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In spite of the wear and corrosion, everything works and it plays and sounds great!

The bass has (or HAD) gold hardware, but it was gigged hard in humid East Texas, and the gold is pretty corroded. It’s too bad no one makes relic gold strap locks!

It definitely doesn’t have Schaller buttons installed. I’d thought about the toothpick trick, but wondered if there was another solution.

I recently acquired my late uncle's 2003 Warwick Corvette Jazzman FNA 5 string. I'd like to install some sort of strap locks on it, but the existing screws for the original strap buttons are quite a bit larger than the screws for either Dunlop or Schaller strap locks. What do Warwick owners use?

I recently acquired my late uncle's 2003 Warwick Corvette Jazzman FNA 5 string. I'd like to install some sort of strap locks on it, but the existing screws for the original strap buttons are quite a bit larger than the screws for either Dunlop or Schaller strap locks. What do Warwick owners use?

We had a heck of a time selling our 1911 house in Western Colorado. Everything was set to go with one offer, but she ended up backing out after the inspection because of some cracks in the brick fascia. We had a structural engineer's report from a couple of years earlier which said that the...

If you do, swing down to Colorado Springs and see me!

I’m not sure how I posted the photo twice

Only one ‘bird in the bunch, but I finally got all of my basses hung up after our move.

King Crimson?

I don't know much about Slade, but that's really cool.

Dee Murray!

He has a lot of great videos.

Jeeze... It looks like the original owner might have been killed in that incident. I'd tell everyone that that happened anyway.

Nice! We did that in the band I just left (due to moving).

I'm always amazed (and heartened) by how crappy isolated bass tracks by some of my favorite bassists sound. Entwistle, JPJ, McCartney... lots of noise and flubbed bits. About the only one I can think of who's isolated bass sounds nearly perfect is Geddy. It just goes to show you that it's all...

I wonder if that's partly due to the shape? I'm having a hard time thinking of how to phrase it, but I wonder if the shape of a Thunderbird is somehow less in contact with the player's body/arms/hands in the same way that Fenders are? Of course, it could also be down to the quality of the...

It’s like when Homer bought Marge a bowling ball for her birthday. With HIS name on it. And drilled out for HIS fingers. That worked out in the end. After a long detour where Marge almost had an affair with a charming French bowling instructor... but it worked out in the end (and resulted in...

How many do you suppose you could fit in an 8’ stretch if they were angled 45 or 90 degrees?

That’s the one I’m looking at.

Only limited Thunderbird content, but I finally got the rest of my basses moved from our old town to our new house. I got them all out and posed them for a not very good group photo. Now I need to decide what sort of hanging system I want to use to display them.

I played a Fiesta Red Road Worn Jazz a few years ago in a shop. It was absolutely THE best looking and playing new Jazz I've tried in ages. I should have bought it.

When my wife was in grad school in the early '90s, we lived in Lexington KY, and I worked in a shop that had a subsidiary shop that was a gift shop in the lobby of a downtown hotel. I sometimes had to work in that shop, usually on holidays. Labor Day weekend (I believe it was '92), I was...

I love it! I’ve used it at practice with one band, and with the added 2x10 for practices with a louder band, and with that setup for a few gigs where stage space was limited. I prefer the Ampeg head and 4x10 for gigs, but the Elf is a great little amp.

Happy birthday @TBird1958! God save the Queen! In honor of your birthday and Thunderbird Thursday, here’s a close up of my VP with covers and tug bar installed. Thanks @godofthunder59!

I remember the first time I heard that (also the first time I heard them). I was home from college for the summer. My parents had moved to a little town in eastern Colorado, and I had driven with my dad (a Methodist minister) to Colorado Springs. He was visiting a church member in the...

We played this in the band I was in until I moved this month. I love The Smithereens! I always used one of my Rics on this song.

Getting settled into our new house. I have some of my basses here, and some at a friend’s house in our old town. But I have all my amps and cabinets! And I just installed covers on my Epiphone VP so it’s kind of like the ‘64 I could have bought in ‘82 for $400... D’oh!!!!!!

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

How many plies of glue?

I mean just north of where you live now. Obviously, I have no idea where you were born! :laugh:

I was born in Georgetown, just north of you, though.

Conroe.

Me too, in the early '70s. Of course, my elementary school was built in like 1926 or something. It looked just like the school in "A Christmas Story", only it was in South East Texas so there was never any snow, and you'd just BURN your tongue if you stuck it on the flagpole.

That's got such a cool bass line.

Other than "Duke" (which I really like still), I didn't discover them until my first year of college, in '83. I dove in deep then, and they're probably my favorite of the classic Prog bands. Somewhat humorously, the first time i remember hearing Gabriel solo was when "PG 3" was first...

Right??? Well, it was early in Genesis' career. I used to work with a guy who's older brother took him to see Genesis in '73, when he was 13. It was his first concert. He said that after it was over, he asked if all concerts were like that. His brother said "Nope. Just Genesis."

The closest I've ever heard (and it was a very guarded comment) was in an interview where he was asked if he'd ever walked out of a concert. He said he saw Genesis open for Lou Reed in '72. He said they were great, but then Lou Reed just really couldn't follow them. I think the way he put it...

Or Freddie Mercury on the first couple of Queen albums.

How many innocent cans of hairspray gave their lives for that video?