BassTractor

Listening to your music (I love it and consequently bought the album), I can't hear the relationships on first listening, so yeah, I'm quite open to the notion of this being a different band. Searching a tiny little bit, I did find a band called Lutz and they were described as playing Americana and something else I've already forgotten. Anyway, thanks for the music. BC has some great bands!

That's you? him? Congrats! I've seen worse music-maps:

IME Word of mouth indeed, if added to availability and dependability. In practical terms: someone with the contacts who likes to shove work your way coz that won't reflect badly on them again. I'm sure agencies would or could do great work, but my own experience doesn't stretch that far. Peers of mine would be very active in networking, but the eagerness was dripping from them, and I still got the work without being that good.

First of all: an immense Thank you to everyone! The response, though typically BC was far greater than expected, and gave a lot of purdy pics. I'm with @Unknown_User, coz this is fun! As to Andy's proposal: WOW! Methinks that is a close as we're gonna get, and maybe if these existed several decades ago, this is the one I was in fact looking for even though I remember and saw it as more "rectangular". Mind you, I've been doubting myself, as many different pics of Thunderbirds give many different impressions, and also they came in a plethora of variations - with for example different placements of the bridge (dunno how they do that - I'm no specialist in these models). The thing I remember from that bass, and from what I thought I saw on the telly is exactly this character of obviously stemming from a Thunderbird but with the angles that count being closer to 90 degrees than in an original Thunderbird. Andy's Rex does that exactly - to my eyes that is. Maybe you guys provably see it as much closer to a Thunderbird, Idunno. Yes indeed. I fully agree with you there, and I did try both before and after posting. Many of the programmes they show here in Norway can be seen online afterwards, but many can't. I've scanned what I can, but haven't found it. Should of course have made a note right away, but overestimating my memory is one of my weaknesses. If the programme was Norwegian, you wouldn't be able to see it outside Norway - hence my attempt to play it online and make a screenshot. Also, admittedly, my brain functions so unwell these days, that I might have seen an ad on my computer whilst watching tv - the bass being in the ad but my sick brain remembering it immediately as if the bass was on tv. Therefore I've trawled my papers in the hope of a possible ad appearing again. BTW, that would be Lord Bertie to you, but as you know I'm more of an Algy type. 😁 (Young uns: look it up! 🙂 ) Thanks, folks! Lord AlgyBertie

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Googling and googling, I found the same question on TalkBass, and there they didn't solve it. When I started this thread, I though it was a well-known bass and therefore easy, but now it seems to me this isn't easy at all. So I think it's not worth the energy, and that it's best to put this at rest. Thanks again, everyone! Bert (However, for those who love stuff like this and who are not gonna be stopped, let me try in different words: Basically, it's a Thunderbird shape. No Non Reverse, no other things that make it weirder or more regular. However, if you can see the Thunderbird as basically a bendy parallellogram, then this bass still is a bendy parallellogram but less pointy. As a result its body probably is wider, or seems wider. Neck has large inlays (though that may have been an artefact of the resolution). One-part bridge near end of body. It looked rectangular and chromey. Two single-coil pups, or pups that look like them. I saw no scratchplate, but it may have been there Headstock not seen.)

Love them, me, and have done so since the early 70s - a period when we could just walk into our local music shop and try and buy Renaissance instrument copies. What a wonderful time! Based on my experience with the viola da gamba, I'd say: "Do it! Do it!" 🙂

Thanks, guys! As to @EssentialTension's Stormbird and @Chiliwailer's Non Reverse T-bird, I'd seen those earlier and then thought to myself that if they had had the typical Thunderbird non-reversed reversed non-reversedreversedness, they could be rather close. The Cataldo too is close, but in my eye somewhat closer to a T-Bird again. In the mean time, I've been trying to find the tv-programme online for a screenshot. Will keep you updated. Thanks!

Thanks, folks! None of those I'm afraid. Think of it as a bass that you immediately think is a Thunderbird, and then, milliseconds later, you realise it's a copy that tried to be just different enough. It's slightly in the direction of a rectangle - with for example a lesser pronounced lower horn than a real Thunderbird. I think it existed in the seventies, but as my memory is lacking I cannot be sure. In case I think eighties is a fair guess. In the mean time, I've done some more googling, and the Schecter Sixx Bass comes very close, see below, without being exactly the one I saw on tv, which seems slightly closer to a rectangle again and which had pronounced inlays in the neck. Again, this is not important stuff. I'm just interested. Thanks again!

Today a bass (I think) was almost seen on tv that I remember from days long gone, and it was obviously like a Thunderbird, but made so as to discern it from it, making for a more modest, more rectangular-like shape. Anyone any idea what it could have been? It's not an important question, but I'm trying to build up my memory again.

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I was saddened reading this. Also, it's so unnecessary! In my book, you still look like Donny Osmond! 🙂 (That said, these days Donny Osmond sadly looks a lot worse than even Barry off EastEnders.) 😐

Methinks its about time you othah numbskull's started to respec my noledges. It's diving! Scooby diving! (OK then: AKA Scubaru)

I think you misunderstand. He meant diving. 😐

Yes. Just like me.

They were great musicians though, and IMHO had many very well made songs. Also, Jan Akkerman could improvise with relevance to the song in question - nearly as if the improvisation was composed.

Aye. I've been confronted with that trick several times as a seller, even without the need for a physical return. These blokes (always blokes) would inform me beforehand they wanted the invoice for the cheap item (paid with bank card) and didn't need the invoice for the expensive item minus the return of the cheap item (paid in cash). Whilst I'm not in favour of cheating one's better half, I feel like defending some of these guys a bit - in some cases: some better halves are just terrible, and one tends to try and survive and compromise etc for some time - - especially when one had kids. Been there, done that (not the cheating bit) when I needed musical instruments to simply get bread on the table at all.

I knoooow.... and it also reminds me of the story of my friends - classical musicians - who went to the sauna and talked about music together. Some bloke there started chatting with them: "You're musicians, aren't you? So am I." My friend asked about what he was, and who, upon which he replied: "I'm in Focus. I'm Jan Akkerman." My friend: "Never heard of." Jan Akkerman: "😒" 😁

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The new job was just depping with some guys I knew and some guys I didn't know. So far so good. One of the lads had brought his granddad, who seemed a nice enough and modest man when we were having a coffee before the rehearsal. To my surprise (and admittedly slight annoyance) granddad decided to follow us into the rehearsal room and get seated just behind where I was to play the piano. He didn't do anything wrong, mind, but I just didn't feel it was the done thing. OK, so the rehearsal proceeds and after some time I hear a sound from behind me. Looking half over my shoulder I see that granddad produces a little harmonica and starts blowing into it. My OMFG annoyance doesn't get to develop to its maximum before I recognise timbre as well as style: OMFG! I'm playing with Toots Thielemans!... 😂

Didn't see this one coming. Nice though:

They rolled it from Gdynia to Gdansk, saving a lot of man hours that way. Fact.

Was gonna say my 1988 Yamaha TX802 synth box and other similar items, but the thread taught me to think outside the module, so... My school days recorder and my ca. 1970 flute. Used the flute just a few days ago, so I think that counts.

So this deal will in fact pay for the remt...

You're lucky. I've done some more digging, and... her name is Gerald.