Please remind me: bass between a rectangle and a Thunderbird

[BassTractor]

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.

[hooky_lowdown]

DeArmond Jetstar?

[wingnutkj]

Gibson RD?

[Teebs]

Vox SomethingOrOther™

 

[wingnutkj]

Or maybe something I can't quite get a clear picture of - I'm imagining something black and compact, maybe made by one of the 80's shred-guitar companies?

Unless you mean a Steinberg headless, but that's not particularly Thunderbird-y.

[nige1968]

Explorer?

[LeftyJ]

Gretsch Billy Bo bass? Based on the (fairly recent) Billy Gibbons / Bo Diddley signature guitar version. 

 

[AndyTravis]

1 hour ago, hooky_lowdown said:

DeArmond Jetstar?

Love these - have aged well...

[Delberthot]

Do Diddley bass? none more rectangular

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2019 by Delberthot

[BassTractor]

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!

[Bassassin]

Washburn B20 Stage?

My first good-quality bass was one of these. Should have kept it!

[Chiliwailer]

Someone mentioned non-reverse Thunderbird earlier...

 

[EssentialTension]

Gould Stormbird?

 

 

... or Eastwood Stormbird?

 

[EssentialTension]

Cataldo JAEbird?

 

[BassTractor]

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! 

[Chiliwailer]

Wtf is it?! 😂

[BassTractor]

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.)
 

[BigRedX]

Fenton Weill?

[Bobthedog]

Dingwall D Roc?

 

https://images.app.goo.gl/Xw6UB1aFnRGiWvcH9

[AndyTravis]

Esp stream

Esp Phoenix

Schecter Ultra Bass

Spector USA Rex bass

[James Nada]

Gibson Krist Novoselic Signature RD?

[AndyTravis]

7 minutes ago, James Nada said:

Gibson Krist Novoselic Signature RD?

Was just about to post...”Gibson RD?”

[NancyJohnson]

Rather than everyone posting photos, Bertie old boy, can you remember what you were watching? Channel etc.

[Teebs]

1 minute ago, NancyJohnson said:

Rather than everyone posting photos, Bertie old boy, can you remember what you were watching? Channel etc.

*starts new thread: Please remind me: Tv program featuring a bass between a rectangle and a Thunderbird*

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[Unknown_User]

8 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

Rather than everyone posting photos, Bertie old boy, can you remember what you were watching? Channel etc.

Disagree.  I'm enjoying browsing all these photos!  Some lovely basses on show.