Laminated pickguard with finger grip and “Thunderbird” logo on bottom boutĬa.Two humbucking pickups, two volume/one tone controls.Nickel-plated pickup covers, bridge cover and finger rest.Mahogany through neck, with rosewood fretboard.Honduras mahogany body in “reverse body”-style (bottom bout longer than top bout), sunburst finish.I go backwards and forwards like that all the time.” Specs Eventually I found that I had developed a new playing style, then discovered Alembic basses and went back to playing with treble.
So I changed to Sunn Colosseum power amps and a German preamp called a Stremp, and took up with the Thunderbirds. I felt I was getting stuck in a rut, using all the treble. “…by ‘ Quadrophenia’ and Who By Numbers I was playing Gibson Thunderbirds. John: “Once you turn up the treble on a Precision, the bottom drops out.” “In big arenas, I wasn’t getting enough bottom end from the P-Basses when I had the treble all the way up.” From April 1994 Bassist interview
On display through October 2019 at the Play It Loud Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.160065 (impressed to rear of headstock), in mahogany. Used at least two one accidentally destroyed by Keith Moon while exiting stage at Forest Hills in July 1971, breaking the neck off and John subsequently smashed it to pieces.
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