Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

one has to roll off the neck pup and tone completely to get a J bass to start honking….a setting/tone many basses just cannot support….
if adjusted the way most people adjust their Birds on this forum…either all dimed or all dimed with bridge pup off or barely on, J basses sound like this…

One of the best sounding Js to me is Mike Levine (from Canada's best band). You have to get half way through before the bass comes in. The guitars sound thin...but the bass is wonderfully thick and bassy.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was fascinated to learn relatively recently that the bubonic plague is still around, just in small numbers and easily cured.

Untreated, it’s likely to kill. Treated, there’s s low chance of death. (Read somewhere recently.) i hear about a few cases now & then, usually via NPR.
Fortunately, Thunderbirds have a natural immunity.

 

[PillO]

I was fascinated to learn relatively recently that the bubonic plague is still around, just in small numbers and easily cured.

Yersinia Pestis. Still carried by rats. But we stopped killing the cats that killed the rats.

 

[PhR75]

One of the best sounding Js to me is Mike Levine (from Canada's best band)

I didn't know Mike Levine played in Max Webster....

Speaking of Canadian Jazz Bass players, Paul Harwood had a great sound in Mahogany Rush.

I love Jaco's sound too, especially on "Bright Size Life" and whenever there's more Acoustic 360/361 than DI dialled in.

Geddy on "Digital Man" and "Spirit Of Radio". Larry Graham on Betty Davis' debut. Dougie Rauch on (Buzzy Linhart's) "Music". Lee Sklar on Cobham's "Spectrum". John Paul Jones on "The Song Remains The Same". Hugh Hopper on Gilgamesh's "Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into".

 

[PillO]

Population control?

Wars were at least as effective...

 

[Miles_ONeal]

one has to roll off the neck pup and tone completely to get a J bass to start honking….a setting/tone many basses just cannot support….
if adjusted the way most people adjust their Birds on this forum…either all dimed or all dimed with bridge pup off or barely on, J basses sound like this…

They sound like distorted guitars. Got it!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The death toll of the Plague is widely disputed. Both modern and medieval estimates have been called into question. But the fact of the matter is, if people back then had bothered to develop antibiotics, many/most of those deaths could have been avoided.

Hence the wide range.

 

[PillO]

One of the best sounding Js to me is Mike Levine (from Canada's best band). You have to get half way through before the bass comes in. The guitars sound thin...but the bass is wonderfully thick and bassy.

I didn't know Mike Levine played in Max Webster....

Speaking of Canadian Jazz Bass players, Paul Harwood had a great sound in Mahogany Rush.

I love Jaco's sound too, especially on "Bright Size Life" and whenever there's more Acoustic 360/361 than DI dialled in.

Geddy on "Digital Man" and "Spirit Of Radio". Larry Graham on Betty Davis' debut. Dougie Rauch on (Buzzy Linhart's) "Music". Lee Sklar on Cobham's "Spectrum". John Paul Jones on "The Song Remains The Same". Hugh Hopper on Gilgamesh's "Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into".

 

[Engle]

Noticed this on eBay. Chances are it’s a heavy beast:
rare Gibson Les Paul Bass Les Paul base head broken repair goods | eBay

 

[PhR75]

But he knows too that Max Webster is the best Canadian band ever.

 

[PillO]

But he knows too that Max Webster is the best Canadian band ever.

 

[Gaolee]

Where’s our flip phone folks to defend fuzzy photos?

Some of us are just a bit incompetent when it comes to taking good photos. There's a big reason I don't generally sell anything on Reverb or Ebay or anywhere like that. Lousy pictures. That, and I almost never sell anything anyway.

 

[GBassNorth]

Close but no cigar…
Welcome to the New Gibson Brands
…no bass pickup offerings
How hard would it have been to offer a ProBucker or a Tbird+ pickup, heck even a Gibson SG pickup might interest a few people.

 

[Gaolee]

The "normal" J Bass 'honk' became popular(Jaco?), especially with jazz guys, so some people(definitely not me)think that's a "good" sound(again not me). I've heard J's sound great. And I've heard them-and others-sound, to me, like hammered . As previously mentioned, I like a bass to sound like A BASS! I know, weird.

I hate J honk. Almost as much as I hate J whine. Burp is OK.

 

[GonePlaid]

Noticed this on eBay. Chances are it’s a heavy beast:
rare Gibson Les Paul Bass Les Paul base head broken repair goods | eBay

Needs a better translator.

 

[Gaolee]

I didn't know Mike Levine played in Max Webster....

Speaking of Canadian Jazz Bass players, Paul Harwood had a great sound in Mahogany Rush.

I love Jaco's sound too, especially on "Bright Size Life" and whenever there's more Acoustic 360/361 than DI dialled in.

Geddy on "Digital Man" and "Spirit Of Radio". Larry Graham on Betty Davis' debut. Dougie Rauch on (Buzzy Linhart's) "Music". Lee Sklar on Cobham's "Spectrum". John Paul Jones on "The Song Remains The Same". Hugh Hopper on Gilgamesh's "Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into".

Funny thing about that. I hate Jaco's tone for the most part. Yeah, I said that. But I love the sounds I can get from a 360 stack. Don't drive it into farting out and it sounds great. Jaco drove it into fart territory for the most part.

 

[JJR58]

Noticed this on eBay. Chances are it’s a heavy beast:
rare Gibson Les Paul Bass Les Paul base head broken repair goods | eBay

One of my favorite basses ever.
But who knows what kinda shape its really in.
And a feed back of 63%

 

[JJR58]

Funny thing about that. I hate Jaco's tone for the most part. Yeah, I said that. But I love the sounds I can get from a 360 stack. Don't drive it into farting out and it sounds great. Jaco drove it into fart territory for the most part.

His playing and tone with Joni Mitchell wasn't like that.
Even with Weather Report.

 

[GonePlaid]

I think you need to wind your calendar...

I can't do that. I'm using mine to drain pasta.

 

[JJR58]

I can't do that. I'm using mine to drain pasta.