Matsumoko made Sears Silvertone 1490. First bass for many of us. I got mine for Christmas just before I turned twelve. $79 from the Sears catalog.
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Thunderbird Club
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I have always muted the higher strings with my left (fretting) hand. And I can't do that the way I used to (my fingers don't work the way they used to and are no longer fully independent)*. I haven't been able to find a convenient way to mute the higher strings with my right (plucking) hand. The geography of plucking from above the strings doesn't make it easy/possible to mute the higher strings (lower strings is easy; my thumb rests against them).
* Fingers not working the way they used to is a matter of training. A meaningful part of rehab has been learning the new muscles/tendons and rewiring the brain. The lack of independence will never go away and is just the way it is now. All I can do is try to find workarounds.
I've got the Stones mono CD box set, everything right up to 'Let It Bleed'. I like Phil Spector's stuff too and have a lot of it. Early Beatles is definitely better in mono, they spent all their time mixing it for mono, stereo was an afterthought but I know you already know that.
I have all The Beatles's stuff except for the anthologies out here on cassette and some of it is mono and some of it is fake stereo....on the same cassette.
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Mine never had a name on it at least when I bought it second hand from a friend's older brother. I paid twenty five bucks for it when I was about 14, a huge sum for me
and he had to chase me around all summer to get the money.It was something like this, long scale single pickup, sunburst, when I bought my first new P bass in 1970 I had to [edit]: lower the action after playing this thing for three years, I barely remember it though.
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godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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Anyone familiar with this repro Thunderbird pickup? It's marked SWD custom shop, it came out of a recent Tbird purchase I have yet to debut. From what I know of the basses history the latest it can be is around 2010.
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It was yesterday. Not sure many people in Nuevo Leon have that kind of cha-ching for a bass.Is this still available?
No cartel in the area? Or do cartel members not play music?
Sorry, been refreshing on Better Call Saul ahead of the new season being released.
it was the players that were mono, I raided all of my aunts record collections, and taped them, often with a recorder propped up against the console…
Yeesh. Late night brain fart. My mind was samplink "Rikki, don't lose that number" into the song.
What's funny is in my brain I thought that is the song you were thinking of.
According to Wiki Seymour Duncan's middle name starts with a 'W'.
Cartels only buy bolt on necks. To hard to swing neck throughs.
if you need someone to test it, I’ll have my single pickup DC parts assembled by then, minus the pickup.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
Interesting that there was a mono version of Axis given all the stereo panning in EXP. I think my vinyl is stereo, but now I need to check!
Regardless of how it was recorded, everything I listened to was played on a mono record player. Then sometime around 1975 I went to a friends house and his dad had a top end quadraphonic set up. He played a version of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here LP that was recorded in Quad and it opened my eyes (and ears) to a whole different level of listening enjoyment.
It might be better than Breaking Bad.
I love seeing the complex evolution of Saul and the way so many things/people contributed.
Ha I’m watching better call Saul now.
I do like it better than breaking bad.
I do like it better than breaking bad.
Honestly, I can’t decide which I like better.
But so agree on the complex evolution
of Saul.
pretty much all FSOs for narcocorridos…
