B.C. Rich Thunderbird

[TBird1958]

This showed up in the "club" thread on TB, it's interesting - tho a bit too pricey for me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BC-Rich-T-Bird-Bass-Guitar-/331000735390?pt=Guitar&hash=item4d112e669e

[Nocturnal]

The first time I ever saw this bass on Ebay I think it sold for about $700. But that was a long time ago. I've always liked this bass but yeah, it's too rich for me. It sold a few months back for less than he is asking now.

EDIT: It sold for $2076 in late May.

[FrankieTbird]

I think that "could have been" a nice bass, but it just doesn't do it for me.  The mismatched wood & the 7ender pickups pretty much blow it.  The gold hardware I could live with, but only because I think it goes well with a green finish.  Is it even an authentic BCRich?  The not flush mounted cavity cover looks very cheesy.  I think $700 would be about right.

[Dave W]

It's a nice looker, all right, until you get to the J pickups. They look great on a Jazz Bass, completely out of place on a T-bird.

[uwe]

Truer words have never been spoken.

[Highlander]

If you doubled them up as a twin coil...?

[gearHed289]

It's a nice looker, all right, until you get to the J pickups. They look great on a Jazz Bass, completely out of place on a T-bird.

Nothing a router can't fix. 

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Nothing a router can't fix. 

I'd like to see/hear that bass with a TB neck pickup and BC Rich's reversed/normal P pickups in middle and bridge positions.

[Dave W]

If you doubled them up as a twin coil...?

You could wire them in series even though they're separated, but that wouldn't change the fact that they look weird on a Thunderbird body.

[Highlander]

I wonder what sort of sound you could get if you fitted Ricky pups to a Thunderbird, or vice-versa... it's a through-neck thought...

[gweimer]

I wonder what sort of sound you could get if you fitted Ricky pups to a Thunderbird, or vice-versa... it's a through-neck thought...

Before I sold everything off, I was planning to build a bass with a Dark Star in the neck position and a Ric in the bridge slot.  Too bad I'll never find out.

[Highlander]

Don't right yourself off yet, Gary...

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I wonder what sort of sound you could get if you fitted Ricky pups to a Thunderbird, or vice-versa... it's a through-neck thought...

Cliff Burton's famous Rick had a mudbucker. I don't know for a fact, but I'm pretty sure that's instrument on "Anesthesia(Pulling Teeth)" with a wah.

Here's an early clip with the bass before he installed the mudbucker:



...but it sounds like the album version brings the mud:

[mc2NY]

Anyone here get this BC Rich?

I thought I had it...got a lower price from the seller and typed it into the offer and he ended the auction.....but apparently I made a typo on the price and it looked lower than he told me....then he almost simultaneously got a 150 higher offer. When I asked for his PayPal address, he said he jus sold it to someone else. I only realized my typo after he told me about it. Did it on my iPad half asleep...must be going blind.

Wasn't wild about the Jazz pups but green IS my color.

[godofthunder]

 Of course! Cliff, Mel, Billy, Lemmy etc. Lemmy and I talked at length about Thunderbirds in '86. He slagged them off "those muddy things ?"  He did at one point put a Thunderbird pickup in the neck position of one of his Rics.