I don't care if I have two in the hand, I like that Bird in the bush! Kat, the mods were very tastefully done, beautiful bass!Bird of Paradise
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Thunderbird Club
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This and the one at Lull's shop. Great.Me and Velvet Elvis at Seattle's Bogart's
It is the first Lull Tbird according to Mike when he sold it to me.
Haji
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That's a Bumper I'd actually play.Xmas present #2 (3? 4?, I forget) arrived Thursday!
The Performer, a Fender even Fender lovers can hate. Skinny neck, 24 frets, pointy headstock, weird shaped pickups, and Thunderous sound!
Made for less than a year in the 80s before they realized it wasn't playing any music on their cash register.
Anything that's not just another P or J interests me these days.
Haji
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A promoter friend of mine manages a band called The Clover Club (check em out on Spotify and several othet places. They're bad ass). Their bass player has a Blacktop Yazz with the
Doubled Yazz pups (quadded yazz pups?) Through an SVT, IIRC, and it's pretty huge sounding. He said he got it really cheap, which I think is the best way to get a Bumper bass.
Haji
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Hmm. If you still have it in a few weeks... just now saw it, don't know if I'm sticking my face in unceremoniously, but hey. I'm sitting back down now... lol
Better than my crosses...I've been hangin and hangin waiting to (Re) post this pic for the Twelfth Day.
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The killswitch on my Epi Blackbird is a great feature- I use it all the time! Breaking at a gig, I just hit the killswitch. Tuning? Hit the killswitch. Between tunes and there's a tech issue? Killswitch. Band practice, any reaon when we're not playing that makes no noise a good idea... I miss it on the Hamer now- it's b ecoming a standard item on all Roger's basses...
Count - you've really got me thinking now. I have dozens and dozens of basses but not one of them has a kill switch. I've never needed one when not gigging (noodling, practice, jam sessions) and when I was gigging I just muted with my tuner pedal between songs if needed. I suppose if you're wireless the kill switch before the transmitter would come in very handy. Am I missing something?
For me, I use a rack and no pedal so I don't have the tuner option. I'd have to run to my rack Wich is often not on stage, hidden behind stuff ect and I've actually turned my tuner off trying to hit the mute.
Yes I have. I might still be inclined to use the Thunderbuckers though.
It did cross my mind but when I asked people there was general agreement it wasn't worth the bother.
All that was done is the stock parts were replaced with chrome parts. In fact it still has all the black screws as all the new chrome screws were too small for the existing thread holes, or in the case of the bridge, two of the height adjust grub screws were missing the hex socket/indent thingy and wouldn't take an Allen key at all.
The eventual EB3 will probably have the same control layout mod - VV aligned on the diagonal. The SG control layout is very cramped. The next Bird will be V only, no issues with crowding there.
Did I miss a photo?? Went back three or four pages...
If I did would you mind reposting it? Thanks in advance.
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I could have chosen the black one, but the White Chrome Pearl finish was so much more stunning IRL than on pictures on the 7ender website.
All chrome hardware has been replaced for black chrome, and if I find an all-black pickguard or black Jazz Bass Special neck at a reasonable price, I might add that as well.
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
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hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Interesting to read about the different ways you guys are using a killswitch/tuner to mute between songs.
In my band we have a rack on stage by the keyboard player, which houses all our wireless gear (2 microphone, 1 bass, 1 guitar and dual IE monitoring), sound card , power conditioner, patch bays and rack tuner.
The rack tuner is mounted on the back of the rack, so I can see it all the time. It has two channels (one for bass - the other for guitar) and two switch pedals connected - one for switching channels and one for mute.
So for tuning or switching between instruments I will press the mute and/or channel switch accordingly - Works perfectly for the venues we are playing.
Been meaning to ask for a while, what sort of amp/signal processing are you using?
I suspected that the black hardware was something that you had added. You don't see too many 7ender models with black tuners. Nice touch.I could have chosen the black one, but the White Chrome Pearl finish was so much more stunning IRL than on pictures on the 7ender website.
All chrome hardware has been replaced for black chrome, and if I find an all-black pickguard or black Jazz Bass Special neck at a reasonable price, I might add that as well.
