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#204,061
BklynKen said:
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.
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PillO said:
Everything good in one movie - car chases and fantastic musicians.
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Stealth57 said:
It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank, half pack of cigarettes, it’s dark out, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
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Love that movie! :thumbsup:

An old Mopar tank, car chases, good music, and Princess Leia with a not-lazer machine gun. What's not to love? :smug:
 
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Good evening Thunderbird loving sisters and brothers. I haven't been around much lately and am glad to be back. Recently played my first gig with the "Eastern fusion " group. Very challenging, very different, but great fun. We played for two hours, and a young lady danced for two half hour sets. I suspect most of the crowd was there for the belly dancer, or the food, but I had great fun and the band was warmly received. I am looking forward to gigging again soon with them.
I am hoping for a little advice. I am strongly considering recording our rehearsals, as the music is very different from anything I have ever played. Is anyone familiar with the hand held recorders? I have looked at products from Tascam and zoom. Any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have Dunlop strap locks on a few basses, and wish to install them on the new NR bird, and the Explorer. The screws are longer and thicker than the originals. Drilling a pilot hole, installing a bigger screw in the back of the heel pocket is concerning to me. I don't wish to damage my basses in any way. Any experience with these installations? Any cause for my concern? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I hope everyone is enjoying a relaxing evening. Have a great weekend.
 

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Border said:
Good evening Thunderbird loving sisters and brothers. I haven't been around much lately and am glad to be back. Recently played my first gig with the "Eastern fusion " group. Very challenging, very different, but great fun. We played for two hours, and a young lady danced for two half hour sets. I suspect most of the crowd was there for the belly dancer, or the food, but I had great fun and the band was warmly received. I am looking forward to gigging again soon with them.
I am hoping for a little advice. I am strongly considering recording our rehearsals, as the music is very different from anything I have ever played. Is anyone familiar with the hand held recorders? I have looked at products from Tascam and zoom. Any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have Dunlop strap locks on a few basses, and wish to install them on the new NR bird, and the Explorer. The screws are longer and thicker than the originals. Drilling a pilot hole, installing a bigger screw in the back of the heel pocket is concerning to me. I don't wish to damage my basses in any way. Any experience with these installations? Any cause for my concern? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I hope everyone is enjoying a relaxing evening. Have a great weekend.
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I put straploks on my 2018 Epiphone IV. It had normal buttons on the butt and upper neck bolt.

Straploks sit the screw lower so the screws go in deeper. As a result, the screws are too wide to fit.

The first thing I did was grind the screw heads down so they fully inserted into the straploks. The bottom button worked fine as is.

The neck was a different story. The screw was over 1/8” too long and measurements indicated it might hit the back of the finger board. I cut three treads off the tip and it worked fine.

Last thing was installing the locks on the strap and putting the top one on backwards so it doesn’t twist.
 
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Border said:
I am strongly considering recording our rehearsals, as the music is very different from anything I have ever played. Is anyone familiar with the hand held recorders? I have looked at products from Tascam and zoom. Any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Great to hear about the successful gig! I use an older version of this and it's worked great for me for many years. I hear good thing about the Zoom ones as well, but I have no experience.

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Border said:
Good evening Thunderbird loving sisters and brothers. I haven't been around much lately and am glad to be back. Recently played my first gig with the "Eastern fusion " group. Very challenging, very different, but great fun. We played for two hours, and a young lady danced for two half hour sets. I suspect most of the crowd was there for the belly dancer, or the food, but I had great fun and the band was warmly received. I am looking forward to gigging again soon with them.
I am hoping for a little advice. I am strongly considering recording our rehearsals, as the music is very different from anything I have ever played. Is anyone familiar with the hand held recorders? I have looked at products from Tascam and zoom. Any recommendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have Dunlop strap locks on a few basses, and wish to install them on the new NR bird, and the Explorer. The screws are longer and thicker than the originals. Drilling a pilot hole, installing a bigger screw in the back of the heel pocket is concerning to me. I don't wish to damage my basses in any way. Any experience with these installations? Any cause for my concern? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I hope everyone is enjoying a relaxing evening. Have a great weekend.
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I have the cheap Zoom H1. Its a few years older so doesn't look exactly like the one at the link. Worked great for recording practice and sharing the songs with bandmates. Easy to use, just not going to offer a ton of bells & whistles.

https://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H1n-Han...locphy=9030098&hvtargid=pla-510207101957&th=1
 
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#204,075
KaraQ said:
I think that may be how the Blackbirds are wired, I'll have to check mine this weekend. It's really got a lot of output, more than any of my other basses, even the active ones. Even with "broken-in" flats.....
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I doubt it's wired series unless the "both-on" gives the volume boost. And usually when pickups are wired series there's only one master volume and a switch for pickup combinations. Of course the exception comes from Gibson as the Bicentennial has the series wiring when both pickups are on and it has the traditional vol-vol-tone config. I believe that's why the pickups on it are "mismatched" ohm-wise so that strange paraller-series wiring works. Let me try to find the specs.
 
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PhR75 said:
I doubt it's wired series unless the "both-on" gives the volume boost. And usually when pickups are wired series there's only one master volume and a switch for pickup combinations. Of course the exception comes from Gibson as the Bicentennial has the series wiring when both pickups are on and it has the traditional vol-vol-tone config. I believe that's why the pickups on it are "mismatched" ohm-wise so that strange paraller-series wiring works. Let me try to find the specs.
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The Blackbirds, both Epiphone & Gibson, normally have only an on/off switch, that both pickups are wired to, then to the output jack.
Mine has had that switch replaced with a volume pot, otherwise the wiring should be the same.

I'll have a look when I get home, or tomorrow, and see what's going on with mine, but I've not yet been able to find diagrams or pics to compare with an unmodified one.
Work keeps getting in the way :meh:
 
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