Epiphone T-bird basses are dirt cheap and just fine. Fuck Gibson and Gene.

Yeah I still dunno.

- It costs $500 more than a regular ass Thunderbird
- It has a glued in neck instead of neck-through, which it sort of whatever but if you're paying the bucks, might as well get the real thing
- It costs $2000 more than the Epiphone version, which 1) looks WAAAYYY better and 2) also has neck-through construction
- If it serves as a bellwether, the Nikki Sixx Blackbird from ~2000 which is infinitely more dumb sells for like $2K nowadays, not what i'd call peanuts
- I like Kiss, i just wish they would have stopped in ~1978

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:59 pm Epiphone T-bird basses are dirt cheap and just fine. Fuck Gibson and Gene.

I've never heard one sound like anything but mudbutt? Gotta be those pickups

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:22 am

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:59 pm Epiphone T-bird basses are dirt cheap and just fine. Fuck Gibson and Gene.

I've never heard one sound like anything but mudbutt?

Honestly, I'd say this about all Gibson basses. A couple folks have made Rippers and RDs sound good IMO, but that's about it.

tallchris wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:26 am
Honestly, I'd say this about all Gibson basses. A couple folks have made Rippers and RDs sound good IMO, but that's about it.

I have a G3 I really like for both playability & sound and always liked the Grabber too but obv super similar to a Ripper. Had a friend w/ an LP bass from the 90s that he made sound surprisingly great.

But yeah those are not the usual suspects for what people think of as the Gibson bass...it's Thunderbirds and maybe EB-0s to a lesser extent? And while I think the Thunderbird is probably the raddedst-looking body-style...mudbuckers are the sound I associate w/ them.

This thing looks pretty badass, especially when you consider it can do vibrato, octave, and harmonizing. Hell, it even does chorus.

psssh pickups schmickups. you can change those.

Also let me take the time to invoke Matt Lukin and one of my favorite videos ever to remind us all that Thunderbirds are fundamentally cool.



Minute 2:40 is where that shit really starts to shine.

tommy wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:56 am This thing looks pretty badass, especially when you consider it can do vibrato, octave, and harmonizing. Hell, it even does chorus.

might be the only pitchbend pedal I've ever been remotely interested in.

How does Gene feel about it

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