Thunderbird Club

[TBird1958]

latest on that Corvette purchase…..
Bad news; Car would not appraise because of the after market Pro Charger…
Good news; Did get a nice loan so looking for sumthin else….

Time for a '64 T Bird - Not one the one with wheels

 

[GonePlaid]

Time for a '64 T Bird - Not one the one with wheels

67 TBird-with wheels.

 

[GonePlaid]

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[Gaolee]

None of my neck-through Thunderbirds have any dead or weak spots. The set-neck Epi seems OK as I remember; the new NR has a less vocal spot at on the A at Bb-B, but no dead spots by any means.

It is less a dead spot than a weak spot. And I have noticed it on the Flamingo and the '15. On rare occasions, it pops up on the pixie dust '01.

 

[Gaolee]

I’ve been watching this one, impeccable condition (although not completely original, but tastefully upgraded), great celebrity back story and provenance, plus you can get all your gear and the wife and kids and dog in the car at the same time. The perfect gig mobile!
Used 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad in Anaheim Hills CA
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The beige and blue interior looks awful to me. Just a fact.

 

[GBassNorth]

It is less a dead spot than a weak spot. And I have noticed it on the Flamingo and the '15. On rare occasions, it pops up on the pixie dust '01.

I’ve yet to find a 34” scale bass that doesn’t have at least one weak spot, usually on the G string around the 5th fret. I’d call it a weak spot if the fundamental note doesn’t sustain as long as the other notes one or two frets up and down from that note.

That said, I’ve run into a couple of Fender basses where it’s beyond weak, the fundamental note drops out in less than a second, I’d call that a dead spot. I don’t recall any of my Tbirds having that problem, although I don’t recall testing the BlingBird for it and it does have a Fender neck. I’ll have to check that one today.

I also haven’t noticed any weak or dead spots on my short scale basses FWIW.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Time for a '64 T Bird - Not one the one with wheels

can you please get out of my brain? lol

 

[GonePlaid]

I’ve yet to find a 34” scale bass that doesn’t have at least one weak spot, usually on the G string around the 5th fret. I’d call it a weak spot if the fundamental note doesn’t sustain as long as the other notes one or two frets up and down from that note.

That said, I’ve run into a couple of Fender basses where it’s beyond weak, the fundamental note drops out in less than a second, I’d call that a dead spot. I don’t recall any of my Tbirds having that problem, although I don’t recall testing the BlingBird for it and it does have a Fender neck. I’ll have to check that one today.

I also haven’t noticed any weak or dead spots on my short scale basses FWIW.

Hmm. Now that it's mentioned, my(no longer)Squier VM Jag SS bass had a dead spot right in that area. I'd hafta play that pitch somewhere else on the [uncomfortable] neck.

 

[GBassNorth]

The beige and blue interior looks awful to me. Just a fact.

Maybe thats why Bruce Willis sold the car, who knows. But I’m with you on the interior (and exterior). I love the Nomads and 55 is my favorite year (before they started all the heavy chrome and painted insets). The only reason I haven’t put an offer down on it is the interior and exterior color schemes - I’m just not into powder puff blue and vanilla on cars. CAR on that car with a black interior would be the ticket for me. I also like black cars, but not on that one, it would look too much like a hearse.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Black accentuate's gold - ...and a gold Goth.., I like that dichotomy.

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I get it. I like it as is, but would still love to see one with gold everything. Call it the Goldfingers.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I appreciate that. I’ve occasionally gone to Ultimate Guitar and picked up a tab to help figure out a particularly hard passage in a given song.

When I can't figure it out by ear / with whoever I'm playing with[1], I just google and then run through 3 or 4 tabs until between them I can get close to what I'm hearing.

[1] Ahem

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Tabs are more confusing than sheet music.... My music reading is very low. Lower than that. At church I use chord charts--and at at times they are off. You still have no sense of timing or feel and have to bring that to the table yourself.

Half the time the chords are not over the words/syllables they should be, in my experience.
I used to read quite well. I seldom need to, so I'm a bit slower now, but then I seldom need to. I can read sheet music, tabs, or use chord charts. I need to get back to practicing with Nashville.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I bought the Ultimate Guitar lifetime pro tabs when it was offered for $50. It has all of that and it's great.

Not sure if it's still offered as a lifetime subscription but they have been true to their word and I've been using it for 8 years now for no additional cost.

Sometimes those offers are their startup capital.

 

[GBassNorth]

I get it. I l;ike it as is, but would still love to see one with gold everything. Call it the Goldfingers.

Gold, almost everything on this bird (pups and pickguard black)…

Last I looked on Reverb there was a Gold anniversary bird that someone put gold pup covers and trim rings on. Looked ok, but I kinda like the cleaner look of the black pups on the gold bird.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The bass line starts on the and of 4 in that one. When it goes back to the opening riff about halfway through, I always screw it up. It's not hard once you figure it out, but I have a mental block for some reason.

Similar to Ball of Confusion!

 

[TBird1958]

can you please get out of my brain? lol

Too late!

You know you want one!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

why don’t they do this with TBirds? flawed design from the get-go as V pointed out?…
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Do what with TBirds?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Ooops. My apologies to your pet. I thought you came upon it someplace. It's interesting looking as far as snakes go. Just not a snake person, no matter the make or model. Found a 3ft skin yesterday by the neighbor's drive. Not impressed.

I get along fine with them but my wife loathes them. So I occasionally get to handle one if she's nowhere around.

 

[TBird1958]

I’ve yet to find a 34” scale bass that doesn’t have at least one weak spot, usually on the G string around the 5th fret. I’d call it a weak spot if the fundamental note doesn’t sustain as long as the other notes one or two frets up and down from that note.

That said, I’ve run into a couple of Fender basses where it’s beyond weak, the fundamental note drops out in less than a second, I’d call that a dead spot. I don’t recall any of my Tbirds having that problem, although I don’t recall testing the BlingBird for it and it does have a Fender neck. I’ll have to check that one today.

I also haven’t noticed any weak or dead spots on my short scale basses FWIW.

After giving up on my first 7ender ('73 Precision), I traded it in for an original Music Man - that bass played so nice, but I could never really get a tone out of it that I liked (clacky mostly) , G string was useless, might as well not been there.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

There is for church music (hymns and modern music), but not sure about secular music. We pay a fee and we can use, print music and words and the writer's get some portion so they aren't ripped off. We can change the key and get chord sheets, Lead sheets (think vocal and just treble clef), and full sheep music. No tabs. Very handy, but the chords aren't always with over the right words so at times you have to do some adjusting.

The CCLI would be a good model for all of it.