Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

yeah, and has a river going right through it and out to the ocean……floods this time of year are common but not this bad….
the SS Palo Alto a 1919 built concrete (steel was a very prized commodity) ship that was used.as a liberty ship in WWII was docked at the Rio del Mar (about 5 miles south from Capitola) wharf where it served as a restaurant for decades…
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was reduced to this in 2017…
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the “Pacific” can be pretty gnarly…..

I used to crab and fish off the concrete boat back in the mid 1970’s (50years ago!) and it was a pretty rusted up crumbling mess back then. Visited it in 2014 but it was closed to foot traffic then and didn’t look a whole lot better than the 2017 demise. Not sure when they closed it to foot traffic, but all things considered, it lasted pretty long for a ship that’s been docked for nearly 100 years and not maintained for at least 50 of those years.

As you said the Pacific (along the US west coast) can be pretty gnarly, especially north of point conception. I have ocean going buddies that don’t even think twice about boating to Hawaii or Panama but cringe if asked to head up to San Francisco. Apparently it’s a very different ocean north of the point.

 

[Stealth57]

Here's Julia playing some Rocco Prestia bass lines.

TOP is the tops. Can’t wait until they play this year somewhere local. I know Mic Gillette’s (RIP) wife and was promised an intro and back stage pass.

 

[GBassNorth]

I might when I talk to my sales guy again. Might stick with the 45-105s. I wouldn't think that .005 on 2 strings woulda made that much difference, but who knows(other than "The Shadow")?

Interesting. I ran EBCF on my embassy for about a month with no issues. Don’t recall the gauge, just whatever the local GC had in stock. Used standard tuning and as always did a full sharp tuning for the first night, followed by a stretch (lifting each string a bit less than an inch about 10 times at the 12th fret. Then tuned to pitch, set the intonation, set the break angles, tuned again and tweaked intonation if needed and set the break angles again. Worked fine until I took it all apart a month later. Had about the lowest action I’ve ever achieved on any bass and stayed rock solid for that one month period.

 

[JJR58]

Well.
The gig report on the Epi Embassy will have to wait 'til at least next Sunday(1/15).
I expected the new strings [EBCFs] to take awhile to settle/stretch in, but it seemed every day they'd go a little flat and they'd been on over a week. So. Tuning them up-again-this morning, They just wouldn't hold pitch. That's when I saw the claw/tailpiece was pulling outta the body. (Not sumpin' ya normally look for on a "new" bass)
Now, this bass was a demo, but with all the warranties, etc., as if it was new(I couldn't see anything 'wrong' with it -initially). Got on the horn with SW right away. They're gonna send me a new one, but it prolly won't get here 'til Monday. Then I'll send back the NFG one(they're sending a return label).
Too bad I can't keep the pups. Oh, well. LSTYD.

Well crap! At least SW is handling the situation, but i feel ya.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I used to crab and fish off the concrete boat back in the mid 1970’s (50years ago!) and it was a pretty rusted up crumbling mess back then. Visited it in 2014 but it was closed to foot traffic then and didn’t look a whole lot better than the 2017 demise. Not sure when they closed it to foot traffic, but all things considered, it lasted pretty long for a ship that’s been docked for nearly 100 years and not maintained for at least 50 of those years.

As you said the Pacific (along the US west coast) can be pretty gnarly, especially north of point conception. I have ocean going buddies that don’t even think twice about boating to Hawaii or Panama but cringe if asked to head up to San Francisco. Apparently it’s a very different ocean north of the point.

used to walk onto the "Cement Ship" in the early 90's....had already been closed as a restaurant but you were still allowed onboard..

 

[D.M.N.]

Since we haven’t had hardly any rain over the last year and nothing like a normal winter for well over 5 years, I think a lot of us forgot what winter storms can be like. But I think climate change will give these storms more kick in the coming years, so I hope we can prepare. I live very near the bay, just south of SFO, and, while they are building up the levee, I don’t see how that helps if the water is coming down and has no room in the bay to go, especially during high tide. There’s a couple “creeks” that pass by me each a couple of blocks away on either side of my house, which drain into the bay, and those were rather high during the Saturday storm and even after that rain stopped up until it started up again.

Hell, the LA River had rapids in it yesterday, and it's normally little more than a trickle...

 

[JIO]

yeah, and has a river going right through it and out to the ocean……floods this time of year are common but not this bad….
the SS Palo Alto a 1919 built concrete (steel was a very prized commodity) ship that was used.as a liberty ship in WWII was docked at the Rio del Mar (about 5 miles south from Capitola) wharf where it served as a restaurant for decades…
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was reduced to this in 2017…
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the “Pacific” can be pretty gnarly…..

Oh wow - I didn't realize that was a ship - and a concrete one at that! Crazy. That's a really nice photograph documenting its demise. If there was some way of making it safe - they could build a shipwreck themed restaurant around it. (I know, sorta' macabre concept...)

 

[JIO]

- Ooook, you´re going well
- Nobody will notice that
- If I slowly increase master volume, will be unnoticeable in the mix

The engineer left it in there to f' with us over the years.

 

[JIO]

Imo, that's how it should have been referred to from the beginning, it might've been taken more seriously


Some water-news from the Sacramento area.....







Wind and rain was bad enough last night I worked (Wed/Thurs) we weren't allowed to pull doubles or empty trailers, only loaded single trailers

Hope you and yours are ok - I know that area got it pretty bad.

 

[Gaolee]

they added this one to the song list for tomorrow..
forgotten how hip this guy were/are….

That puts me in the mind of this one:

It's a blast on upright bass.

 

[JJR58]

That puts me in the mind of this one:

It's a blast on upright bass.

Always loved them!

 

[Thumper]

Always loved them!

I was always sad they didn't release more music

 

[dagrev]

Usually. I tuned it up to a 'sharp' G, D, A, E, etc. Not a full 1/2 step. I will be checking the claw on the new one. Unfortunately I may have wiped out the EBCFs messing with this one. We'll see.

I need to have a good look at the VPs.

 

[Gaolee]

Hell, the LA River had rapids in it yesterday, and it's normally little more than a trickle...

You mean there was actually water in the LA concrete dry drainage ditch? I have seen a little bit of puddling in it, but usually not much more than that.

 

[JIO]

I would rock a blue velvet Thunderbird.

Kyle and Laura were sooo young and pretty then! I just watched a "Making of Elephant Man" doc last night - really good. Lynches 1st real studio director job after Eraserhead. He was hired by Sr producer... Mel Brooks! That's a great film also, based on a true story.



Then their was a broadway version a certain David Bowie stared in -

 

[dagrev]

Here's Julia playing some Rocco Prestia bass lines.

Cool!

 

[dagrev]

That puts me in the mind of this one:

It's a blast on upright bass.

That's one of those songs that is always one of the top 10 rattling around in my head. Maybe its not the song....

 

[Thumper]

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That's one of those songs that is always one of the top 10 rattling around in my head. Maybe its not the song....

It's a really fun bassline to play, especially the outro - It's on our setlist

 

[JIO]

Always loved them!

Me too - big fan. My high school combo played Funk 49. The BL/keyboardist/lead singer had a nasal-y voice so he got Walsh pretty close. Because of that, he also was accurate on CCR songs which we also did. It would start grating on the rest of the songs though...

 

[STR8 UP BASS]

Hey fellow Thunderbird friends, I put this up for sale and I thought it would only make sense to make this club aware. I bought it from flyingpigsound(TB member) a little over a year ago. It's beautiful and is a winner in terms of weight, tone, playability! PM me if interested.

For Sale - Custom Finish Epiphone Pelham Blue Thunderbird Vintage Pro Bass