Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

I caved and made a fat juicy lamb burger last night.
Wash delish.

I love lamb but after having it in the Middle East I’m spoiled and just find US and New Zealand lamb a distant choice.

 

[JJR58]

I love lamb but after having it in the Middle East I’m spoiled and just find US and New Zealand lamb a distant choice.

Understood Dave.
And i can relate being of Armenian decent.

 

[MCF]

Fooling with the 4OTF tonight a little and noticed if you lower the drive, but up the drive vol (no breakup, just clean), you can use the H/LPFs to fully tweak the tone. In other words, you have just a HPF or LPF or both if you want. (Only the drive side is run through the filters. The clean vol is your unaffected signal you can blend in as desired and does not go through the filters.) I can't believe how much I like this pedal.

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This may be one of the most useful bass pedals on the market. With Andy including both a HPF and a LPF, one can dial in to suit any venue, practice space, stage and then choose the tone. Modern tech is amazing.

 

[MCF]

Peter’s feeling better after getting some meds
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Excellent!

 

[MCF]

No. Should I?

I’ve become a firm believer in the benefits of a high pass filter, especially if you want mids to come through. The filter can tame the boominess. My Mesa TT 800 has one built in and once I learned to use it, I’ve become convinced I should get a pedal to use with my other amps.

 

[JIO]

Understood Dave.
And i can relate being of Armenian decent.

American/Armenian Alan Hovhaness is one of my favorite composers - and this my favorite symphony of his. I learned this (13:55) repeated theme on bass and much later learned that Jaco P was also fond of this symphony and most likely played the same melodic run. I was listening to a lot of Weather Report and '70s Miles at that time and wanted to use that phrase reformatted into a high energy "fusion" piece.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

why do the British drink warm beer?…..
https://youtube.com/shorts/pojvYRtEHPA?feature=share

 

[Stealth57]

Understood Dave.
And i can relate being of Armenian decent.

That makes sense. An al-ian. We’ve been spelling it wrong.

 

[Stealth57]

why do the British drink warm beer?…..
https://youtube.com/shorts/pojvYRtEHPA?feature=share

Joined a company in the mid 80s. I was introduced to senior staff, including the head of quality. Asked him where he previously worked given his English accent. He said Lucas Electric…I couldn’t help the short laugh.

 

[MCF]

Knew I could count on you!

Seriously Donnie. After getting George’s Bach, I’m telling everyone here to lookout for one and get it. The neck is amazing. Zero weak or dead spots. Super fast, narrow, and the perfect amount of flatness on the back of it. If you don’t like the pickups, swap them out. Refinish it if you want. But they’re really great Thunderbirds. I had no clue before.

 

[MCF]

And get Irv to create a NRR PG?

Yes.

 

[MCF]

I remember seeing footage of Keith recording the track and saying something along the lines of him probably being a better bass player than guitar player. I found an isolated track on YouTube, but there are a ton of examples of people playing that might be helpful.





I think the typical soapbar Tbird pickup in a little larger top to bottom than the Epi pickups, and the Epi pickups are longer in overall length so not a perfect drop in. I'm sure you can make Bart's fit with a little modification without needing to get too crazy. The Epi routes are definitely much deeper than Gibson sized pickups.

There is a Tbird pickup routing template on Reverb specifically made for Bart's, but works for Gibson pickups as well.

Guitar Building Templates Bartolini 4-String Vintage Gibson Bass pickup template-T4CBC Thunderbird Bass | Reverb

Thanks Andy.

 

[MCF]

That's a 'healthy' price for 1x15, but being a Mesa owner/user - I'm sure it sounds great.

I have the Subway 410. An amazing cab. Sounds great at any volume. The 115 is the darling of the industry right now. Having two with the Subway head of your choice is maybe the most versatile rig available these days. Not cheap. But pretty much all anyone would ever need for any situation.

 

[Engle]

Seriously Donnie. After getting George’s Bach, I’m telling everyone here to lookout for one and get it. The neck is amazing. Zero weak or dead spots. Super fast, narrow, and the perfect amount of flatness on the back of it. If you don’t like the pickups, swap them out. Refinish it if you want. But they’re really great Thunderbirds. I had no clue before.

They seem to get snapped up pretty quickly!

 

[RedVee]

This and the same time frame convertibles like Mike’s were the coolest Impalas, IMO.

We didn’t get any coupes or convertibles locally assembled, but some were available via certain dealers and converted to our rules when they arrived.
We didn’t get any local assembled Impalas until the 65 model as a 4 door hardtop, with the BelAir continuing as the pillared sedan. We didn’t get any V8s until the 1960 model, then it was the 283. When the Impalas came they were 327, even for the pillared sedan when it also became an Impala.
Our last model was the 1968 (beautiful cars) and they lasted on sale until 1970, the local cars had grown by then and had V8 options so they took over.
I’d still take a 68, 69, 70 1968 Impala in a heartbeat. Or it’s Pontiac Parisienne non identical twin.

 

[MCF]

I sympathize with you. We are at the latter stages with our lab Grady as well and every week we wonder if this will be the week. But the old boy keeps on going somehow, but you can see every couple of week he goes down a little more and you know that can't keep going. I can't see him making it into Spring. Yet I never thought he would still be around at this point. He's not in pain as far as we can tell and still enjoys some things, as much as a 14 yr old big dog can, but most days have some extra work involved. We're just glad when we close the day, we've had another one with him.
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Our oldest Cavalier, Romeo, is getting to that point. He’s such a sweet companion. Not sure how we’ll be able to handle the inevitable.

 

[MCF]

I had to route my Epi IV a little to get Chinabuckers to fit. They were too wide as is. Length wise they’re shorter but some chrome rings covered the excess space. View attachment 4950818

So we have an Emmy Award winner amongst us. Awesome!

Great Thunderbird! I bet is sounds awesome.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

We didn’t get any coupes or convertibles locally assembled, but some were available via certain dealers and converted to our rules when they arrived.
We didn’t get any local assembled Impalas until the 65 model as a 4 door hardtop, with the BelAir continuing as the pillared sedan. We didn’t get any V8s until the 1960 model, then it was the 283. When the Impalas came they were 327, even for the pillared sedan when it also became an Impala.
Our last model was the 1968 (beautiful cars) and they lasted on sale until 1970, the local cars had grown by then and had V8 options so they took over.
I’d still take a 68, 69, 70 1968 Impala in a heartbeat. Or it’s Pontiac Parisienne non identical twin.

We had a 69 327, the first non-Ford my dad bought. It was good, but had the off-idle hesitation most 69s had here from the new pollution controls.

 

[MCF]

I think Keith Richards is a much more accomplished musician than most folks realize, I watched something about him on Netflix a couple years ago and during one of the segments he was playing the bass - really well. I'm not at all surprised that he played on "Sympathy"

I think he played bass on more of the songs he wrote than many realize.

 

[MCF]

I measured the Barts and they matched chrome Tbird pickups in length and width.
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The plastic Tbird pickups are wider and longer:
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Epiphone soapbars are narrower and longer:
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If I was going to install Barts in an Epiphone Tbird IV, I would get a set of chrome Tbird trim rings. They appear to cover the longer route - just:
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Thanks Irv.