Please remind me: bass between a rectangle and a Thunderbird

[NancyJohnson]

59 minutes ago, Unknown_User said:

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

Thing is, most of us have seen said photos many times before...

[BassTractor]

On 28/07/2019 at 10:56, AndyTravis said:

Spector USA Rex bass

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.

 

9 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

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

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

 

[Teebs]

3 minutes ago, BassTractor said:

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

 

[alyctes]

Anglebird seems a good name for it

[AndyTravis]

Who was the bass player? Not defeated yet and won’t rest until I know what it was you saw

[Billy Apple]

Fret King Esprit? 

 

[BigRedX]

Are you sure it's not a Fenton Weill?

[AndyTravis]

46 minutes ago, Billy Apple said:

Fret King Esprit? 

 

Nice that...

[Unknown_User]

16 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

Thing is, most of us have seen said photos many times before...

Some of us haven't though, so it's a good way for the likes of me to be exposed to new and interesting stuff.

Lower the drawbridge, Nancy, and let us in!

[Grahambythesea]

On 28/07/2019 at 09:34, BigRedX said:

Fenton Weill?

 

[visog]

It was an regular Gibson Thunderbird wasn't it? Admit it...

P.S. No-one's suggested an Ibanez Iceman yet?

[AndyTravis]

After all this talk...I’ve just done this...

[Grahambythesea]

Overwater?

 

[BassTractor]

Thanks again, folks. As i said, @AndyTravis's July 28th proposal of a Spector USA Rex bass is as close as I think we're gonna get. It's so close that it could very well be the exact thing I was trying to find.

best,
bert