Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

Was looking at some distortion pedal postings over at the Spector club and saw this clip. Watching the first demo (about 1 minute long) I scratched my head and thought, this is possibly the best demo I’ve seen for stress testing the limits of a B string. Those poor strings are just getting bludgeoned to death as he beats his bass into submission. Sounds good, if that’s the type of distortion you’re after, but I gotta believe his tuning doesn’t hold for more than a couple of songs at that pace.


…overall it’s a pretty good review of different Dark Glass distortion pedals. I just have to look past the players style, which is about polar opposite of mine.

I can't help but think playing that hard would never happen had someone not seen someone else do it. Seems to be an observed and learned approach and not something one would naturally do. Most play harder than I do, but even then it's still a normal kind of thing, and not a beating the bass into submission. In the vids posted, V plays hard, but it seems normal and still very natural.

 

[icefly]

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

Contemporary on right, is black or charcoal?

So

Stock black


Brown Tortoise


Red Tortoise


Mintgreen


Ivory


Guess I´ll stick on ivory.

 

[GBassNorth]

I can't help but think playing that hard would never happen had someone not seen someone else do it. Seems to be an observed and learned approach and not something one would naturally do. Most play harder than I do, but even then it's still a normal kind of thing, and not a beating the bass into submission. In the vids posted, V plays hard, but it seems normal and still very natural.

I’ve noticed that Veronica does play hard, but she’s down around the bridge where you have to use a bit more force to activate the strings. This guy is ripping the strings off all the way up at the neck pickup.

 

[GBassNorth]

So

Stock black


Brown Tortoise


Red Tortoise


Mintgreen


Ivory


Guess I´ll stick on ivory.

Ivory looks best of the bunch, but parchment would look killer on that bass.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Well that’s just showing off

What was he waiting for?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Came across this old post. What was she thinking?FS: BaCH Cherry Non Reverse Thunderbird

I'm guessing she wasn't.

 

[MCF]

I

So

Stock black


Brown Tortoise


Red Tortoise


Mintgreen


Ivory


Guess I´ll stick on ivory.

I like the ivory.

 

[Gaolee]

Raquel Welch died. RIP

My productivity this morning just plummeted.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

White VP sighting in NY.
I know some folks are looking..

NOT LOOKING, DANGIT!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I can't help but think playing that hard would never happen had someone not seen someone else do it. Seems to be an observed and learned approach and not something one would naturally do. Most play harder than I do, but even then it's still a normal kind of thing, and not a beating the bass into submission. In the vids posted, V plays hard, but it seems normal and still very natural.

I dunno. My natural tendency is to smite the heck out of an instrument. Maybe that comes from starting by trying to play hard rock on an acoustic with a warped neck. I approached electric guitar and bass that way, and had to learn on each to tone it down for most music. And just hearing that kind of metal invites bludgeoning a bass.

 

[dagrev]

So

Stock black


Brown Tortoise


Red Tortoise


Mintgreen


Ivory


Guess I´ll stick on ivory.

If you put tort on it I will "unfriend" you. Wait, there's no unfriend button... Friends don't let friends tort.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

So

Stock black


Brown Tortoise


Red Tortoise


Mintgreen


Ivory


Guess I´ll stick on ivory.

A dark red might look cool, but of these, ivory is probably the best.

 

[bobyoung53]

took this bad boy to practice last night where we worked on Cleary’s live arrangement of King Floyd’s “Groove Me”……sheer joy…
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Does Ampeg and Markbass ever argue?

 

[bobyoung53]

Here’s a nice rare white Gibby in Brooklyn…
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Decent price considering how few of these ever hit the market.

Those things yellow too?

 

[bobyoung53]

Was looking at some distortion pedal postings over at the Spector club and saw this clip. Watching the first demo (about 1 minute long, you’ll need to go to the very beginning of the YouTube clip to see it) I scratched my head and thought, this is possibly the best demo I’ve seen for stress testing the limits of a B string. Those poor strings are just getting bludgeoned to death as he beats his bass into submission. Sounds good, if that’s the type of distortion you’re after, but I gotta believe his tuning doesn’t hold for more than a couple of songs at that pace.


…overall it’s a pretty good review of different Dark Glass distortion pedals. I just have to look past the players style, which is about polar opposite of mine.

Yeah, most of that stuff isn't my cup-o-tea either but that guy is a very good player and makes that bass sound very good at times, too much distortion at times though. Man those Spector basses are cheap!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Does Ampeg and Markbass ever argue?

not as bad as Markbass and Ashdown…

 

[KaraQ]

A little bit of Whitebird, but actually on Thunderbird Thursday for a change

 

[Gaolee]

If you put tort on it I will "unfriend" you. Wait, there's no unfriend button... Friends don't let friends tort.

Exactly. Salami is for sandwiches.

 

[TBird1958]

The shape of my BaCH is very close to that of my ‘21 NR. The BaCH body is slightly larger though.

Not sure what was going on with that PG on V’s.

Speaking of Veronica, while looking at BaCH threads, I came across this quote from her: “For the $$$ I think they're great basses, I'd never gig with a real '60s Gibson but have no qualms about taking my BaCH's out, the Lull pick upis an easy mod that gives the bass that vintage Gibson growl - Love it!” I wonder if she’ll not gig her 60’s reverse or if she’s going to change her mind now that she has one…

There's only one venue that we play I'd consider taking the '64 out to, 7 Cedars in Sequim, WA, it'll never go to a small stage, our new singer is far too exuberant in her movements and has already collided with me several times at rehearsals. I don't usually take the '76s to smaller venues either.

 

[Nocturnal]

Came across this old post. What was she thinking?FS: BaCH Cherry Non Reverse Thunderbird

Wonder what she thinks after selling the 8 string NR she had as well.