version of someone else playing a bass cover to "Paint It Black."  It was much closer to the way I used to play it, although it has been so long I really don't completely remember.  But I like that Thunderbird guy.  I just listened to him playing "The Thing That Should Not BE."  That makes me want to learn that or at the very least listen to early Metallica a little bit. 

[Pilgrim]

The Labella DTFs in Light Gauge I have bought for the last few years have had red silks at the tuner end, no silks at the ball end. Looks like the same color of red, though.

[ilan]

Odd LH technique. The tutor in me wants to stop him and say, let me show you a much easier way.

[Basvarken]

Lots of cool Thunderbirds and other cool basses in this video

[Ken]

Definitely, but I don't understand the point of the video.  Are they all his basses?

And what's with the inlays on the burst Bicentennial?

[Basvarken]

Yes, I do believe it is his personal collection (the vintage amps too).
I don't know the story on the bicentennial Thunderbird with the toaster pickups and the diagonal inlays.

[Dave W]

Yoichi Heesey Hirose on Facebook

Found a pic of him on the Japanese Metal Forum on FB with the description: Yoichi "Heesey" Hirose, bassist of The Yellow Monkey, Liv Moon, Murbas, and several other bands.

[slinkp]

Yes, I do believe it is his personal collection (the vintage amps too).
I don't know the story on the bicentennial Thunderbird with the toaster pickups and the diagonal inlays.

Those pickups look familiar but I can't think where I've seen them before... 

[Basvarken]

Steve Priest (RIP) with a Thunderbird

[Highlander]

The Heesey vid... possibly the most T'Birds in one video award...?
The majority of the band vids I scanned through he was mostly using them too... spotted the guitarist with (I think) an RD too... same vid had a quirky Gibson bass...?

[slinkp]

Those pickups look familiar but I can't think where I've seen them before... 

Aha. Lace alumitone

[Basvarken]

I don't think those are Lace Alumitones in Heesey's bass.

[Basvarken]

Hold on! Maybe they are! Look at the bass on the right of this pic I found on his Instagram account:

[Dave W]

Those must be Alumitones.