Thunderbird Club

[El Diablo Rojo]

I've been really disappointed with my pedalboard set up for a bit, my Boss GE-7 EQ was more hiss than EQ and my Plumes fuzz pedal never really gave me the tone I was looking for. I bit the bullet and bought a Darkglass Microtubes X Ultra and oh baby! The T'bird sounds like rolling thunder of doom with this thing. So if anyone is in the market for a Boss EQ and or a EarthQuaker Plumes fuzz pedal......LOL

 

[GonePlaid]

They admitted they shipped cobalt rounds. Sending EBCF's now. Item #2813 is the right one.

 

[PillO]

talk about a cool place to hang….
Ken recently returned a pickguard and upon opening;
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thank you, class act you are, Sir.

Cool!!

Now I am curious if shark teeth can be used as picks. And would Great White use them?

 

[PillO]

Fond of the Germans too.

Can't find German Sheppards in England, only Alsatians...

 

[PillO]

I've been really disappointed with my pedalboard set up for a bit, my Boss GE-7 EQ was more hiss than EQ and my Plumes fuzz pedal never really gave me the tone I was looking for. I bit the bullet and bought a Darkglass Microtubes X Ultra and oh baby! The T'bird sounds like rolling thunder of doom with this thing. So if anyone is in the market for a Boss EQ and or a EarthQuaker Plumes fuzz pedal......LOL

L&M now carry Dark Glass. When they have both the vintage and the modern in stock, I plan to so a side by side comparison... Curiosity more than anything as I am still very happy with the EHX HotWax

 

[GBassNorth]

Very sad today. I had everything on my CP torn down so I could oil the FB, change the foam out on the pickups so I could get them lower, did the final compound polish on the chip repair, cleaned the entire bass and bridge(intentionally took out the saddles). I was ready for new EBCF's. Opened that package and...

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So you got the Ernie Ball Cobalt “Fats”.

 

[GonePlaid]

L&M now carry Dark Glass. When they have both the vintage and the modern in stock, I plan to so a side by side comparison... Curiosity more than anything as I am still very happy with the EHX HotWax

Only dark glass I know holds my dark beer.

 

[GonePlaid]

So you got the Ernie Ball Cobalt “Fats”.

 

[GonePlaid]

"Someone" might be interested(N/A). GIBSON thunderbird non-reverse 2013 bass guitar | eBay

 

[Stealth57]

I love the Germans..my GF is a German national. We plan on moving to Berlin full time in about 2 years once my youngest finished college.

Love Berlin.

 

[icefly]

I put a Supertone on mine as well and it did help. I can live with the amount of dive it has now but tuners may be on the horizon.

Beautiful Jack Cassady.
Suddenly got GAS feelings for short scale bass, more exactly Epiphone Rumblekat.
Found one on eBay...for my pocket, it's doable.

 

[PillO]

Love Berlin.

I have quite enjoyed Frankfurt. Had a meeting at the Frankfurt Marriot on Hamburger Allee. I had no end of amusement at that.

 

[Gaolee]

 

[icefly]

Holy mother of watermelons

 

[Stealth57]

Such senseless violence.

 

[bobyoung53]

"Someone" might be interested(N/A). GIBSON thunderbird non-reverse 2013 bass guitar | eBay

Odd but that's about the third bass I've seen since yesterday that had had a chemical reaction from something left in the case that screwed up the finish, one was a curly Q cord, the other one I forgot, this one not sure if it's from something in the case but what else?

 

[BklynKen]

talk about a cool place to hang….
Ken recently returned a pickguard and upon opening;
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thank you, class act you are, Sir.

So glad everything got there safe and sound! I had no idea there was mail today. It's a federal holiday.

 

[5StringBlues]

Reminds me of my uncle Thomas' chili.

 

[WillyW]

Just in case anyone cares, here are the bottoms of the two CP pickups from my February 2014. First is neck, second bridge. Both have manufacturing dates from October 2013.

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I don’t recall my CP’s pickups having a sticker under the glued on foam… not even sure what year mine is.

 

[bobyoung53]

I love the Germans..my GF is a German national. We plan on moving to Berlin full time in about 2 years once my youngest finished college.

I spent two or three months in Germany in 1981, I did an album in a studio called Dieter Dierks Studios, The Scorpions were his big band, I think he managed them or at least they recorded here. Very nice studio for the time, was a double, two bands recorded there at the same time, two 24 track machines in two different studios with IIRC more tracks available in a mobile which I never saw. It had its own hotel and everything, the album never got picked up and the producer never paid the studio so no copies, (sucked anyway ) although there are a few lo fi copies somewhere but I don't have one. I actually saw real flanging done, the engineer had two 2 (I think 2 track) track machines going and touched one lightly with his forearm to get it slightly behind the other one to create the out of phase swish, very interesting, it took him several times to get it right.
I saw the street where the Star Club used to be.
But yes it was a very nice country, people were nice, most spoke pretty good english and at least at the time there were a lot of underground clubs, it was kind of beatnick-y, neat country.