Lemmy

[martyn white]

Excellent!



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 From: Richard Lockwood <richard.lockwood at GMAIL.COM>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET 
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Lemmy
 

It's all a bit technical for me.

I find that detuning your guitar and hitting it with a spanner works pretty
well, whatever the pickups are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDipEjnD0F8

C'mon - you've missed me!

Cheers,

Rich.



On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>wrote:

> 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/
>