Thunderbird Club

[Mike.C.]

Visiting family in Apache Junction, AZ. And now missing my birds.

 

[PaleAngel_90]

I confess to dumping several when I first did a good stringless cleaning on the '76. Learned my lesson...

What was the lesson?

 

[Hondapunk]

Triumph Thunderbird perhaps ? I wouldn't mind.

 

[Hondapunk]

Oops forgot the pic Doh

 

[bobyoung53]

I see he was fighting neck dive as well. The trick is to hold it vertically.

He said there is significant body dive, not neck dive. But it rips through that Marshall.

 

[bobyoung53]

View attachment 4865349 Visiting family in Apache Junction, AZ. And now missing my birds.

That looks a lot like Peru.

 

[bobyoung53]

Thats what I thought. Modified Epi body.



I did it the first time I changed strings on my 76. Years later I did it again because I wasn't paying attention. Since then the blue painters tape has kept me from being a total idiot, at least in that area.

I keep them laying down now, actually do it with all my basses, it's easier. I had a hell of a time with the two point on my EB4-L, all the saddle threads are stripped from setting the action with it tuned up I think.

 

[BklynKen]

He said there is significant body dive, not neck dive. But it rips through that Marshall.

That's Paul Gilbert. He could rock that.

 

[bobyoung53]

That's Paul Gilbert. He could rock that.

Did he really play like that? I just found it on Google, it did have his name though.

 

[bobyoung53]

Wow, you're right.


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[BklynKen]

Wow, you're right.


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I don't know him to play bass, especially like that, but he's an amazing guitarist.

 

[bobyoung53]

I don't know him to play bass, especially like that, but he's an amazing guitarist.

That is amazing, I play upright and what he's doing there is unbelievable, an upright shredder!

 

[TBird1958]

View attachment 4865349 Visiting family in Apache Junction, AZ. And now missing my birds.

Des Moines has one of those too, not named for the bass however, the #2 runway of Seatac is directly beneath it - Nothing quite like a 727 or a DC-8 at 105% on takeoff. I don't miss those days much.

 

[icefly]

Finally found a cool 70's song to learn and play on TBird; but sorry for bad camera angle

 

[Stealth57]

Des Moines has one of those too, not named for the bass however, the #2 runway of Seatac is directly beneath it - Nothing quite like a 727 or a DC-8 at 105% on takeoff. I don't miss those days much.

Leather bar era?

 

[PhR75]

That is amazing, I play upright and what he's doing there is unbelievable, an upright shredder!

Hmm, are you sure it isn't just miming? For laughs. The track sounds like an electric bass with rounds (which I'm sure he played himself).

 

[PaleAngel_90]

Finally found a cool 70's song to learn and play on TBird; but sorry for bad camera angle

That's your channel?

 

[Nocturnal]

View attachment 4865349 Visiting family in Apache Junction, AZ. And now missing my birds.

You are sort of in my neck of the woods but I am little further south of AJ. Perfect weather for a visit.

 

[bobyoung53]

Hmm, are you sure it isn't just miming? For laughs. The track sounds like an electric bass with rounds (which I'm sure he played himself).

I think it's real, watch him shut the pedal off right at the end, you can get things to sound like almost anything nowadays, plus if he's miming he's VERY good at miming. It's also easy to get metal flats to sound like round wounds, especially with heaps of distortion. He's playing in all the correct positions on the neck too. I used to play upright through an SVT with a mag pickup and it sounded like an electric.


What Happens When a Rock Guitarist Shreds an Acoustic Bass?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Easy fix: don't do that(slide).

Blasphemer.