Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

I bought an ebony Gibson LE T-Bird in 2018 and had to really fight with myself not to buy the bright cherry T Bird that was also out that year.



Dark lousy picture (one of my trademarks) (Lull pickups)


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1400 bills for this whole thing including the 2x15 folded horn (64 total built, originally designed for Bill Wyman)….
should I ship to Lima?…

 

[dagrev]

The two step program this group keeps professing; see it, buy it.

It's simple and easy to remember when out alone.

 

[bobyoung53]

1400 bills for this whole thing including the 2x15 folded horn (64 total built, originally designed for Bill Wyman)….
should I ship to Lima?…
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Are they V4-B cabs? Either way yes......COD I have a head at home (my storage space) that's almost as nice as that one. That's a good deal actually.

 

[Gaolee]

Just think how much less time medical people would need to spend in school learning and memorizing names for things and parts that already have names everyone knows.

Exactly. Name the drug "Bruce" and a lot of problems would just go away.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Are they V4-B cabs? Either way yes......COD I have a head at home (my storage space) that almost as nice as that one. That's a good deal actually.

great deal, folks don’t want this stuff anymore…

 

[bobyoung53]

great deal, folks don’t want this stuff anymore…

I've heard that, it hasn't reached me yet. Anyone that passes that up is nuts.

 

[Stealth57]

Exactly. Name the drug "Bruce" and a lot of problems would just go away.

It is more naming the symptoms so they can sell you something that bothers me more. Hey, you have a hard time breathing. Can't sell that, so let's call it COPD. Must be dangerous. It has a name.

 

[dagrev]

I've heard that, it hasn't reached me yet. Anyone that passes that up is nuts.

I think small, good sounding amps have caused a lot of players who have to move/store their equipment to move away from the sound monsters of old. At least to some extent. Seems when players have their own rigs brought in for them or specify a backline, it's not the small but powerful heads that are out there. There are always exceptions, of course.

 

[dagrev]

Exactly. Name the drug "Bruce" and a lot of problems would just go away.

There are a lot of potential funny commercial lines for a drug called Bruce. "Bruce doesn't stink. Just liberally apply some Bruce and you too can start feeling good." Obviously it can get much more juvenile.

 

[bobyoung53]

It is more naming the symptoms so they can sell you something that bothers me more. Hey, you have a hard time breathing. Can't sell that, so let's call it COPD. Must be dangerous. It has a name.

A lot of the chemical names are almost impossible to remember though, and they try to give drugs and the diseases catchy names that you can't forget or just abbreviate them, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a little unwieldy . In fact COPD is an umbrella term for a bunch of different pulmonary diseases, I think that was done for insurance purposes in the U.S. My father passed away from Emphysema but nope they now call it COPD, I have Asthma, yup, COPD etc.

 

[bobyoung53]

I think small, good sounding amps have caused a lot of players who have to move/store their equipment to move away from the sound monsters of old. At least to some extent. Seems when players have their own rigs brought in for them or specify a backline, it's not the small but powerful heads that are out there. There are always exceptions, of course.

Oh yeah but between you and me (shhh, more for us) we know the big amps sound better . I do have to admit that I've played a few of the new dinky amps that sounded pretty good but again between me and you they did lack a certain "heft"

 

[Stealth57]

A lot of the chemical names are almost impossible to remember though, and they try to give drugs and the diseases catchy names that you can't forget or just abbreviate them, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a little unwieldy . In fact COPD is an umbrella term for a bunch of different pulmonary diseases, I think that was done for insurance purposes in the U.S. My father passed away from Emphysema but nope they now call it COPD, I have Asthma, yup, COPD etc.

Be careful. A lot of those COPD meds say may kill you if you have asthma...or is it just the lawyers talking?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

yeah but the 6V6 doesn’t compare to an EL-34 which is what we were discussing…

At some point someone had referenced 6v6, 6l6, etc. so I was addressing the tubes as a group. My point was simply that the internal connection is to cathode, which isn't necessarily ground. All that said, there were a handful of cathode-biased 6L6 amps, including early Fender Twins. I've never gotten to open one up; I've just seen the schematics.

 

[bobyoung53]

Be careful. A lot of those COPD meds say may kill you if you have asthma...or is it just the lawyers talking?

Mine has been good for many years now, just a touch left but I unlike a lot of people never read the thousands of possible side effects if I take a new med unless I start feeling odd, then I'll check them out. That's definitely because of lawyers although not likely pharmaceutical lawyers. Pillo definitely knows more than I do though.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I suppose it means something to somebody. It is an unpronouncable drug name to the rest of us.

The multifilter is essentially a six-band EQ with fixed settings, where you control only how much of the signal through it gets mixed back with the main signal, sort of like a flanger's comb filter with the sweep set to zero. The frequency centers are at 1000Hz, 1370Hz, 1900Hz, 2630Hz, 3630Hz and 5000 Hz.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

But does it have sparkles in the vinyl? That's what makes those Kustoms sound good....

Princess Fingers covering

 

[Miles_ONeal]

oh my….what have we here…
fittingly, from Jim Rosenberg, ex CEO of Epiphone
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How does it sound? I love the old Gibson amps but haven't played through many Epis.

 

[dagrev]

Mine has been good for many years now, just a touch left but I unlike a lot of people never read the thousands of possible side effects if I take a new med unless I start feeling odd, then I'll check them out. That's definitely because of lawyers although not likely pharmaceutical lawyers. Pillo definitely knows more than I do though.

Now you've done it. We'll get an over our heads lesson on how Calcium sulfate is good for an upset stomach. Or is that better for patching upset walls? It's got calcium so it's got to be good for your bones or something. Just chemicals. They all do the same thing, right?

(This is not medical advice, real or imagined. I'm a chemical idiot and not to be taken seriously when mentioning them. Or you will likely die.)

 

[dagrev]

Princess Fingers covering

I like it.

 

[KaraQ]

Princess Fingers covering

I like it.

This got me thinking..... have any of you guys that have issues with the cobalt? strings ever tried playing gloves like Scott Devine uses?
If so, did they help?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09W9V4G75/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_5KV7FG88D4N6AHKZDNPC_0