Thunderbird Club

[Instagator]

I never got sick drinking (I was nuts in my hippie days). Never hungover. One time I felt slightly queasy the next morning, so I went up the street, had some eggs (swimming in butter), grits (same), toast (more butter and jelly) and coffee, and I was fine. I knew guys who'd regularly spend Friday and Saturday night in a sleeping back curled around a Porcelain Hangover Disposal Unit. If that had happened to me, I'd have quit drinking then and there. (I hate puking with a passion.)

If you are going to drink hard..use peppermint schnapps. If you hurl at least your breath will still be fresh..

 

[Nocturnal]

last night at a gig at The Chaminade……latest craze around here….
https://youtube.com/shorts/6qrbLmFdM4A?feature=share

I hear those are amazing but have yet to try one. I REALLY want to try it because I really enjoy a nice Old Fashioned or Manhattan.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I really like the Salt Lick south of Austin. It's a dry county but you can bring your own. Just don't wear anything you need again before they are laundered. You will reek (lacking a better choice of words for strong but good smell) of smoked meat, which isn't necessarily a bad thing unless you are dating a vegan.

They opened two other locations as well.
Franklin's downtown is excellent.
I really miss Ruby's over by the drag.Excellent BBQ, traditional Texas hole in the wall BBQ decor, true Austin culture behind the counter - all the piercings, ink, dyed hair, spiked hair, etc. you could imagine. But after a few decades, they hung up the shingle.
Burger tex across the street had some amazing bulgogi burgers.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I gave up all red meat about 2 months ago, along with chicken and pork.
If i ever get the craving, it'll be lamb and or pork.
Was never really fan of bbq doused in sauce.

(Stands at attention, hat in hand over heart, out of respect for your loss)

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The 215M and 200s are different cabs, same size. The 200s has a center slot port all the way across, the 215M had a port along the right hand side that was the height of the cab.

same drivers?…

 

[Miles_ONeal]

same drivers?…

I'm driving. You want shotgun?

 

[Gaolee]

So are they light on the bottom, strong mids and bright highs?
Or are they bass heavy with neutral mids and crisp highs?

They are hard to describe. There's a lot of white in the sound, but it's not just static. If you lower them, they don't lose signal, but get more mid heavy. If you raise them up close to the strings, they are more scooped. They don't have a specific sound like a single coil or humbucker, but instead transmit the sound of the string and your playing in an uncolored way, with the modification of where they are relative to the strings. They don't have any magnetic field to speak of, so they don't dampen or affect the string vibrations at all. I put them in the fretless 'Bird because I thought they might give it a more upright like sound, but they sure didn't do that. They have a purity to the sound that doesn't make sense until you try it. Maybe hi-fi to a fault is a good way to describe them. Not right, but as close as I can get.

So, guaranteed you don't have anything that sounds at all like those. If you install them, don't let them touch anything metal. That shorts them out and makes them go silent. It doesn't hurt them, just makes them not work. One other aspect of them that's astonishing is how silent they are when you aren't playing. I'm not sure what it would take to get them to feed back, but I'm sure it would be heroic measures. I haven't sent them through any kind of funky signal chain, but I suspect they would do fine with pedals.

 

[JJR58]

(Stands at attention, hat in hand over heart, out of respect for your loss)

I'm not loosing any sleep over it.

 

[bobyoung53]

I only got sick drinking two times. Which is amazing considering.... Mogan David's "fortified wine" and the second was with gin. Didn't even drink a crazy amount of either. Never again for either. One was just awful and the other so sweet you couldn't get the sweet cut enough.

I only got sick a couple of times too.

 

[bobyoung53]

"Search and Destroy" was playing at Hopdoddy the other night as part of an excellent, eclectic collection of music. I need to met whoever puts their playlists together.

I bought both the newer Iggy mix first and then the older David Bowie mix on LP, I actually like the original better but they're both great.

 

[bobyoung53]

The silver face/earlier version is more desirable, but the circuit is the same AFAIK. Hell, for $200 I'd snag it. They aren't for everyone, but loads of people like them and have used them with great success.



The S vs M designation referred to the speakers they originally came with, S designating Sunn speakers, and M designating Sunn Magna speakers. V meant Cerwin Vega speakers. All the same cabinet, just what speakers were loaded in them.

Thank you, I couldn't figure it out. The 2000S's I had had JBL D-140's in them, they used to earthquake clubs. They were stock I'm pretty sure.

 

[dagrev]

this one’s up for sale, same cab….don’t really need another amp but……
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You have my permission, Chuck.
Please do a vid when you get it home.

 

[TBird1958]

I'm not loosing any sleep over it.

Fish, did I see fish on your list?

 

[dagrev]

Austin has several excellent BBQ places and a number of good ones. A few that aren't. Texas takes its BBQ seriously.

Another reason I'd like to visit there one day.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Another reason I'd like to visit there one day.

Austin rocks…used to go there for Dell business…… those folks really got it going on…

 

[Engle]

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.

Thanks man - gonna check that out!

 

[dagrev]

Oh, the first Genzler that was here, lost, went to Tx, came back, went back to Tx and then here again was delivered--after it was refused a few days ago and I was assured it would go back to seller. I'm taking it to the post office tomorrow. I now question anyone's intelligence who would use FedMess.

 

[Engle]

last night at a gig at The Chaminade……latest craze around here….
https://youtube.com/shorts/6qrbLmFdM4A?feature=share

A bong for your drink? Crazy!

 

[Engle]

They won't sound anything at all like anything you have ever played. They are very hard to describe. Absolutely transparent, perhaps.

So like EMGs?

 

[D.M.N.]

same drivers?…

No, Sunn originally used JBL as their top of the line speakers, so D130s, D140s, and the D15S (OEM D130s made for Sunn). Those were loaded in the 200s, 2000s, 1500s, and 1000s cabinets, as well as some of the other models depending on year. After 1970 they started offering options for speakers in catalogues, including EVs and Cerwin Vegas, and most of the base line cabinets started getting loaded with Sunn labelled speakers. Artists had been able to request speakers prior to this, such as Noel Redding who, IIRC, had his 2000s cabs loaded with Altecs. After around '72 they switched to the S, M, & V nomenclature, with Vegas being their default upgrade options.

Thank you, I couldn't figure it out. The 2000S's I had had JBL D-140's in them, they used to earthquake clubs. They were stock I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, most 2000s cabs came stock with JBL D140s. And they certainly do put out a lot of SPL. I still use mine regularly, here's the 2000s rig on stage earlier this month: