OK, what about a purple, plastic tug bar?
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Thunderbird Club
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
you’re so from the midwest….
Precisely why I'm sticking with wood. Spelling beyond four letters is pushing it for me.
Please don't come up with a 37 letter word for that too.
But you might need to try various locations for the tug bar. Everything adds up to something. I think you should come up with a tug bar jig for testing.
You would also have a cool song title to go with it. Who can't dance to "The Tug Bar Jig?" Bootie shaker and boot scooter if there ever was one.
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Thanks for posting!
Andy is a great player (he’s aged a bit since I last saw him, but haven’t we all) and he normally does excellent honest reviews. This one is probably the most thorough Eppi VP/60’s demo I’ve seen. He flogged the snot out of that thing for 20 minutes, picking/plucking/strumming/slapping/muting from the bridge to the neck.
In the video he said he’s only had the bass for about an hour but he loves it and thinks is a phenomenal bass for the price. I agree, by far the best new bass value out there in the sub $1000 category and a no brainer on the used market. I’ve had mine for a few years now and still haven’t found anything that beats it in its price point.
For some reason there’s a lot of four letter words in my vocabulary as well.
I wonder...... would the tone difference be greater or lesser depending on whether it is used, or just installed & un-used?
Was that when you were amazed that bending a string didn't pop off the headstock and kill the heckler in the audience like you'd hoped?
I wonder...... would the tone difference be greater or lesser depending on whether it is used, or just installed & un-used?
I have a case queen tugbar, an uninstalled prototype meant for the first pre-production Thunderbird. So long as the case is in the same room as its instrument, the instrument sounds incrementally better. I hadn't planned on selling it, but might be convinced to trade it for a 1963 Thunderbird.
I haven't been to NYC since a year before the Twin Towers were taken out.
I wonder if Bakelite would add another old school dimension
De rigueur on 50s basses!
I would think the tug bar would sound fuller if installed and unused, that’s how I plan to use mine if installed. That way it is free to resonate with the rest of the bass. If used, I suspect it would be a lot like palm muting the strings, your fingers on the tug bar would in essence mute the effect.I wonder...... would the tone difference be greater or lesser depending on whether it is used, or just installed & un-used?
Plastic, covered in purple silk. With chrome plated screws on the more modern pickup instruments to brighten them up a tad.
Sounds like this could be a trick question, but I'm going with "yes."I wonder...... would the tone difference be greater or lesser depending on whether it is used, or just installed & un-used?
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
She's got the voice. Beats me how old she is now. I hope she can still sound like that forever.
- Jun 30, 2010
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This Friday nights set lists for Bond Girl - 2 sets, 23 songs, 10 Bond songs, 3 'spy' songs, 2 full instrumentals/two partial instruments, one Doors song, one Bowie song and one new drummer.
Weather sez' clear that day... 'Bomb Cyclone'-fueled atmospheric river arrives later today...
Weather sez' clear that day... 'Bomb Cyclone'-fueled atmospheric river arrives later today...
