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Thunderbird Club

Almost 64 years old.........With my '64.

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so agree…LOVE that bass track…,..is it me or does any one else agree it should have been recorded on a 4001 with fresh RS66 in Ric-o-Sound mode?…..


Now that is a classic sound, I bought a ric-o-sound box last year but it got mailed to my brother's house in Mass (3rd one, long story), I've got a '79 4001 I've had for years and throw Rotos on just about everything, love the feel and sound. I used to do "Love Lies Bleeding" with my 4001 in a cover band.
 
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That head is 72-74. Red knob versions started in 75.


I had a 2000S head years ago, also had two 2000S cabs but at a different time than the head. I used the cabs with a Marshall Major, earthquake city. A bartender at one place we played regularly called us The Big Wind. You could feel the air hitting you out in front with that Marshall.
 
Almost 64 years old.........With my '64.

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The bass looks older than you, and the bass looks damn good. :bassist: I'll be 70 this coming March, arghhhh!!!!!!!!! I'm still very immature though, it makes me look younger........Well, I think so anyway. Here with my blues bass, the guitarist actually didn't yell when I brought the T-Bird a few months back though. But NO Rickenbackers! (He hears with his eyes)




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The bass looks older than you, and the bass looks damn good. :bassist: I'll be 70 this coming March, arghhhh!!!!!!!!! I'm still very immature though, it makes me look younger........Well, I think so anyway. Here with my blues bass, the guitarist actually didn't yell when I brought the T-Bird a few months back though. But NO Rickenbackers! (He hears with his eyes)




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Damn. You guys at 70 look younger than me at 64.
 
Thunderbird Club members are always welcome at our place. Bring a Thunderbird or three. We're 13 miles west of I5 near the top of Tejon Pass between L.A. and Bakersfield. Our backyard is the eastern edge of the Los Padres National Forest. Here's the view as I type this…..
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Beautiful.
 
The bass looks older than you, and the bass looks damn good. :bassist: I'll be 70 this coming March, arghhhh!!!!!!!!! I'm still very immature though, it makes me look younger........Well, I think so anyway. Here with my blues bass, the guitarist actually didn't yell when I brought the T-Bird a few months back though. But NO Rickenbackers! (He hears with his eyes)




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Great pic! Practicing your Bill Wyman, or do you normally play with the neck that high? A few do.
 
Thunderbird Club members are always welcome at our place. Bring a Thunderbird or three. We're 13 miles west of I5 near the top of Tejon Pass between L.A. and Bakersfield. Our backyard is the eastern edge of the Los Padres National Forest. Here's the view as I type this…..
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What a view! Makes a great desktop background!
 
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Don't retire and then only sign up for part A. No cost...part B...that's a different story.
I did a crash course on understanding Medicare part B a few years ago. And after I did the work that required the understanding, I dumped it out of memory. I can always learn again and the reimbursement rules are always being updated anyway.
 
Now that is a classic sound, I bought a ric-o-sound box last year but it got mailed to my brother's house in Mass (3rd one, long story), I've got a '79 4001 I've had for years and throw Rotos on just about everything, love the feel and sound. I used to do Love Lies Bleeding with my 4001 in a cover band.
yep, almost feels like he's trying to emulate that sound (from an FSO?) on various passages (particularly the verse part) of that track….. a dimed TBird IV would have probably sounded epic on that track as well…
 
I had a 2000S head years ago, also had two 2000S cabs but at a different time than the head. I used the cabs with a Marshall Major, earthquake city. A bartender at one place we played regularly called us The Big Wind. You could feel the air hitting you out in front with that Marshall.
yeah, if you recall (looked but couldn't find) one of their magazine adverts involved pictures of a 2000S into a 2 x 15 cab putting out a match….very effective marketing….my first rock rig was a white 4001 into a 2000S (paid 200 bucks for it) into a Sunn 4 x 12 cab……man! tone for days! really wanted a 2 x JBL 15 box but it wouldn't fit in the back of my 76 RS Camaro where the 4 x 12 would….