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• *Here at Gordy's Music in Ferndale, Michigan, we are so proud and grateful to receive the REVERB TOP 300 SELLERS Certificate for the second year in a row! A real honor.We want to start by thanking all of you, our customers, my partner wife Marcia, top notch crew, and Reverb.com. We have quite a team and will strive to get this certificate year after year.*

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The Gretsch G6199B Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Bass is a signature bass guitar designed in collaboration with musicians Bo Diddley and Billy F. Gibbons. The bass is modeled after the iconic Jupiter Thunderbird electric guitar, with a unique, angular body shape. Key features

• Design: The G6199B is built with a heavily chambered mahogany back and a three-ply maple top, which makes it lightweight while providing a resonant tone.
• Pickups: The bass is equipped with dual TV Jones Thunder'Tron pickups, which provide a wide variety of tones.
• Sound: It produces a big, warm, and punchy tone with a deep low end, suitable for a variety of music genres.
• Body style: The distinctive offset body shape sets it apart from traditional bass guitars.
• Fretboard: It features a rosewood fretboard with Neo-Classic "Thumbnail" inlays,
• SPECS:
  -Model Name: G6199B Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Bass
  -Series: Professional Collection
  -Colors: (815) Firebird Red Top w/ Black Back & Sides
  -Category: Bass Guitars
  -Scale Length: 30.3" (770mm)
  -Top: Laminated Maple
  -Bracing: NA
  -Back & Sides: Mahogany Body
  -Neck: Set Mahogany
  -Pickups: 2 TV Jones Thunder'TronTM Bass Pickups
  -Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups Position 3. Neck Pickup
  -Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume, Master Tone
  -Width at Nut: 1.6875" (43 mm)"
  -Fretboard: Rosewood 12" Radius (305mm)
  -Bridge: Rosewood-Based Space Control Bridge
  -Tailpiece: Gretsch G-Cutout Tailpiece
  -Hardware: Chrome-Plated
  -Finish: Gloss Urethane
  -Case: Includes G6248 Includes G6283 Deluxe Hardshell Case
  -Frets: 22 Jumbo
  -Machine Heads: Chrome-Plated Sperzel Locking Tuners
  -Unique Features: Neo Classic "Thumbnail" Inlay Position Markers, Aged Fingerboard, Headstock and Body Bindings, Black Plexi Pickguard, Schaller Straplocks, Adjustable Truss Rod.

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This rare bass looks new in person and in the pictures. If you get real close you will see the flaws are minimal. Light surface scratching on the pickguard and the finish on the back. The frets are like new with no wear anywhere on the instrument. The cavity covers still have the plastic on them. Hardly played and well taken care of. The bass came in from a ZZ Top clone band that no longer needs this bass as it was only used a few times. I also got a Dusty Hill 70's natural Telecaster bass for the same reason. They are changing direction.

This bass is no longer in production.

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Comes with it's original hardshell case in almost new condition and fully functional. Included is all the paperwork pictured, adjustable wrench, and keys to case.

• Bass weighs 6 lbs. 8 oz.
• Shipping box is 50"x8"x20"
• Shipping weight is 24 lbs.
• Shop at our Reverb Store for a bunch of vintage and other products at:
• https://reverb.com/shop/gordys-music

IN BUSINESS for 40 YEARS!!
50 YEARS of VINTAGE EXPERIENCE!
MICHIGAN GUITAR SHOW PROMOTORS Since 1989!
Brick and mortar to the end!

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Visit out website to see the long list of celebrity musicians and groups we have met and serviced in the past 40 years. 

NOTE: Too cool. We just shipped very recently in the last few months a 1967 MapleGlo Rickenbacker 6-12 Converter 'comb' guitar to Billy Corigan of Smashing Pumpkins! We also then shipped a vintage 50 watt Marshall head to L.A. studio-touring guitarist extraodinaire, Michael Landau, and 2 vintage guitars to Jack White's organization down in Nashville just a few days before his 50th. birthday! mmm? Add 'The Kentucky Head Hunters' to the list, just sold Greg a cool little 50's Valco tube combo amp!

Gordy's Music has become a Detroit institution! Our shop was used as a filming location for a few films like "Miracle in Motor City" a Christmas movie on Lifetime (featuring Smoky Robinson). We've supplied gear for movies including "Bill & Ted Face The Music" with Keanu Reeves. We've got decades of celebrity customers, including recent visits from Beck, Eric Johnson, and we recently sold Billy Joel's bassist a cool Gibson SG he is in love with. One day a while back Andre 3000 and his group stopped in to browse as they were playing Masonic Temple that night and right after that we sold an old oil can Morley Wah Vibrato pedal to Credence Clearwater Revival's thee John Fogerty!

We are having and have had a lot of fun here at Gordy's Music! I was just remembering about 35 years ago a tour bus pulled up to our little shop, and who rolls right in and hangs out for an hour? Lenny Kravitz and his entire group, right about the same time I was selling many guitars to and chauffeuring around Dee Dee Ramone who had an apartment a block down from my house.