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Thunderbird Club

I have an American Vintage Hot Rod P/J with a graduated neck on it, 7.25 to 12" radius and 1 5/8 at the nut, it's a really nice neck but I played a '68 P bass with a 66 J neck on it for close to 20 years and got very used to 1 1/2 nuts, I have a Jazz now and my reverse 'Bird has a 1 1/2 nut also. I've owned P's with P necks but always missed the A necks so I just bought a nice American J neck from the Stratosphere with a black headstock to match the bass. The TF fretless neck I have feels very close to a J neck for some reason even though it's 1 5/8th at the nut.

Obligatory lousy, out of focus, dark Bob Young cell phone pictures:



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You must have the same flip phone as @GonePlaid
 
I stumbled across these Thunderbird pickups on Reverb. Anyone heard of these? I don't remember us ever discussing them. I couldn't find any sound clips of them.

Alternate Dimension Thunderbird Bass Humbucker set | Reverb

"Bigger bobbins means bigger coils for a bigger aperture which translates to a bigger tone. SO GOOD!!"

Bigger tone? Sign me up.

And they must be good if he is using ALL CAPS!!


"play light in your right hand for a quiet, mellow tone or really dig in to get a huge tone that invigorates your drummer"

Sorry @BklynKen it appears they are right handed only...

I've never had pickups that are quieter if you play more gently...

And I'm not sure I want an invigorated drummer...
 
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just a week shy of 13 months... I'm sure fedex will make it well over 13 months...

patience has paid off, got it below current cost. But have to put off my DC project and a couple others, defret soon.

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So a little internet "research" says that Paul played lead guitar and Harrison played bass on Taxman.


It depends on the source, there has been a lot of revisionist history out the past few years that attributes bass parts to Lennon, Harrison etc, I know Lennon played on a few and so did Harrison, but from what I've read when Paul would play piano or guitar one of the others would play bass and McCartney would go in after the basic tracks were done and overdub the bass but this would not be written on any studio logs sometimes. One famous example lately is people saying Lennon played the bass on Helter Skelter, there is no way he could have played that, he hated playing bass and was terrible, Harrison was pretty good but sounded like a guitar playing playing bass. I have even seen places where Harrison is credited with playing bass on Something, I don't believe it.


Taxman - Wikipedia
 
just a week shy of 13 months... I'm sure fedex will make it well over 13 months...

patience has paid off, got it below current cost. But have to put off my DC project and a couple others, defret soon.

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Those Embassies look like a bargain. I like the burgundy and green. When I saw the beige online I thought it was a terrible colour*, but in person it actually looks really good.


* Insert joke about driving a beige Volvo...
 
It depends on the source, there has been a lot of revisionist history out the past few years that attributes bass parts to Lennon, Harrison etc, I know Lennon played on a few and so did Harrison, but from what I've read when Paul would play piano or guitar one of the others would play bass and McCartney would go in after the basic tracks were done and overdub the bass but this would not be written on any studio logs sometimes. One famous example lately is people saying Lennon played the bass on Helter Skelter, there is no way he could have played that, he hated playing bass and was terrible, Harrison was pretty good but sounded like a guitar playing playing bass. I have even seen places where Harrison is credited with playing bass on Something, I don't believe it.


Taxman - Wikipedia
Hence my calling it internet "research"...