Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

In August 2018 I had a Bilateral Lung Transplant. The 9 hour surgery had my arms bent into a bad position that often results in ulnar nerve damage. I couldn't even spread the fingers on my right hand, and my pinkie on that hand felt like it was bring cut open if you touched it with a string. I couldn't write, and could barely hold a fork. Here's a picture of me two weeks later in the hospital playing my uke bass. It took me at least a year to get close to the speed and accuracy that I used to be able to play sixteenth notes with alternating fingers. I started dabbling with pick playing but I'm still a hack at that. Don't lose hope. I'm back to full strength playing-wise.
Unfortunately, I'm writing this from my hospital bed. I spent 19 day in the hospital with pneumonia and a possible fungalinfection, only to be discharged then bounce back in 10 days later with low blood pressure induced fainting and a different infection in my lungs.
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Way to hang in there! Best wishes for a good recovery.

 

[dagrev]

Funny how that works. I tried to bring a guitar upstairs and leave it where I could pick it up regularly. I was informed that I was allowed to bring it up, but it had to go back downstairs to the basement and was not to be left upstairs anywhere. Oh.

Clear out a section in the basement right next to the instruments for shoes and handbags. Please report back. When you can.

 

[dagrev]

GHS Boomers….BRIGHT….

Like all rounds they lose some brightness. But they gain some nice thick punch with more low mids than most rounds, at least in my applications. Some think they go dead quick, but I'm never looking for really bright so they work well on one of the VPs and a G&L.

 

[MCF]

Funny how that works. I tried to bring a guitar upstairs and leave it where I could pick it up regularly. I was informed that I was allowed to bring it up, but it had to go back downstairs to the basement and was not to be left upstairs anywhere. Oh.

For now, I get away with quite a bit actually. My wife is pretty good about my hobby. I have the little Rumble in the corner of the family room, a Marshall combo in my home office with six basses on the wall, a room upstairs with an amp and more basses on the wall and the master bedroom where for now I’m allowed to have my Mesa rig and a couple of basses (but a bit of grumbling about that is beginning). I keep three or four basses at the mountain place and a Hartke combo (surprisingly great tone with Thunderbirds) in the upstairs loft area with my cds, some vinyl, the turntable and a Blu-ray player. But it all goes to the basement in a couple of years. That has been made very clear. The basement is basically finished with plastered and painted ceiling and walls, carpet, lights, etc., but it will need some work to make it my “studio.” I’ll be asking for advice on that when the time comes.

 

[johndb]

Wishing you a speedy recovery to good health and perhaps a Thunderbird.

I recently picked up my first Thunderbird, an Epiphone T-Bird Pro 4 string in transparent black. Love the multi laminate neck and the stealthy appearance.

 

[MCF]

I don't regret selling the Pro V. But I simply couldn't play that neck. The others are staying (which isn't saying much when you only have three, in a club where the average number seems to be 112 or something).

If you must sell, try to sell it in the TC first to keep it in the family!

Yep. Club members have right of first refusal.

 

[johndb]

Funny how that works. I tried to bring a guitar upstairs and leave it where I could pick it up regularly. I was informed that I was allowed to bring it up, but it had to go back downstairs to the basement and was not to be left upstairs anywhere. Oh.

Ridiculous! I've got two basses in the living room alone (and a Fender Studio 40 modeling amp). Assert your authority if you own the house or contribute 50/50 to the mortgage!

 

[MCF]

I recently picked up my first Thunderbird, an Epiphone T-Bird Pro 4 string in transparent black. Love the multi laminate neck and the stealthy appearance.

Can’t wait to see the pics of it when you’re better. Congratulations!

 

[JJR58]

1/3 of a stop is nothing with film. And exposure meters are just an opinion of what you might like to do; you can have your own exposure goals aside from the light meter; a spot meter is your friend. My 2 Nikons have dead-on meters; not bad for having been manufactured in the early 80s. But for night time, I use a spot meter.

Exactly!!! And you having the experience that you have, I’ve got a lot of respect for.

 

[JIO]

Did he shriek at you? That'll get yer attention.

No, haven't heard one shriek - wild turkeys out here are also something to watch out for. They are big and I wouldn't want to hit one sauntering across the road in a blind turn. Add to that deer - I was doing a fast twisty descent under mottled tree-covered light once at summer dusk and I luckily saw a deer on the side of the road up ahead (invisibly blending in) and yelled causing it to bolt in front of me. (before got there) If I hadn't yelled he would have side-swiped me.

 

[JIO]

Looks like the wear on the finish at the end of the neck is normal/expected on these basses? Mine has the same.

Apparently - a hair-line neck/fb separation at the nut seems common on '60s T-birds. ATC there's no need to panic - it ain't goin' nowhere.

 

[JIO]

Yep, it looks shot. Probably time for a new one.

Has it changed much since you've had it?

I only more recently noticed it at all. When I got it in '78, it wasn't "like new", but it could have been considered a "closet classic". I put most all dings in it since then.

 

[KaraQ]

Interesting our differences. I've always [strongly disliked] the Tele head shape. Bass or 'treble'.

I strongly dislike all of the Fender & Fender-ish headstock & body shapes

It's why I don’t have any, don't want any.

Well, that, and the ergos are atrocious, imo.

Funny how that works. I tried to bring a guitar upstairs and leave it where I could pick it up regularly. I was informed that I was allowed to bring it up, but it had to go back downstairs to the basement and was not to be left upstairs anywhere. Oh.

One of the many, many, advantages of living alone (just a couple of nuisance cats......), there's nobody around to try & tell me what I can & can't do

 

[Stealth57]

I guess you can’t mention weapons or you get scolded…I thought exploding headstock’s qualified?

 

[DJ Bebop]

Watching the movie Summer of Soul and came across the Chambers Brothers set...

 

[BklynKen]

Watching the movie Summer of Soul and came across the Chambers Brothers set...
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Such a great movie. And nice catch.

 

[Rezdog]

Greetings from the North,

I just watched it last weekend. It got me wondering if he used that TBird in the studio on Chambers Brothers hit tracks like 'Time' and 'Lets Get Funky'.

Rezdog

 

[DJ Bebop]

Greetings from the North,

I just watched it last weekend. It got me wondering if he used that TBird in the studio on Chambers Brothers hit tracks like 'Time' and 'Lets Get Funky'.

Rezdog

Maybe...

 

[DJ Bebop]

Such a great movie. And nice catch.

You don't see them used much in soul and funk.

 

[dagrev]

Ridiculous! I've got two basses in the living room alone (and a Fender Studio 40 modeling amp). Assert your authority if you own the house or contribute 50/50 to the mortgage!

Can't miss this in the music room right inside the front door. To the left is a doorway that you walk by to enter the rest of the house.