Thunderbird Club

[bobyoung53]

They are for some, we can't all play pencilnecks.

Pencil neck geek! Try a new NR? Those necks are deeper and wider than Reverse T-Birds, at least mine, I think the nut is 1.6.

 

[Stealth57]

EDIT: All my stuff is for sale in the classifieds.....

I thought the rule was burn them so the remaining gear is more valuable due to supply and demand.

 

[bobyoung53]

I thought the rule was burn them so the remaining gear is more valuable due to supply and demand.

I think it got changed to give it away to Thunderbird club members.

 

[GBassNorth]

I think Fender necks look bad on T-Birds period, sorry, John.

I’d have to agree, I think this P Bass neck looks waaay Bad on this bird!

 

[bobyoung53]

I’d have to agree, I think this P Bass neck looks waaay Bad on this bird!
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That one does look good, but it's an exception.

 

[Gaolee]

I tend to like baseball bats, but it is about the shape more than the size. A wide, flat neck like a wide Fender neck isn't as good as a round neck like a Thunderbird. The upright has a log of a neck, and I love it. Bolt-on Thunderbirds had big, round necks for a while, and I like those a lot. A soft V neck is even better, but those are vanishingly rare.

 

[JIO]

is that the place across the street from the elephants? what’s the place called, if that one there was a great bassist last I went there (pre-covid)…..she was playing an old P into a V4 and her tone delish….
great pics G!

Not sure what "the elephants" refers to... across the street is a big parking lot and a Golden Gate Transit building. It's on the land side of Bridgeway. You would easily miss it driving by - I've passed it many hundreds of times on my bike over the years. I just learned of it recently.

 

[JJR58]

I tend to like baseball bats, but it is about the shape more than the size. A wide, flat neck like a wide Fender neck isn't as good as a round neck like a Thunderbird. The upright has a log of a neck, and I love it. Bolt-on Thunderbirds had big, round necks for a while, and I like those a lot. A soft V neck is even better, but those are vanishingly rare.

And, vive la différence!!!
I like em all except for the V shape.
My hand could not get comfortable with it.
And yet, playing an upright seems so natural to me.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Not sure what "the elephants" refers to... across the street is a big parking lot and a Golden Gate Transit building. It's on the land side of Bridgeway. You would easily miss it driving by - I've passed it many hundreds of times on my bike over the years. I just learned of it recently.

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yep, that’s it….
these….

 

[JIO]

yep, that’s it….
these….
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Oh yah, I've seen it so many times it's invisible!

 

[dagrev]

I think I read somewhere that Entwistle thought the original necks were too small or something.

Likely was worried about the headstock doing that thing that they do so well...!

 

[GonePlaid]

That's what long instrument cables (or wireless rigs) are for.

We're almost always within ~12'-dance floor-of the audience. With a 25' cable, I'd be at the first table.

 

[dagrev]

 

[GonePlaid]

"Yeah, I know a couple of Ed Sheerans. You mean the guy at the gas station or the one who owns a hardware store? Oh, wait. The homeless one near the VA hospital?"

I'll use that.

 

[GonePlaid]

What year is your T-Bird? The only ones I ever see are the ones with the wood edges like this?
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1967. I'm not used to the ones with wood edges.

 

[GonePlaid]

Victor is also on the "there are no wrong notes" train. In many cases you can just treat it as a passing note and do something with it. Yesterday during rehearsal before church, we got several key changes (different leader, different vocal range). The easiest one was transposing from E to A; I just played everything one string higher. Until I didn't.[1] But I finished that verse five half steps low, and it sounded fine and intentional.

[1] This is a song we play frequently; I know it by heart. I got a little too into it and my muscle memory went into Total Recall mode.

BTDT. 'Cept not in church.
One of our guitarists sings "Knock on Wood'. He does it in A. I've always played it in E. Still do part of the time(oops).

 

[bobyoung53]

Likely was worried about the headstock doing that thing that they do so well...!

It was about the necks, I looked it up after I posted that, he thought the necks were too small, I'm the opposite.

• The bridge is positioned a sixteenth of an inch forward of where it is on the stock Thunderbird. And I put Fender necks on because the Thunderbird necks were too thin on top. From November 1975, Guitar Player interview"

 

[GonePlaid]

I believe that’s Uranium

Not my anium.

 

[GonePlaid]

I think I read somewhere that Entwistle thought the original necks were too small or something.

Well, he was 'The Ox'.

 

[PaleAngel_90]

What do they expect from an alien?

Which alien?