Hot or Not: You know I'm all about accuracy wiuwiu so I saw this at Dave's for a real good price and got it for my REM tribute even though I already had the 4003s

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Meatus McPrepuce
REM Band update:

1. I got a Fender Rumble Stage 800 ($900) because it has a "Dual Showman" head + cab model and that's what Mike Mills played through in the early days. Using it with my Ric I am able to get much much closer to his early REM tone than I was with the Mesa / BassRig setup (even though it sounded good). The band all agreed they said "wow that sounds super accurate, you are a cool and funny person" so that was nice. Plus now I can leave this rig at rehearsal and don't have to shuttle my Mesa head and pedalboard back and forth (it has onboard effects too)...

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But then yesterday I saw a 2016 Jetglo 4003 on Dave's for a real good price in excellent shape and I was like hmmm, my fireglo 4003s is more McCartney than Mills visually... he played a Jetglo (black) 4001... sooo I got it!

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It will arrive Friday... I think I am going to put the flatwounds back on the 4003s (i switched them for rounds when I joined the REM band). Anyways it will arrive tomorrow, weeeee!
 
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Thanks gang. I don't know if I mentioned this either but we got a new drummer and he is so good. Huge early REM fan, he already had the entire setlist down. We had our second rehearsal with him this past weekend and we all agreed that we're ready to gig. I was worried it would take us forever to find a new drummer after we kicked out our old one, and then forever again to get him up to speed, but over the span of three weeks we've gone from drummerless to gig-ready.... wowwowowowowowow
 
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The 4003s is back to McCartney style (flats) and the new one is all set up. It's awesome! and a few oz lighter than the old one...
 
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Thanks gang. I don't know if I mentioned this either but we got a new drummer and he is so good. Huge early REM fan, he already had the entire setlist down. We had our second rehearsal with him this past weekend and we all agreed that we're ready to gig. I was worried it would take us forever to find a new drummer after we kicked out our old one, and then forever again to get him up to speed, but over the span of three weeks we've gone from drummerless to gig-ready.... wowwowowowowowow
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The gear stuff...yeah, okay. Good stuff

But this is AWESOME!
 
Nice stuff! Did you find a drummer yet? When's the 1st gig?

Now that that's out of the way. Holy bat balls! Did you see your boy Freddy Freeman hit the first ever World Series walk-off Grand Slam? That was exciting! What a game too! Those Yanks are tough.
 
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