Lemmy

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 25 Jul 2013, at 23:36 , martyn white <martyn_white_2003 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> 
> I unearthed this great chat with Lemmy.  Its worth a read!
> http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue14/mothead1.html

Of course it's good: Scott did it, and threw in my question about pickups -- clearly the most critical issue being discussed ... ;)

Obviously Gibson _does_ make pickups for the current Thunderbird basses, but they're different than the ones in the early '70s. However you can, if so inclined, find people who custom make reproductions of the '70s Tbird pups.  However, Lemmy is also perfectly right that Rickenbacker make quite good stock pickups these days.  I recently put Rickenbacker HB1 pickups in my '70s 4001, and they're a big improvement over the old Seymour Duncan humbucker that had been in there previously.  Lemmy's current custom 4004 models use stock Rick HB1 pickups, too (though I think he may only use the bridge pickup, with the rest just wired out!).

Cheers,
Carl

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
http://www.carlaz.com/