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Many Just Don't Get IT, Gibson Thunderbird

#443
Furthermore, if I ever needed to play in a band that requires playing with a pick I'd consider playing a Tbird. Consider!! Lol[/QUOTE]

I have always dug the Gibson Thunderbird. So when I started with this awesome Pop Rock band and they wanted me to play with a pick.I knew it was the right time to purchase a Gibson Thunderbird.

Some of you know I found a 91, with a very thin neck with an ebony fret board and clasic burst.
 
#445
I'll post this here first.
A new Thunderbird from Gibson that I ordered today for a friend in Germany.
If you look closer you'll notice it's a short scale 'Bird!


More pics to follow when it arrives :)
hobbitbird1.jpg

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#446
I've always liked the T-Bird. A few years ago, I picked up a Blackbird, and I love it! Plays great, sounds great, and looks BADASS. I really like the single on/off switch. So much so, I stole the idea for my Custom Moser bass, hehehe... the volume knob on my Moser is for the booster. The bass itself has no volume or tone controls - only an on/off switch.

Cheers!
:bassist::bassist::bassist:
 
#447
TBird1958 said:
I'll post this here first.
A new Thunderbird from Gibson that I ordered today for a friend in Germany.
If you look closer you'll notice it's a short scale 'Bird!

hobbitbird2.jpg
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hmm... what's up with the knobs on that? They look out of alignment. I wonder if intentional or a sterling example of current QC...


Dr. Eagle said:
davidprice said:
You guys are making me understand why there's a market for basses with Maltese crosses on them... :ninja:
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Well, I guess I am not one to talk considering this:

Stauffenberg-DiewahreGeschichte.jpg


but, for the record, I got paid for this (for a docudrama for German ZDF-TV - sort of like PBS) and am not one of the guys that wears this stuff for weekend recreation :eyebrow: (and then tries to run for political office...) and it certainly doesn't reflect my political or social views. And I've 'been' Russian and American in other productions.
 
#448
As near as I can tell the knob placement is deliberate, I'm actually kind of excited to try this bass out, it should arrive some time next week. I haven't had a short scale bass since my first, a Japanese EBO copy not unlike the current Epi.

BTW David, you could tell us more about that pic too!
 
#449
davidprice said:
hmm... what's up with the knobs on that? They look out of alignment. I wonder if intentional or a sterling example of current QC...





Well, I guess I am not one to talk considering this:

Stauffenberg-DiewahreGeschichte.jpg


but, for the record, I got paid for this (for a docudrama for German ZDF-TV - sort of like PBS) and am not one of the guys that wears this stuff for weekend recreation :eyebrow: (and then tries to run for political office...) and it certainly doesn't reflect my political or social views. And I've 'been' Russian and American in other productions.
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Thats great! :)
 
#450
bluewine said:
Back east when I was coming up, if a guy came out on stage with a Gibson Thunderbird you knew it meant serious rock. At the time they were the icon bass for ultra cool rock look.
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I also took up the bass in 1966. I don't ever remember anyone using one of these. In the 60's guitar companies (except Fender) were completely and totally out of touch with what bass players wanted and needed, and thus got their behinds royally kicked by Fender. Like most, Gibson never figured it out. The T-Bird is a shining example of this. As far as meaning "serious rock", name one real bass player who used one. Name ANY bass player who used one! Maybe some kid who got a good report card, that's about it.
 
#451
TBird1958 said:
As near as I can tell the knob placement is deliberate, I'm actually kind of excited to try this bass out, it should arrive some time next week. I haven't had a short scale bass since my first, a Japanese EBO copy not unlike the current Epi.

BTW David, you could tell us more about that pic too!
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I wasn't aware the Gibson folks were doing a short scale T Bird.

The actor playing Hitler looks strangely like the fellow in Inglorious Basterds... Any relation?:hmm:
 
#452
TBird1958 said:
As near as I can tell the knob placement is deliberate, I'm actually kind of excited to try this bass out, it should arrive some time next week. I haven't had a short scale bass since my first, a Japanese EBO copy not unlike the current Epi.

