neepheid

Oh aye, she's observant too - some may know that I recently took in a second Thunderbird (different model though) and she was like "don't you have one like that already?" I started to explain the differences, her eyes glazed over and that was the end of that conversation

No, I don't get this at all. Mrs. Neepheid supports my hobby. Occasionally she encourages me to buy a bass I like - genuine conversation: "Do you like it?" "Yes." "Then you should buy it." She's even bought me a bass before. The kind of nonsense highlighted by the OP makes me sad, because unfortunately for some other people it might be true

This Saturday, Nine Lives are playing at Grays Inn, in Mastrick, Aberdeen. Please come - it's never been a particularly well attended venue in our experience

Entirely depends upon the desired outcome - freedom from her clutches? A punch in the mouth? An STI?

@SimonH bought a Squier Jag H from me last week. Fantastic, no-nonsense transaction, good comms, prompt payment, you can't say fairer than that. Deal with confidence.

I can participate in this thread for the first time - I don't generally have more than one example of a type of bass at one time, but for now at least... I guess there was the time when I briefly had two Squier Jaguar Hs in the house, but the grey one went back to Thomann as it got damaged in transit and they didn't offer me enough of a discount for me to want to keep it.

Not at all - bought purely for looks, I'm not ashamed to admit it. But the Epiphone Probucker 760s are easier to make work in contexts other than rock music, according to my ears anyway - just a bit more open/even sounding. It's all in the EQ though. With enough knob twiddling you can make most basses bend to your will, which is why I don't really care what bass I play, as long as it makes me feel happy and distracts punters from my bag of spanners face...

This is just an initial take, in headphones, and it might be slightly unfair on the Classic Pro as I have not had a chance to change the strings yet (not doing that until I get chrome tuners). To my ears, the Classic Pro is darker sounding, much more prominent in the low mids, whereas the Vintage Pro has a somewhat fuller range of sound, a bit more top end and a more balanced (but still very aggressive) attack. The difference might close up a little when I fit fresh strings to the Classic Pro, so may revisit this question again. But it is broadly as I expected. The Gibson TB+ pickup, love it or hate it is a growly, mean sound, with that emphasis on the low mids, but retaining a full bottom end and a (possibly only perceived) lack of top end as a result. The Epiphone Probucker 760 is more balanced - it's hardly "hi-fi", but it's an honest-to-goodness passive humbucker which is a tad easier to work with as an all-rounder. It's all EQ-able of course - you can make the two sound like each other more or less by tweaking some EQ. I don't like one better than the other, I know both work great in a live setting (because I played them both last night) and that's all that chiefly concerns me - I don't tend to evaluate basses predicated upon how they sound on their own much, hence my lack of vocabulary for describing such things. But you asked, and that's the best I can tell you right now.

I know, I owned a gold one a while back. Sounded great but I moved mine on for the somewhat less frequent complaint that it was too light. Plus it doesn't look like a Thunderbird - and I'll be honest - my reasons for wanting to own Thunderbirds are at least 50% for the looks... Vanity, they name is neep.

Well, that was easy!

Both my T-birds are neck thru. I'm of the opinion that if it's not neck thru, it ain't a T-bird. That bolt on one they make just doesn't cut the mustard as far as I'm concerned.

Last night a new venue for Nine Lives - Maud Football Social Club. Maud is a small village with an old woman's name in rural NE Scotland. Incidentally, it's also where we rehearse, so in a way it was almost like a home gig for the band! Early one too - 8.30-11.30pm, which makes a nice change. So we rock up and are pleased to find a large, empty space for us to set up in, loads of power sockets - dream start. Not an extension reel in sight. We got set up, and got going. A few folk came through from the main bar into the function area and we had folk up dancing most of the time. I wouldn't call it super busy, but with a few folk up dancing in front of you it makes it all worthwhile. We did have some trouble getting a decent sound - the area is quite wide and whilst this did give us the ability to put the PA speakers quite far forward, it created a bit of a dead spot where people were dancing, which got complained about. Sorta solved it by angling one of the PA speakers in a bit to fire a bit more in their direction and that seemed to keep them happy, but we will have to think about counter measures for situations like this in the future - perhaps have a monitor wedge, not so much for our benefit, but for the dancers! Got some nice comments after, some folk came up to chat to us and said they had a good time, so happy days. Gear was a flock of Thunderbirds into the usual Markbass modular monstrosity. And another thing... I don't want to hear about "Thunderbird neck dive" as a default from any of you so-and-sos in the future. The way some people go on about it, I must own the only two well behaved T-birds on the planet FFS! Enough! Even the headstocks are still intact! I don't want to hear it!

Miserable fsckers!