Agent 00Soul

"We Built This City," or as my AV teacher called it when it hit number 1 in the US, "DJs and radio stations are great! We love them!" It's one of the mysteries of the universe how Jefferson Airplane, one of the best and most challenging bands of the 1960s devolved through the 70s to emerge as Starship, one of the worst and least challenging bands of the 80s.

Those are great basses for hard rock and overdrive pedals. Must be the pickups.

I would just call and ask. What's the worst that can happen?

I used the bass at an outdoor gig in Brooklyn, NY a few weeks after they were installed and they sounded great on stage. At least I or the sound techs didn't have any problems. The loose pickups weren't listed. Someone on this board suggested I ring them up and ask. As they weren't making lefty Profiles yet, the owner of Bass Centre was accommodating, although I had to be patient as the process was very slow. Apparently, someone here read that I did this, tried it themselves and was essentially ghosted. So no idea what's going on, but it can't hurt to call and ask, especially as you are a recent customer. Bon chance!

Lefty in action: Lots of other reviews on YouTube, including from Bruce himself

Jealous! Those pickups are perhaps my favourite P-bass ones ever. I liked them so much that I bought a loose pair from Bass Centre and installed them in my Frankenbass. I would have bought the whole bass like you did, but couldn't justify another instrument.

That's something I never thought would happen, at least in Paul's lifetime! So much for his theory that it was in an alpine schloss mounted on the wall of a safe room where some Bond-villain locks himself in with a snifter of cognac to look at it. It was very much the opposite.

Another good thing to remember is that the audiences are much more forgiving on jam nights or open mikes. They wouldn't be there otherwise.

As the owener of two semi solid guitars and one bass, I would be afraid to put any of them in a gig bag, even one of the heavy duty ones that Mono make. Too scared.

Thanks! That's great info.

This Frankenbass began life as a 1993 Fender Custom Shop Jazz. What a lemon! By 2005, the neck needed replacing - the truss rod couldn't get more maxxed out - and one by one the elctronics went: individual pots and then a pickup I think. Talk about a Friday afternoon guitar! The neck replacement is a Warmoth that we put a Fender sticker on. Since the original electronics were shot too, it was turned into a P/J configuration, which I always wanted, with some re-routing and having a new pickguard made. We also replaced one of the volume controls wth a pickup selector. I believe the new pickups were Duncan vintage models. Years later the P-pickup was replaced with a Bruce Thomas model from Bass Centre. I think only the body and hardware are left from the original bass. Skilled techs did all the work. I'm hopeless at DIY.

Has anyone here tried either of the Electro-Harmonix organ simulation pedals with a bass? I'm speaking of the Organ Machines B9 and C9.

It's an Alembic price, but it did play Live Aid with The Style Council. https://thebassgallery.com/products/goodfellow-bass

Black Precisions with black guards and maple fretboards: the official bass of the British New Wave!

In the studio they can be more versatile than you think. Did you know that the low-end of Air's classic Moon Safari was recorded entirely with a Hofner bass? In my own dreampop/trip-hop work I would play one directly into Twin Reverb amp simulation software. The sound was really edgy.

A Czech company called Bach made some reasonably priced non reverse T-birds a while back. I thought their pick ups were closer to the original sound than Gibson's current ones. Not sure if they are still being made though.

At this point all my basses are strung with flats: Fender Jaguar Bass - Sadowsky flats - my favourite flats - I hope they last because they don't make them any more and I only have 1 new set left Frankenbass - made from deceased Fender CS, Warmoth, Seymour Duncan, and Bass Centre bits - Rotosound Tru-Bass black nylons Epiphone Jack Casady semi-hollow - Pyramid flats Epiphone Viola fully hollow - also Pyramid Bach Non-Reverse Thunderbird - Rotosound Jazz Bass - this was my bass for rounds as it's good for distorted hard rock, but in the end I caved and put on the Jazz which has a similar twang that's just as good but feels like what I'm used to and prefer

Sounds great!