BTW David, you could tell us more about that pic too!
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A detailed report when you get this. Any idea if this short scale Bird will be available Stateside? Curious.
 
#453
TBird1958 said:
As near as I can tell the knob placement is deliberate, I'm actually kind of excited to try this bass out, it should arrive some time next week. I haven't had a short scale bass since my first, a Japanese EBO copy not unlike the current Epi.
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I dig my danelectro. Opposite end of the spectrum from a Tbird but very useful.

TBird1958 said:
BTW David, you could tell us more about that pic too!
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'Day gig' of sorts: Invalid Link Removed

mark107 said:
Name ANY bass player who used one! Maybe some kid who got a good report card, that's about it.
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How to win friends and influence people... I posted this earlier but it is a long thread and perhaps you were just reacting to the original post:

davidprice said:
Let's see, beyond Nikki Sixx and other big hair bands, off the top of my head, and a very incomplete list, t-birds have been/are played by:

John Entwistle
Tom Petersson
Walter Becker
Chris Squire
Mike Watt
Jeff Ament
Krist Novoselic
Dusty Hill
Kim Deal
Adam Clayton
George Chambers (Chambers Brothers)
Kim Gordon
Leon Wilkeson
Allen Woody
Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash)
Tyran Porter (Doobie Brothers)
Shavo Odadjian
Horace Panter (The Specials)
Overend Watts
Tom Hamilton
Dave Pomeroy
Simon Gallup (The Cure)
Jerry Flowers (Keith Urban - country!)
Justin Meldal Johnson
Glenn Cornick (Jethro Tull)
The woman in Silverspun Pickups
Honorable mention to Chris Solberg with Santana using an Embassy.

A lot of the comments on this thread remind me of the kind of conservative mind-set that 'greeted' the electric bass when it was first introduced and dismissed it as an "inferior" toy and not a 'real' instrument.
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of course, much depends on one's subjective definition of a 'real' bass player :eyebrow: but some of these players actually can play.
 
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Rob Martinez said:
A detailed report when you get this. Any idea if this short scale Bird will be available Stateside? Curious.
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Guys, I ordered this today from Wildwood Guitars in Denver, Co. they had two in stock. Gibson announced the bass at the winter NAMM show, I think Clint posted a pic somewhere and of course there's a running thread @ LBO too.

David, absolutely cool "day job"! I'm jealous!
 
#456
davidprice said:
OT: I know some of the people that worked on Inglorious Basterds but he's not one of them. He's a well-known Polish stage actor - and has also played Stalin!
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Thats cool... great resume! Great influences too! Outstanding taste indeed!

I am playing Entwistle in the Broadway Production of Tommy... (well the bass player)... at University of California Davis two months hence. With the rest of the Who Tribute band I am in.

http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu/season/prod_details.aspx?p=35
 
#457
Dr. Eagle, here's a buddy of mine and his Who tribute band playing "The Real Me" with his Fenderbird thru a Sunn set up just like JAE's.

 
#458
TBird1958 said:
David, absolutely cool "day job"!
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I do agree ;) Unpredictable though -- sort of like with music.

And it seems much more artistically motivated and less ego/money driven over here than in L.A.

Dr. Eagle said:
Thats cool... great resume! Great influences too! Outstanding taste indeed!

I am playing Entwistle in the Broadway Production of Tommy... (well the bass player)... at University of California Davis two months hence. With the rest of the Who Tribute band I am in.

http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu/season/prod_details.aspx?p=35
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Cool! Great gig - if one can cut it. Davis is a nice town, too - HOT in the summer though.
 
#459
That part on movies, Maltese crosses etc. has been very much exhilarating ;) Do you have any photo in Soviet uniform, David?

Could you tell me something on the neck in t-birds? Like string spacing at the nut and the bridge, neck thickness, etc. I'd like to compare it with my main bass to see if it would be manually hard for me to swap these two basses.
 

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