[particleman]

Here's a video of a lefty playing a Bicentennial T-bird upside-down on the Craig Kilborn show. It's The Breeders. He's playing through an SVT stack and it sounds pretty good even with the cruddy audio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTMesbnCUF4

[Thijs]

Yeahhh, this is music straight from the hart. This is music with a steady 'nod' headbang.
I realy like the bass-sound indeed! A week ago I got myself a 410 hlf Ampeg cabinet and hooked to my Ampeg V4-BH top. This is the sound I long for... muddy edges around the sound! Aaa mááán!

Have Mercy!

[jules]

wow - I wonder how balanced that bass is? better or worse than the right way round...... and yeah great sound from it!

[doom]

Yup, that's why I love my two Bicentennials (though I'm pretty sure that's a 60's bird). A ringing tone but still a nice not too harsh grit to the sound. He's playing lefty with a bass stringed righty. That's not too common but kind of cool.

[Redbird]

It almost looks right upside down.

[jules]

How observant you all are! I didn't notice it strung that way. This makes me think that perhaps its a borrowed instrument? or did he always play that way. The great Albert King always played upside down like that.

you'd need a very long E string to string it back to front - maybe he didn't have one available?

and yeah the thumbrest and logo say sixties bass - can't see the bridge or pups close enough

[particleman]

You guys have good eyes. It looked like a Bicentennial to me. Guess i was wrong! And yes, it is strung for a righty. I saw this band once sometime in 2002 (?) but i think they had a different bass player at the time, because i don't remember anything about an upside-down Tbird, and i'm sure i would have remembered something like that.

[Dave W]

IIRC his name is Mando Lopez. He was with them for the 2001-02 incarnation of the band.

The original Breeders' bassist was Josie Wiggs.

As much as I like the Breeders, I'd rather see Kim on bass in the Pixies.

[particleman]

Didn't Josie start another band called The Josephine Wigg 5000 or something?

I'm a huge Breeders fan, more so than the Pixies, which I know makes me a blasphemer to a lot of people...

[Dave W]

Originally Posted by particleman

Didn't Josie start another band called The Josephine Wigg 5000 or something?

Are you thinking of the Kelley Deal 6000? That happened about 1995 or so, after Kelley was busted (the Breeders were on hold then) and Kelley formed the band after she got out of drug rehab in Minnesota. Didn't last too long.

Josie Wiggs had left the Breeders earlier to be with her lover and fellow bassist Sara Lee. Excellent bassist but, ermm, not a breeder. :wink:

I'm a huge Breeders fan, more so than the Pixies, which I know makes me a blasphemer to a lot of people...

Not to me. All a matter of personal taste. Kim is great, whatever band she's in.