Pino modded his P-Bird

Chris P. · July 02, 2015, 04:59:42 PM

I think I posted first about it after The Who played the Super Bowl. Pino had a (Fiesta?) red Precision with two nickel Thunderbird pickups. I did some research and the bass turned out to be made by the Fender Custom Shop, but not officially. The Fender CS of course doesn't use Gibson pickups.

Today I saw The Who live. I just arrived home and it was GREAT! Pino now has a chrome mudbucker at the neck of this very bass.

Chris P. · July 02, 2015, 05:23:22 PM

I just heard the mudbucker was installed by The Bass Gallery in London.

amptech · July 03, 2015, 01:37:09 AM

I just started prepping my '74 P for this mod - Rick Laird style!

Dave W · July 03, 2015, 08:35:57 AM

I wonder what the folks at Fender Custom Shop think of his latest mod.

Droombolus · July 03, 2015, 10:45:27 AM

What the heck is next ?

Highlander · July 03, 2015, 05:34:39 PM

Peter Cook, in the form of Carlo, steps in...

copacetic · July 09, 2015, 04:36:26 PM

A mudbucker at the base of the neck on a Precision....hmmm. He always gets good tone from what I have seen and heard over the years. There must be rhyme to his reason. I wonder if it is a TB+with the mudbucker casing?... I did see a recent video of him playing his old Fiesta Precision with just the lowly Precision pups.( The Unidentified Flying Project)

slinkp · July 09, 2015, 08:05:01 PM

Mudbucker neck pup on a P-bass? ... sounds familiar ...

leftybass · July 10, 2015, 08:50:31 AM

That's how the bass was when I saw them here a few months back.

hieronymous · July 12, 2015, 05:31:23 PM

I grabbed this shot from their performance at the New Orleans Jazz Festival 2015 (cameraman never showed a good closeup of the knobs/output jack section)

BTL · July 28, 2015, 09:00:02 PM

That's really cool.

I'm intrigued by the pickup spacing.

I think I'd have to move them all just a bit just to be happy with the cosmetics.

Chris P. · July 30, 2015, 02:53:31 AM

I think the Tbird pickups have the Tbird spacing. They are in that bass for years. What I don't like is the chrome versus nickel.

takeout · August 04, 2015, 02:21:01 PM

Curious to know what they are (the 'Birds AND the MB).

BTL · August 04, 2015, 06:15:58 PM

Apparently Lollar offers a true chromed cover as well as traditional nickel.

I just finished up building a bass inspired by Pino's Fiesta Red P...I call it the P'Nobird.

Clever, huh?

Chris P. · August 05, 2015, 01:35:38 PM

Great name!!!!No Bird, P, Pino, a bit of Nocaster in it... Great find!