Thunderbird shootout.

[Alanko]

I would be surprised if this hasn't been seen before, but this fella Heesey plays a bunch of tasty T-birds, and copies, through a SVT stack.

Part 1.



Part 2. (Non-reverse).

[Highlander]

New to me but there's an existing thread for anything video that's T'Bird flavoured...

[Lightyear]

Ah, but yes to stick with LBO tradition here's the derail!: 

Female, Japanese slap bass on V no less - she's rather entertaining    Like a Japanese Bootsy but much cuter

God help me but I like some of this    I've spent twenty minutes watching a bunch of these videos - m u s t stop...

Harry, any idea of who they, she, is?

[Highlander]

Ah, Buzz... To Japan...! and Beyond...!

[Alanko]

An interesting diversion. 

I went through all three of Heesey's videos. I guess he is one of these guys that comes alive in a band setting, as he fumbles through a bunch of grooveless riffs. He also seems to always have both pickups on?

[Basvarken]

He has a bunch of Kaminari Non Reverse Thunderbirds.
I've never heard of that brand. Looks like an Asian (Japanese?) version of the BaCHbird. Except for the headstock that looks like it is more Fender style non-angled.

[Basvarken]

Yep, Japanese.
http://kaminari-guitars.com/?p=1010

[Alanko]

The hardware looks a cut above the BaCH stuff, and the pin striping is a nice touch.

[Basvarken]

Body ?Mahogany
Neck?Maple
Fretboard?Indian Rosewood
Scale?864mm (432mm)
Neck Joint ? Set-Neck
Pickup ?Lollar Thunderbird Bass Pickups
Machine Heads?Gotoh GB30
Bridge?Hipshot D Style 2Pieace Bridge System
Color?Dove Blue / White / Black / Custom color


The Lollar pickups are certainly better than the Artecs.
Gotoh tuners are excellent
The Hipshot is an ... errmm... acquired taste!
I think I could do without the pin striping 

[Aussie Mark]

No Greco?  Fail.

[Lightyear]

An interesting diversion. 

I went through all three of Heesey's videos. I guess he is one of these guys that comes alive in a band setting, as he fumbles through a bunch of grooveless riffs. He also seems to always have both pickups on?

He may be fine in a band setting but Koga has a much better groove and her bass spins

[Psycho Bass Guy]

An interesting diversion. 

I went through all three of Heesey's videos. I guess he is one of these guys that comes alive in a band setting, as he fumbles through a bunch of grooveless riffs. He also seems to always have both pickups on?

I only watched the first two, but for what these are, demos of differences in T-Birds, what he does is perfect and is very much a reflection of how a real bass player would put one through its paces. He's not trying to impress with his playing. It's all about the bass. The chick in the other video might as well be a drum machine: her "playing" is a multitracked and tempo-mapped layered affair and boring after about 30 seconds, when it's obvious she's only miming her "playing" and several notes are audible that could not possibly have been played by the "video hands." There are all kinds of these slap videos on YouTube where folks layer multiple bass lines in order to make their playing seem better than it is. I'll take Heesey's Geezer and Glover-inspired fretboard antics over that chick's glossy showtune ANY day. Les Claypool is one of the VERY few players who can make that stuff work in a song and I've seen him do it live. It's cool to know that bass is being showcased, but the vids are not as they are made to appear.

[Basvarken]

+1!

[Alanko]

Ya, have to agree as well, but then again I don't enjoy slapping that much. No idea why Youtube bassists always have to slap. There is one guy (might be the Bluesman Vintage dude actually) that pulls out all these old '70s Ricks and then slaps away on them so that the sound from the bass is louder than the amplified tone.

[the mojo hobo]

The hardware looks a cut above the BaCH stuff, and the pin striping is a nice touch.

It should be, it is priced a lot higher. About double what the Gibson NR sold for.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kaminari-Guitars-YARDBIRD-YB-1-White-/261397665868?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdc83d84c