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The chickenhead switch could create 4001 tones as well as those of an EB3.
I sold it because the 30" scale with flatwounds didn't sound as good as my Bravewood '55 Precision replica.
If I had more funds at the time I would have kept both, but I was a student and could only afford the one bass.
If you're going Gibson then I would try to find one where the owner has already bought the Hipshot replacement bridge, but I'd still want the 3 point in the case.
Thunderbirds have a following. The Gibson bass guitars that I fancied were the RD and Victory. The former is now hugely expensive. The latter does not come up for sale very often.
In fact apart from the Thunderbird (I had a ‘76) and the earlier EBs (a ‘61 EB-2 was the best), most of the Gibson basses I’ve owned or played have been a bit clunky...
The original design EB-0 and EB-3 are nice, before they made the bodies thicker and set the neck in deeper in the early 70s - the later ones are physically stronger but also lumpy and dead-sounding by comparison.
The long-scale EB-3 is great-sounding but even more unbalanced, sadly.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Not all of them. The EB-2, EB-0 and Thunderbird are pretty good. The original EB-1 is a bit weird and possibly lumpy, but far from dead-sounding.
And actually the Les Paul Triumph I had wasn't bad either. The less said about the G3 I briefly owned the better though... a sort of very inferior version of the Ripper, itself best known for explaining the law of gravity to Krist Novoselic, rather than its qualities as a bass! (Novoselic seems to be the main reason for the RD's inexplicable value, too.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
An EB-0 was the first good bass I ever owned - they're quite limited in sound palette, that single PU at the end of the neck has little treble on offer. The later version moved the PU back toward the bridge which is said to improve things. The neck on my EB-0 was very nice - slim and not clubby at all. Unlike the SG bass I had a year or two ago - that had a much broader range of sounds but the neck was a bit too deep and rounded for my taste - but then, any bass neck feels wrong after trying a Ric.