Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

I just got a great CD, demos and a few live cuts of what would have the been their fourth album (third between Raw Power maybe?) but they've been remastered, maybe remixed and sound really good. This stuff has been out there for years but the sound is so much better on this. 2022 Cleopatra records.

Love the Stooges. I'm always on the fence about remasters for this stuff. Like should it stay dirty.

 

[KaraQ]

I think the pot's bad.

I think that's the issue with the new jazz I bought as well......think I'm going with replacing a $1.25 pot before ripping everything out for a new pre-amp....


If you really want an actual Epiphone pot, I've seen a few people take out the stock stuff, maybe Reverb/eBay/TB classifieds could find someone like that?

 

[Stealth57]

I think that's the issue with the new jazz I bought as well......think I'm going with replacing a $1.25 pot before ripping everything out for a new pre-amp....


If you really want an actual Epiphone pot, I've seen a few people take out the stock stuff, maybe Reverb/eBay/TB classifieds could find someone like that?

Looked on eBay. Will check the others.

 

[GBassNorth]

Anyone know a source for OEM VP 500k pots? Going to replace the bridge volume pot on the VP. Seems that is the likely culprit. The ones installed say made in Korea. I know I could go CTS but my OCD whispers in my ear that they all should be the same.

I checked my pot supply late last night. Lots of Fender stuff that won’t work for you and a number of stacked and push pull pots , but unfortunately no Epiphone or Gibson pots. If you have to buy new be sure to match the resistance value, A or B pot type, threaded collar length and spline count of your existing pot. Take your old pot into Guitar Center and have their tech match it. Buy two, they’re dirt cheap and there’s always a chance you could fry one when soldering the grounds to the housing.

 

[icefly]

...... something new (and allegedly broken)......

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Ordered two pg´s (ivory and mintgreen), to try on this burgundy Squier.

Contemporary on right, is black or charcoal?

 

[GBassNorth]

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Ordered two pg´s (ivory and mintgreen), to try on this burgundy Squier.

Contemporary on right, is black or charcoal?

What, no black or tort?

 

[Nocturnal]

It's very mid century, slatted walls, antler chandeliers, a really cool old see through fridge for the beer, lots of old beer signs too - very fun, relaxed vibe lots of comfort food, I had Lobster Mac n cheese tonight



Not tea, a lovely mix of Gin, Vermouth and Campari, kinda bitter like an Orange peel, would have hated it as a kid, love it as an "adult"

I recently discovered the Negroni and really like it. A local sushi place makes a killer version of it.

I just got a great CD, demos and a few live cuts of what would have the been their fourth album (third between Raw Power maybe?) but they've been remastered, maybe remixed and sound really good. This stuff has been out there for years but the sound is so much better on this. 2022 Cleopatra records.

I just ordered that disc. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Bassmike62]

Geez...

Thinking about replacing the stock Goth pickups (which sound fine) with something that would bring it closer to the active EMGs on my other FenderBird, while staying passive (don't wanna get into preamp mods for this one). The obivous answer to that would be EMG TBHZs I guess...

Any other suggestions ?
Looking for modern-sounding humbuckers to fit my usual 80s rock covers, as opposed to vintage/old school 60-70s.

 

[icefly]

What, no black or tort?

Not biggest fan of black.
In fact, it's already switched to tortoise; I want to try other aesthetics

....

 

[Gaolee]

I love a good Kansas City BBQ sauce with almost anything. Arthur Bryant's and Gates still rule KC. I first ate there when I was in art-school in the mid '70s. Highly addictive. Once it's in your bloodstream - you're hooked! I just learned that Target stocks Gates! Woo-Hoo! (I usually order on-line)

Funny pic from '81 - dude on the far left still wearing bell-bottoms! It looks pretty much the same today. They had a Jukebox near the front door (looks to be behind Arthur - either that or a cigarette machine!) that always had R&B/Motown hits spinning when you got there. A "destination point" if ever in KC/MO. It's the real deal. AB only had this one location, whereas Gates has about 6 locations throughout greater KC.
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Having been to KC and had barbecue there, I can say that I'm not a sauce kind of person. Good barbecue doesn't need sauce, and they make good barbecue in Kansas City. If you like the sauce, fair enough. But it isn't necessary if you do it right. That's my absolutely correct and irrefutable opinion.

 

[Gaolee]

Love the Stooges. I'm always on the fence about remasters for this stuff. Like should it stay dirty.

Especially the Stooges. Funny thing. Iggy is from Michigan. I play in a dad band with a drummer who went to high school with Iggy. It's a claim to fame, kinda.

 

[Gaolee]

What, no black or tort?

Tort? He is a man of taste and distinction. Of course there's no tort. Salami is for sandwiches.

 

[GBassNorth]

Geez...

Thinking about replacing the stock Goth pickups (which sound fine) with something that would bring it closer to the active EMGs on my other FenderBird, while staying passive (don't wanna get into preamp mods for this one). The obivous answer to that would be EMG TBHZs I guess...

Any other suggestions ?
Looking for modern-sounding humbuckers to fit my usual 80s rock covers, as opposed to vintage/old school 60-70s.

I have a couple of Goths. One received a tone cap transplant and sounds fantastic. One received Bart pups and an Aggie OBP2 preamp and sounds fantastic and one is slated to go down a different path from the other two. Right now I’m leaning heavily towards a set of Aluma Bass Bar 4.0 pups for five string bass. They look to be a nearly drop in replacement for the stock Goth pups and should offer a sound I don’t already have in my lineup.

 

[bobyoung53]

Love the Stooges. I'm always on the fence about remasters for this stuff. Like should it stay dirty.

I'm like that too usually, this one sounds great. Most of this record is demos.

 

[GBassNorth]

Not biggest fan of black.
In fact, it's already switched to tortoise; I want to try other aesthetics

I gotta say, although I’m not a lover or hater of tort, I don’t like the look of it with a burgundy body. Black I do like, but with that color body I’m thinking a nice parchment (aged white or cream) guard would look sharp.

 

[Hondapunk]

I know there's some Sunn peeps here. Who's got the skinny ?
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[bobyoung53]

Especially the Stooges. Funny thing. Iggy is from Michigan. I play in a dad band with a drummer who went to high school with Iggy. It's a claim to fame, kinda.

Iggy started out as a drummer too. I saw them in 1969 at a place called The Boston Tea Party, they opened for Ten Years After, they were very good and professional unlike what you hear now, course I think it was their first real foray out of Michigan, Iggy was Iggy though, smearing himself with peanut butter and hitting himself with the mic, they didn't impress the hippies though . But I was a kid with no preconceptions and thought they were great, I still remember 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and Dave Alexander throwing his Jazz bass over the piles of Ten Years After's Marshalls behind him.....the audience groaned.

 

[TBird1958]

I recently discovered the Negroni and really like it. A local sushi place makes a killer version of it.

Pick up some decent Vermouth and Campari.....You already have some Empress Gin, that will make you a very Negroni at home!

 

[Stealth57]

I know there's some Sunn peeps here. Who's got the skinny ?
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Not sure the difference as I have the Concert Bass version. Looks like more tone control.

 

[Hondapunk]

Not sure the difference as I have the Concert Bass version. Looks like more tone control.

Is $200 bucks good for this unit ?