Bash the new Gibson Bass!!!

[Barklessdog]

I have to say that I've never seen a new Thunderbird in a store anywhere around here and I always looks

Best Buys carry them

[Denis]

Best Buys carry them

Not around here, unfortunately.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Best Buys carry them

They'll have three or four of the same Epi-birds you can find in any GC and maybe one sunburst Gibson hanging on the very top row, 15 feet up and well out of reach.

[Chaser001]

I looked and didn't see any Gibsons for sale online on Best Buy.  I'm sure this must be limited to stores in various places that only sell them directly from a store and they aren't even listed online.  The Best Buy close to me rarely has anything I want and might as well not exist. 

[Barklessdog]

They'll have three or four of the same Epi-birds you can find in any GC and maybe one sunburst Gibson hanging on the very top row, 15 feet up and well out of reach.

Yeah thats the way our stores are. They are the stores with the separate mini guitar center - like store inside.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Brands/null/pcmcat234900050002.c?id=pcmcat234900050002

Funny, but they do not show up on the search as you said, but I know they have them there. I go there all the time.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

It could be a web non-compete that GC got Gibson to go with. Lord knows Gibson will do anything it can to keep from having to waste all that fine illegal wood they have on a bass.

[Dave W]

It could be a web non-compete that GC got Gibson to go with. Lord knows Gibson will do anything it can to keep from having to waste all that fine illegal wood they have on a bass.

Since they revamped their policy about online sales maybe 4-5 years ago, they've strictly limited it to a handful of stores. It's not just GC and related stores (MF, Music 123) but they're by far the biggest and they're not going to jeopardize that.

[sniper]

I'm surprised that no one made one here yet?

Just hung up from talking with Curt. He is working on a custom pup for a build like this that looks like what a Gibby P90 bass pup should look like.

I'll let you know how it works in the projects threads. All I can say at the moment is basically an early type Tele humbucker dual coil pup (if that makes sense) with a fat wire wind in a 4 hole dog ear cover. Maybe a bottom Alnico magnet instead of pole magnets (still undecided). Prolly at least August before anything gets made. Covers are on order.

[dadagoboi]

That one looks much better than Gibson's but the pup is in the wrong position and why it should look like a guitar pickup is beyond me...I thought we were BASS players.

[Droombolus]

Because it looks great ?  The Eastwood P90 PUPs sound awesome BTW .....

[the mojo hobo]

That one looks much better than Gibson's but the pup is in the wrong position and why it should look like a guitar pickup is beyond me...I thought we were BASS players.

Actually it's because we are Bass Guitar Players. I like the Les Paul guitar looking pickups on my money bass, and the Rick is good in that respect too. As for placement: different from the Mudbucker position, but that's not a bad thing.

[dadagoboi]

Because it looks great ?   The Eastwood P90 PUPs sound awesome BTW .....

Actually it's because we are Bass Guitar Players. I like the Les Paul guitar looking pickups on my money bass, and the Rick is good in that respect too. As for placement: different from the Mudbucker position, but that's not a bad thing.

Well said, mea culpa.

[Basvarken]

There's a LP JR DC for sale on the Ebay right now

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-Les-Paul-Jr-Double-Cutaway-Bass-EB11-/230643371421?pt=Guitar&hash=item35b36a8d9d

[nofi]

gibson prices on their newer stuff never ceases to amaze me. seems like they are exploiting their niche market.

[godofthunder]

 I picked one up for Uwe I'll get some pictures up soon.