Jean-Luc Pickguard

Rubber Biscuit — Blues Brothers

I thought I'd recorded the best bass tone ever on a track over the weekend using my non-reverse thunderbird with cobalt flats plugged straight into my focusrite interface and using a bass amp model and compressor built-into logic. It sounds awesome in the track — but when I solo the bass track it sounds all clanky and weird on its own.

Let Me Bathe In Demonic Light — The Mountain Goats

On The Good Ship Lollipop — Tiny Tim

Send Me A Postcard — Shocking Blue

Beans — Bo Carter

The First Cut is The Deepest — P.P. Arnold

Big Time Operator — Zoot Money's Big Roll Band

They would probably be more preoccupied with their own playing and wouldn't care enough about yours to make any kind of judgement either way.

First Shot Mist Him — Mississippi John Hurt

You mentioned you looked at short scales, how about a JMJ mustang? They're great little basses that get a lot of praise — I like 'em so much I own three of them and out of all my basses they're the only ones that get taken to rehearsals & gigs.

Hazey Jane — Nick Drake

Since You've Bin Gone — Rainbow

Down The Dustpipe — Status Quo

Innocence Decayed — The Residents

Can't Stand The Pain — The Pretty Things

Bankrobber — The Clash

Gibson really do seem to offer basses as a bit of an afterthought. They did a short scale thunderbird about a dozen years ago but only made 400 — all in black. If I had a spare £800 back then I'd have snapped one up. Surely there's a market for a run of short scale gibson basses now that aren't SGs.

The UK Gibson demo shop on reverb has one listed for £1,274.15 https://reverb.com/uk/item/70514505-gibson-non-reverse-thunderbird-faded-pelham-blue-demo

I just went looking for an image of the bass to use in the track header in logic (I do this for all of my guitars/basses/ukes) and found a source image at gear4music on this page: https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/DISC-Gibson-Non-Reverse-Thunderbird-Faded-Pelham-Blue/40R7 If I am reading it right it looks like the bass might now be discontinued.

I don't have anything handy to weigh it on at the moment, but it's lighter than it looks.

The pickups are available as a spare part: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PUTBRCC2--gibson-accessories-thunderbird-bass-reissue-pickup-chrome I wouldn’t put one in any of my mustangs though.

Doin' It (Far) Right — Daft Punk

Build Me Up Buttock Up — The Foundations

Fry Me A Liver — Julie London