Bachbird makeover almost ready to come home

[Dave W]

I had two basses when I was playing for a living.  It took a while to get two, but I finally had them -  a '64 Precision with a perfect neck, and a '63 Epiphone Embassy.  I had to sell one at one point when the kids were little.  Take a guess which one went, and which one stayed.   

Let your Epi freak flag fly! 

[Bionic-Joe]

I did play a 1964 Embassy as well today...Just didn't do it for me. Still a cool bass...Everyone's got their thing.

[gweimer]

When I first went looking, I had a Thunderbird in mind.  Back then, a good used one would cost you $1000.  The Embassy was $650.  There were 4 of them on the wall that day.  Only one jumped out at my ears.  It was one of Tom Petersson's old basses.  Mark (fur85) will attest to how this bass sounds, since he had about 8 years with it.  I have always suspected that Petersson had the pickups rewound.  I came across a couple old band recordings.  I may have to post them in our Dropbox for you.

[Bionic-Joe]

No problem. Would love to hear it!

[weekend warrior]

I had an Embassy too for a short while. It was a fantastic bass and really got me turned onto the Gibson vibe.It was a later one so the pickups were stupid hot.Like my 68 NR

[gweimer]

No problem. Would love to hear it!

I put one song up on our Dropbox site.  This is a really old cassette recording.  I think it was done straight to my old boom box from the sound board.  No direct feed, just room sound into cheap built-in mics.  The funny thing is, I hadn't heard this in so long, I wasn't sure what it was.  And, I think I'm the one singing.  Talk about memory loss!

[Bionic-Joe]

How do I find it??

[gweimer]

How do I find it??

Do you have the invite from Dropbox?  The song is "Rock Me Baby" from my band, Thief.

[Bionic-Joe]

Got it!! Thanks! I'll check it out!!!

[weekend warrior]

Waiting on the fedex truck............