If I had a spare couple of grand....(Mike Lull content)

[umcoo]

I was perusing the Bass Direct website today and this beauty caught my eye. Just a perfect looking bass. The finish and the chrome pickups is stunning...need to start saving!

http://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Lull_JT4.html

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/goat_punisher/JT4Front_zpsf82375f7.jpg[/IMG]

[uncle psychosis]

Wow. Just wow. Want.

[Dingus]

Looks like a fantastic bass but I would choose a different colour myself .

[uncle psychosis]

Its not a *million* miles away from this other beauty:

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/192862-fs-fender-roscoe-beck-v-green-teal-metallic-2003-great-condition-new-price/

[Dingus]

It'll sound very different though . The Lull has got his rewind of classic 1960s Gison Thunderbird pickups on , same as the ones on his TBird style basses . Presumably he has put them on this bass to give a taste of that sound to players who prefer a Fender - style body shape .

[uncle psychosis]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1358810424' post='1945621']
It'll sound very different though .
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True, I'll need to buy both

[BigRedX]

It's a bit of a cop-out though isn't it?

For people too vanilla to buy a Thunderbird-shaped T-Bass.

[charic]

I think it needs an ebony board instead of rosewood tbh, for me the red in the rosewood doesn't really go with that awesome blue finish all that well

[chris_b]

It's the last "new" format for a Fender bass. The only one that Fender haven't tried themselves!

It will sound amazing if Lull's Pbasses are anything to go by.

[Dingus]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358844266' post='1945795']
It's a bit of a cop-out though isn't it?

For people too vanilla to buy a Thunderbird-shaped T-Bass.
[/quote]

It wont sound quite the same either due to using ash and maple rather than mahogany . I suppose the thing is that the TBird body shape can feel very awkward and alien to Fender -style players ( indeed most players ) so these basses make sense in light of that .

[uncle psychosis]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358844266' post='1945795']
It's a bit of a cop-out though isn't it?

For people too vanilla to buy a Thunderbird-shaped T-Bass.
[/quote]

I'd happily have both

[Dingus]

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1358861025' post='1946128']
I'd happily have both
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I'd have a TBird style Lull too , except I think there's a rule that you have to be under thirty years old to play a bass like that .

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1358864994' post='1946231']
I'd have a TBird style Lull too , except I think there's a rule that you have to be under thirty years old to play a bass like that .
[/quote]

With respect... Bollocks!

[xilddx]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358866547' post='1946255']
With respect... Bollocks!
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Seconded!

[Dingus]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358866547' post='1946255']
With respect... Bollocks!
[/quote]

No offense taken , but I am a firm believer in growing old gracefully , and to my sensibilities older men trying a bit too hard to look rock and roll with angular "attitude " guitars is a bit like Jeremy Clarkson wearing jeans . Don't get me wrong - you can only please one person so please yourself , by all means - but I would feel a little less comfortable with myself than I do holding a Fender or similar . To me rock and roll will always be a young mans' game .

[Dingus]

That said , I'd still have a Mike Lull T Bird and play it at home where no one could see me . I've been having a look at them and they are beautiful .

[Muzz]

By that reasoning, Jazz bass body = old bloke bass... I can understand that...

On the topic of the pickups, here's my Fenderbird, with Dingwall pickups, cunningly lurking beneath these great covers:

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/MTM133/photo_zpsebe2a12f.jpg

[Dingus]

[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1358868384' post='1946292']
By that reasoning, Jazz bass body = old bloke bass... I can understand that...

On the topic of the pickups, here's my Fenderbird, with Dingwall pickups, cunningly lurking beneath these great covers:

[url="http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b585/MTM133/photo_zpsebe2a12f.jpg"]http://i1293.photobu...zpsebe2a12f.jpg[/url]
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More importantly , my body = old bloke ! ( That's the way it feels some days now , anyway ) .

Nice looking bass , by the way .

Edited January 22, 2013 by Dingus

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1358867178' post='1946266']
No offense taken , but I am a firm believer in growing old gracefully , and to my sensibilities older men trying a bit too hard to look rock and roll with angular "attitude " guitars is a bit like Jeremy Clarkson wearing jeans . Don't get me wrong - you can only please one person so please yourself , by all means - but I would feel a little less comfortable with myself than I do holding a Fender or similar . To me rock and roll will always be a young mans' game .
[/quote]

And have no intension of growing old gracefully. IME unfortunately some people are already middle-aged before they've reached their 30th birthday. Me, I expect to wake up one morning in about 20 years time to find that I've made the transition from rebellious youth to grumpy old man overnight. Until then I'm going to keep rocking like a bastard.

As Earl Brutus said: "Pop music is wasted on the young".

[discreet]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358871494' post='1946338']
..."Pop music is wasted on the young".[/quote]

It certainly is. What the f*ck do [i]they [/i]know about anything..?? [size=4] [/size]

Edited January 22, 2013 by discreet

[GazWills]

Jeff Ament will be 50 in march and still looks very cool with his lull Sig t-bird bass... 50 is the new 30

[discreet]

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1358873126' post='1946371']
... 50 is the new 30...[size=4][/quote][/size]
[size=4]Is it? Balls - I was hoping it was the new 20.[/size]

Edited January 22, 2013 by discreet

[Dingus]

I wish I'd never said anything now ! I has no idea people were so touchy about their age ! I should have known better .

[Dingus]

[quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1358873126' post='1946371']
Jeff Ament will be 50 in march and still looks very cool with his lull Sig t-bird bass... 50 is the new 30
[/quote]

He's a rock star though . Different rules apply . It's when people [i]wish [/i]they were a rock star ( or even worse , believe they are ) that things get a bit uncomfortable . Rock music is middle aged music nowadays anyway . Kids are far more intrested in DJs , video games and playing with their phones than they are in rock music .

[Dingus]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358871494' post='1946338']
And have no intension of growing old gracefully. IME unfortunately some people are already middle-aged before they've reached their 30th birthday. Me, I expect to wake up one morning in about 20 years time to find that I've made the transition from rebellious youth to grumpy old man overnight. Until then I'm going to keep rocking like a bastard.

As Earl Brutus said: "Pop music is wasted on the young".
[/quote]

Earl Brutus - what a great act they were . So sad that Nick Sanderson is no longer with us .

I'm presuming you don't want to borrow any of my Joni Mitchell albums .